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Aleksandar Macasev

Aleksandar Macasev is a Serbian artist of the younger generation, growing up during last the breaths of the former Yugoslavia and studying and emerging as an artist during the last European dictatorship. He turned out to be a model of an artist who transcends the usual guild limitations, working in the fields of design, web, media, advertising, mass communication and the usual art practice. According to his own words contemporary art became an idle entertainment of the bored. It is enclosed within dull limits of the art system and it has lost any possible edge (if art needs an edge at all?). Stephanie Skirvin said about him in Print magazine :”Aleksandar Macasev’s work ranges from the deceptively simple to the highly political.”
Presently Macasev lives in between Serbia and the US.
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Born in Becej, Yugoslavia on 3 August 1971
Graduated from the Faculty of Architecture,
Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1998
Member of Art Directors Club , Belgrade
Member of Applied Artists Association of Serbia
Works in a variety of visual culture disciplines
(graphic/web design, contemporary art)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
web
Steven Heller, an interview with Aleksandar Macasev, for AIGA, 2006
magazines
Flash Art magazine, October 2006
STEP magazine, 2007 STEP field guide, Alice Twemlow (in preparation), 2007
PRINT magazine, European Design Annual, LX:III, May/June 2006
PRINT magazine, Stephanie Skirvin, “Belgrade Confidential”, LX:I, Jan/Feb 2006
Wallpaper magazine, Sean Tichar, “Serb You Right”, No. 73, November 2004
books
“360≠100 Contemporary Designers”, Mike Dorrian, Liz Farrelly (in preparation), 2007
“Anatomy of Design” book by Mirko Ilic, Steven Heller (in preparation), 2006
“Innovative Promotions That Work: a quick guide to the essentials of effective design”,
Lisa L. Cyr, ROCKPORT, 2006
WORK EXPERIENCE
2004- 2006 Teacher of interactive design and history of design at the Department for Computer
Art&Design, BK Art Academy, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.
2004 Art director at BBDO advertising agency, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, web designer at
MassVision agency
2001-2004 Art director and web designer at Saatchi&Saatchi advertising agency, Belgrade,
Serbia and Montenegro
1999-2001 Web designer at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
1993-1998 Designer for ITAKA cultural NGO, Becej, Serbia and Montenegro
SELECTED LIST OF INTERNATIONAL CLIENTS
SWATCH, Playboy, Mirko Ilic Corp. NY (US), Karlssonwilker NY (US), Deloitte, French Cultural
Centre, Belgrade (Serbia), Merkator (Slovenia), Cinemania (Slovenia), Janjic GMbH (Austria),
CHARTAMEDE foundation, London (Great Britain)
FULL LIST OF EXHIBITIONS, AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS in the following pages
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EXHIBITIONS
2006
Small Town Horror, Postcard Project, Gallery of Cultural Centre of Belgrade
Zentropa Balkan, print, CONFIDENTIAL exhibition, Kocka, Belgrade
Joseph Goebbels™, print, Belgrade Design Week
GRIFON, biannual graphic design show, Belgrade
In The Name of…, print exhibition, BELEF festival, Belgrade
2005
Joseph Goebbels™, art campaign, BELEF festival, Belgrade
Human After All, ambience set, Lose Yourself exhibition, Cultural Centre of Belgrade
No Name expo of graphic design, Cacak, Serbia
2004
(f)art collection screening, OUT VIDEO festival, Jekaterinburg, Russia
RROSE PIXEL presentation, SERBIAN FAGS IN SLOVENIA exhibition, Ljubljana, Slovenia
COPY & WASTE (web art), the Webart exhibition in Podgorica, Montenegro
Unstable Portrait of Joseph Goebbels (web art), Webart exhibition in Podgorica,
Montenegro
GRIFON, biannual graphic design show, Belgrade
2003
(f)art collection screening at the DAMASQUINE gallery in Brusels, Belgium
BLACK PIXEL V.1.00 and KONTROLA.CO.YU web artwork, October Salon in Belgrade,
Serbia and Montenegro
R(r)OSE PIXEL (queer version of the BLACK PIXEL) presented at the Queer Weekend
(Coming out with nick II), REX, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Selja (web art), 4th Fair of the Short Electronic Form, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
2002
Danse Macabre (Video/web work), festival VIDEOMEDEJA in Novi Sad, Serbia and
Montenegro
Wedding and XXXS (Web art), 3rd Fair of the Short Electronic Form, Belgrade, Serbia and
Montenegro
2001
Sponsor (Web art), ARTISTS FORBID - Novosibirsk exhibition, Russia
Folie a deux (with Andrej Dolinka) and “adZ v.2” (Web art), CALL ME SARAJEVO (video
festival), Sarajevo, Bosnia
FAST FORWARD AND CONSUMING IMAGES - exhibition of paintings in TERRA gallery in
Kikinda, Serbia and Montenegro
INHABITED SPACE - spatial intervention which took part in the Belgrade summer festival
(BELEF), Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
“:)” (chat performance), CONVERSATION (International exhibition at the Belgrade MOCA),
Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
The Best of serbian Advertising (Web art), 2nd Fair of the Short Electronic Form, Belgrade,
Serbia and Montenegro
2000
Window (an ambiental work) and “Trace of desire” (the body action), the 4th Yugoslav
Biennial Of Young Artists, Vrsac, Yugoslavia
Products (mixed media), the 5th International Biennial of Miniature Art, Gornji Milanovac,
Yugoslavia
Link (An ambiental work in urban space ), Multimedia project, “Srbija 2000”, Belgrade,
adZ (v.1.00) (Web art) 1st Fair of the Short Electronic Form Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Consuming Images, Exhibition of paintings, Becej, Yugoslavia
1999
Inhabited Space, (An ambiental work in urban space ), Becej, Yugoslavia
1998
Accumulation, (author of the exhibition of the young artists), Becej, Yugoslavia
Mapping (ambient work), the 3RD Yugoslav Biennial Of Young Artists, Vrsac, Yugoslavia
Corrections, (mixed media), the 4th International Biennial of Miniature Art,
Gornji Milanovac, Yugoslavia
1997
Spatial Resemantizication, installation exhibition, Becej, Yugoslavia
1996
War island, exhibition, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Project X, video exhibition, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
1995
The Body, exhibition of paintings, Becej, Yugoslavia
1994
Metelkova Street, project exhibition, Birmingham, Zurich, Bruxelles, Ljubljana
1993
Exhibition of posters, Becej, Yugoslavia

AWARDS:
2005
Award for the best campaign design (Mirko Ilic’s exhibition in Belgrade), PR society of
Serbia
2004
1st prize for COPY & WASTE at the Webart exhibition in Podgorica, Montenegro
2003
1st prize for the Ideas Campus web site at the ArtTech III festival, Pancevo,
Serbia and Montenegro
Awards for web design and digital photography at the XPOSE festival, Pancevo, Serbia
and Montenegro
Awards for vector graphics and flash animation at the Art tech IV festival, Pancevo, Serbia
and Montenegro
2002
Special award for web design at the FINLANDIA “On ice” competition, Belgrade,
Serbia and Montenegro
2001
Rex award for “adZ” (v.1.00) (Web art) 1st Fair of the Short Electronic Form, Belgrade,
Yugoslavia
1996
The 1st prize at the architectural competition for the river island on Danube in Belgrade,
Yugoslavia
1994
The second prize for total design for Yugoslavian EASA (Europian Association of Students
of Architecture), Belgrade., Yugoslavia
1993
The 3rd prize on the student competition for total design for the YOUNG ARCHITECTS
CLUB, Belgrade., Yugoslavia
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