Monograph, 1998.
ISBN 953-6181-88-6
80 pages, 60 b/w and colour images, 28 x 22 cm
Bilingual (Croatian / English), softcover
Publisher: Meandar & SCCA
Biblioteka VAL, Visual Arts Library
Editor: Jadranka Vinterhalter
Authors: Spomenka Nikitović, Jadranka Vinterhalter, Darko Šimičić

It is the first monograph about the prominent artist Mladen
Stilinović, after being active on the Croatian art scene for almost 30
years.

The monograph about Mladen Stilinović is the result of several
years of effort by the Soros Center for Contemporary Art – Zagreb in
documenting the work of contemporary Croatian artists.
Spomenka Nikitović, an art historian, studied the activity of Mladen
Stilinović and selected and described some twenty of his major
works. The artist’s documentation was compiled by Darko Šimičić,
who has known Stilinović personally since 1978 and who has
followed his work at close quarters.

As the first monograph has resulted from the previously compiled
comprehensive documentation, with some understandable revision
and amendment of the text, especially regarding the description of
Mladen Stilinović’s new work created after 1995, it has retained the
structure of the comprehensive documentation. It begins with an
introductory text on the visual activity of Mladen Stilinović and then
goes on to describe and analyse eighteen selected works from his
opus ranging from the earliest works to the latest one-man
exhibition in the Josip Račić Studio in Zagreb, held from January to
February 1997. The monograph ends with documentation on the
artist.

Mladen Stilinović (1947 – 2016) was one of the most prominent
Croatian contemporary artists and one of the internationally most
famous Croatian artists.

Spomenka Nikitović, an art historian and journalist, later also a
gallerist, a knowledgeable expert of Stilinović’s work over decades
have collected the documentation and interpreted selected
artworks. The book was published as part of a series of publications
devoted to authors from the Group of Six Artists, whose
retrospective was presented by the Institute for Contemporary Art
in Zagreb in 1998. The exhibition later travelled to other cities in
Croatia and abroad.

Jadranka Vinterhalter is an art historian and curator. She worked
at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, the Museum
Documentation Center, Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Zagreb;
Institute for Contemporary Art and the Museum of Contemporary
Art, all in Zagreb.