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Sarajevo 1984, artistic poster.The mountain
Dzevad Hozo1983
The Olympic Museum
Lausanne, Switzerland
The original of this poster was produced by etching. Plastic forms combining a point, two rectangles and a semi-circle. In the centre, red and aggressive lines are thrown as a pair of skis colliding with each other, as a vision of who is going off headstrong, hypnotised by his ski tips constantly crossing each other. Around are quieter spaces, two dark walls, and, above, a golden discus as a sign of hope.
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- Title: Sarajevo 1984, artistic poster.The mountain
- Creator Lifespan: 10 May 1938
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Birth Place: Užice, Yugoslavia (now Serbia)
- Date Created: 1983
- Physical Dimensions: w620 x h850 cm (Complete)
- Painter: Dzevad Hozo
- Description: Printing: 35/80. Caption: “XIV Olympic Winter Games Sarajevo 1984 Yugoslavia”. Signed and dated: Hozo 83 lower right.
- Collection information: At the 1984 Winter Games in Sarajevo, the Organising Committee produced a portfolio of original graphic works by calling on a number of illustrious artists. Invited to participate in the “Art and Sport” series, Dzevad Hozo drew his representation of a mountain.
- Artistic school or movement: Dževad Hozo graduated from high school in Bihac and started art history studies at the University of Belgrade. He interrupted those studies in order to attend the courses at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. He graduated in 1963 and followed a special course for art teaching with Rike Debenjak.He was an independent artist until 1973 when he became the head of the graphic department of the newly inaugurated Academy of Fine Arts of Sarajevo. He took part in the design of the “Collegium Artisticum”, a gallery named after a progressive art movement in the late 1940s and founded in 1975 as the gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s three art associations – the Association of Artists (ULUBIH), Association of Applied Arts and Design (ULUPUBIH) and Association of Architects (AABIH). He was the author of the technical manual “Umjetnosti multiorginala” (The Art of the Multioriginals), which had become obligatory reading at a number of fine arts academies. He became a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1981. He was the creator of one of the artistic posters made for the 1984 Olympic Games in Sarajevo. During the war (1992-1995) he stayed in Sarajevo at his workplace, learning and producing graphics in spite of what was going on around him. He had over 40 individual exhibitions in the country and around the world.Through his style and his research, Hozo related to the trend of lyrical abstraction but in a restrained and contained way. In a formal abstraction, he looked for the effects of materials, where shadows and contrasts are moving.
- Type: Poster
- Rights: International Olympic Committee, 2004, ©IOC/G.Peter
- Medium: Print on paper
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