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Monument to Drazen Petrovic
Vasko Lipovac1994 - 1995
The Olympic Museum
Lausanne, Switzerland
Sculpture made in honour of Drazen Petrovic, considered as one of the most famous European basketball players. A Yugoslav and Croatian professional, he initially achieved success playing professional basketball in Europe in the 1980s before joining the American NBA in 1989. Petrović's life and career were cut short by a car accident in Germany when he was 28, in 1993.
The sculpture is a complex combination of a vertical rectangle of 16 stripes with the relief of Petrovic's figures, a marble ball and a circle, on the ground, with his shadows. The sight of Petrovic in action was immortalised by Lipovac in this dynamic sculptural composition.
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Details
- Title: Monument to Drazen Petrovic
- Creator Lifespan: 14 June 1931 - 4 July 2006
- Creator Nationality: Croatian
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Split, Croatia
- Creator Birth Place: Kotor, Montenegro
- Date Created: 1994 - 1995
- Location Created: Croatia
- Sculptor and painter: Vasko Lipovac
- Physical Dimensions: w3100 x h3000 x d250 cm (Complete)
- Collection information: Mr Juan Antonio Samaranch, the International Olympic Committee President at the time, expressed his wish to erect a monument to Drazen Petrovic in Olympic Park in Lausanne. He chose Lipovac’s sculpture from six sculptures by famous Croatian artists.
- Artistic school or movement: At the end of high school in Kotor, he settled down in Zagreb, Croatia, and entered the Academy of Applied Arts in 1950. He took sculpture courses with Kosta Angeli Radovani and graduated in painting with Željko Hegedušic in 1955. He then worked in the studio of Krsto Hegedušic, where he found the opportunity to explore his own artistic world within the contemporary movements of European and world art, which were very extensive and fruitful in the 1950s. In a period of such creative force, Vasko Lipovac created his own world in the rich diversity of geometrical and anthropological humanistic reciprocity, nurturing a structural visual plausibility in sculpture and painting. After 1967, Lipovac worked and lived in Split in Croatia, where he produced numerous works such as cycles of paintings, graphics, watercolours, sculptures and painted sculptures. Lipovac won the artistic contest organised by the IOC to honour the basketball player Drazen Petrovic in 1995.
- Type: Sculpture
- Rights: International Olympic Committee, 2003, ©IOC/G.Peter
- Medium: Sculpture made of Sivec white marble and stainless steel
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