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Mersad Berber
Mersad Berber was born in 1940 in Bosanski Petrovac, a Western Bosnian township. He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljublijana in the Republic of Slovenia where he graduated with a BA and MA. Throughout his career he has created cycles of paintings which chronicle events, homages and dedications. Each cycle has its roots either in Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian history from the medieval to the twentieth century or, in a much wider context, the great masters of European painting from the cinquecento to the ottocento for example, Durer, Rubens, Rembrandt, Van der Weyden, Uccello, Vermeer and Velasquez. The interaction and blending of styles, temperaments, schools and traditions is the cultural and artistic focus of Berber's work for he is the grand master of blending different European traditions - with their authentic characteristics, histories and emotive multiculturalism. The paintings are not narratives in any traditional sense. Instead they offer dream-like conjunctions of imagery. Sometimes one image melts with another. Sometimes they are deliberately kept separate, even though they occupy the same picture-space.Berber is acknowledged by historians, academicians and critics as one of the great masters of twentieth century painting and his paintings are represented in important collections throughout the world.
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cv / exhibition history / awards
Selected Exhibitions
2009
Albemarle Gallery, London (England)
Calixaforum, Barcelona (Spain)
Palma De Mallorca, (Spain)
2008
Galleria De Arte, Primavesi, Madrid (Spain)
Galeria D’Art, El Claustre, Girona
2007
Albemarle Gallery, London (England)
2006
Loggia, Hvar
Galleria De Arte, Primavesi, Madrid (Spain)
2005
Gallery Stradun, Dubrovnik
Albemarle Gallery, London (England)
Galeria D’Art, El Claustre, Girona
2004
Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York (USA)
Galerie Stuker, Zurich (Switzerland)
2003
Gallery CC - 22, Madrid (Spain)
Center of Modern Art M ‘ARS, Moscow (Russia)
2002
Albemarle Gallery, London (England)
Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York (USA)
Gallery CC - 22, Madrid (Spain)
2001
Gallery Greuze, Geneva (Switzerland)
Russland, Moscow (Russia)
Gallery Fischer, Lucerne (Switzerland)
2000
Albemarle Gallery, London (England)
Cultural Foundation Center Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)
The Studio of Long Grove, Chicago (USA)
1999
Galerien Hans Hoeppner, Hamburg,
Munich, Essen (Germany)
1998
Albemarle Gallery, London (England)
Akebank Gallery, Istanbul (Turkey)
1992
Mimara Museum, Zagreb (Croatia)
Galerien Hans Hoeppner, Hamburg, Munich, Essen (Germany)
1986
Hilton, Geneva (Switzerland)
1985
Tamei Gallery, Tokyo (Japan) Gallery Weber, Geneva (Switzerland)
1983
Dallas Art Gallery, Dallas (USA)
Bank Association Inter - America, Washington D.C. (USA)
1981
Gallery Nodiers, New York (USA)
1977
Sebastian Gallery, Dubrovnik (Croatia)
1976
Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, (Italy)
1973
Akhnaton Gallery, Cairo (Egypt)
1972
Centro d’ Arte Mediterranea, Torre del Greco (Italy)
1968
H. El S. Canvers Art Gallery, Montreal, Vancouver (Canada)
1967
Art Pavilion, Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Selected Awards
1997
First Prize, Grand Prix MTG 97, International Triennial of Graphic Art
(150 countries participating) Krakow (Poland)
1982
Spanish Olympic Committee Prize, VIII International Biennial of Sports in fine art, Madrid (Spain)
1978
International Museum Council Prize (ICON Award) XIII Grand Prix,
International, Monte Carlo (Monaco)
1976
Honorary Prize, X International Biennale of Engraving, Tokyo (Japan)
1974
Grand Prix, IV International Biennale of Graphic Arts, Florence (Italy)
1971
Gold Medal, I. International Exhibition of Graphic Arts, Cesar Sofrakopolu Prize, Trieste (Italy)
1968
First Prize, I. Sarajevo Salon, Sarajevo (Bosnia y Herzegoviria)
1961
Presern’s prize, Fine Art Academy, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
