Picelj Ivan

Ivan Picelj was born in Okucani, Croatia in 1924 and died in Zagreb in 2011. He studied at the Zagreb Academy of Arts 1943-1946. In 1951, Picelj turned to abstract painting and also joined in founding the experimental atelier group “Exat 51”, and the international movement “New Tendencies” in 1961. In 1962 he started a periodical entitled “A”. Since 1952 he has participated in a large number of group exhibitions including “Salon des realites nouvelles”, Paris, 1952; “From Malevitch to Tomorrow”, USA (travelling), 1960; “Contemporary Yugoslav Painting and Sculpture”, Tate Gallery, London, 1961; “New Tendencies 1”, Zagreb, 1961; “New Tendencies 2”, Zagreb, 1963; “The Responsive Eye”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1965; “Art Today”, Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, 1965; “Art and Movement”, Musee d’art Contemporain, Montreal, 1967; “Constructive Art – Elements and Principles”, Nuernberg Biennale, 1969; “Printed Art”, MOMA, New York, 1980. Principal one-man shows: 1959, Denise Rene, Paris; 1962, MUO, Zagreb; 1966, GSU, Zagreb; 1965, Howard Wise Gallery, New York; 1969 Galleria del Cavallino, Venice; 1970, Jacques Baruch Gallery, Chicago; 1974, Galleria Method, Bergamo; 1978, Sebastian Gallery, Dubrovnik; 1982 and 1986 Denise Rene, Paris; 1994, Studio D Gallery, Zagreb. He lived and worked in Zagreb where he died on 22 February 2011.