Icon (Madonna with Child) Painting

Mladen Micunovic is a painter born in Belgrade 1956 in former Yugoslavia. Due to his father’s diplomatic career, spending his formative years in different countries, his life story and artistic development are unique in the sense that from his birth he was destined to form a truly international outlook on culture and art. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, the University of Belgrade in 1980 (1975-1980) his art practice was based in Belgrade, Yugoslavia until 1986 when he relocated to New York, USA where his art practice consisted of the continuation and development of paintings on canvas and plexiglas. He moved to Belgrade, Yugoslavia again in 1988 where he painted and exhibited till 1998. Then he relocated to Austria, Vienna and Klagenfurt where he continued his art practice till 2003. A new period of his artistic development occurred in London, UK where he was artist in residence working in his Charing Cross studio from 2003 to 2005. During this period in London his canvas paintings and his plexiglas paintings finally merged physically and metaphysically into one painting (“Dangerous Desire”). An absolutely unique way of combining two very different materials - canvas and plexiglas, and different techniques of painting, resulting in a personal and original artistic expression concerning the subject matter, technique, and visual stimuli, synthesizing global art tendencies and achievements through his very personal prism of visual art. In 2008 he relocated to Montenegro, on the Adriatic coast and further developed his canvas-plexiglas paintings. From 2014 to the present day he is artist in residence in the Hague, Netherlands.