London, United Kingdom
Vinko Kalcic is an internationally acclaimed artist based in London. Born in Yugoslavia, he began d...
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Vinko Kalcic is an internationally acclaimed artist based in London.
Born in Yugoslavia, he began drawing as a young child, creating colourful cartoon-like works inspired by comic books and fuelled by a vivid imagination. At just eighteen years old he began to paint in the bold, frank style of Naïve Art. Just one year later, he sold his first painting. This was the beginning of a career that would take him across the world, exploring the many facets of the Art world, from photography to music and beyond. The young artist’s career launched with successful exhibitions throughout Italy including in Milan, Rome, Turin, Venice, Udine, Trieste, Como etc. and later across Europe in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
Formal education followed, primarily in Fine Art/Design but in later years his dedication to artistic and personal development would lead to studies in Multimedia, Digital Compositing for Film/Video in London’s Escape Studios and Creative Studies in Queen’s University, Belfast.
In 1991, the bloodiest interethnic and unjustified conflict in Europe since the Second World War broke out in Yugoslavia. Vinko a passionate pacifist believing that the value of human life is so high that nothing can justify killing a person deli...
BA (Hons) Fine Art / Design, Creative Studies at Queens University in Belfast - UK, Digital Compositing & Special Effects course for Film & Video in Escape Studios, London - UK
London, Belfast, Milan, Rome, Venice, Trieste, Como, Turin, Geneve, Munich, Stuttgart, Wien...
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