Endi E. Poskovic Explained

Endi Poskovic
Birth Name:Elvedin Endi Pošković
Birth Date:29 January 1969
Birth Place:Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia
Employer:University of Michigan

Endi Poskovic (born as Elvedin Pošković[1] on January 29, 1969) is an American visual artist, printmaker and educator.[2]

His early graphic work merges visual representation with text, often shifting the reading of the imagery through continuous representation and re-contextualization.[3] Poskovic's woodcut prints invoke influences as disparate as early cinema, classic Japanese woodblock prints, devotional pictures, and Eastern European Propaganda poster. The amalgam of diverse scenarios and visual narratives in Poskovic's work imply accounts from personal and social histories and reference themes of cultural and environmental shifts, migration and alienation that are at once magnificent and tragic.[4] [5]

Biography

Elvedin Pošković was born on January 29, 1969, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was then the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Poskovic graduated from Sarajevo High School of Applied Arts and Sarajevo Principal Music School Mladen Pozajiċin in 1986 before attending the University of Sarajevo Academy of Fine Arts from which he graduated in 1990 in the class of Professor Dževad Hozo.[6] [7]

Between 1985 and 1989, Poskovic performed traditional music of Southeastern Europe and the Balkans and toured folk music festivals throughout Yugoslavia, as well as Western Europe and Western Asia.[8] In the summer of 1990, Poskovic left SFR Yugoslavia to study in Norway on a Norwegian Government scholarship where he enrolled in Norwegian language immersion program at Nordmøre Folkehøgskolein Surnadal and studied drawing and painting with Jon Arne Mogstad.[9] From Norway, Poskovic moved to the United States in 1991 to study with Harvey Breverman and Adele Henderson at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York where he graduated in 1993 with a Master of Fine Arts degree in art practice.[10] [11] While in Buffalo, New York, and in the years following, Poskovic exhibited at several major Western New York venues including the Burchfield Penney Art Center (1994 to 1995), the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center,[12] and the Castellani Art Museum. Since 1991, Poskovic has lived in New York, Indiana, California, North Carolina, Illinois, Nebraska, and Michigan where he has taught at several universities and colleges.[13] [14] [15] [16] In 2008, Poskovic moved to Ann Arbor where he now teaches at the University of Michigan as Professor of Art and Design in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Faculty Associate in the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREES).[17] [18] In 2015, Poskovic was awarded a Fulbright Program U.S. Senior Scholar Grant for 2015-2016 academic year to Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Poland, to research the formative years of the Kraków International Triennial and the role it played in the democratization of art and education in Poland and beyond.[19] [20]

Since 2003, Poskovic has actively traveled to China and Japan to research wood-block printing, painting, and papermaking. He has studied at China Academy of Art, Central Academy of Fine Arts, and Tokyo University of the Arts and visited Beijing, Changsha, Hangzhou, Nagoya, Suzhou, and Tokyo.[21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26]

Work

Working in a range of print media from relief printing, intaglio, lithography to hybrid techniques,[27] Poskovic's early graphic works typically juxtapose a strong central image with seemingly unrelated text in a foreign or imaginary language evoking a multileveled meaning. Writing for the Omaha Reader, artist Mary Day states that "Gazing at one of these prints becomes an apprehension of the unseen and unknown. The unknown being what came before, and after, this particular moment captured in an amalgam of image, text, paper, and ink."[28] In recent years, Poskovic has worked extensively in lithography printmaking in collaboration with Tamarind Institute master printer Jill Graham[29] at Open Studio Toronto, as well as NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, producing a series of stone lithographic prints and animation Crossing Series.[30] [31] [32] Poskovic's Crossing Series assimilates memory and reality as a way to underscore a personal tale of discovery.[33] Working through additive and subtractive stone lithography printing and short animations to depict topography specific to Southeastern Herzegovina and Dalmatia region, Poskovic indirectly examines the recent political and demographic shifts in the country of his birth.[34] The achromatic lithographs, based on small aluminum models Poskovic makes, are filmed and drawn directly on limestone from the film stills. The classical drawing’s translation through lithography’s dense method pays homage to the history of the process invented in 1796 by German author and playwright Alois Senefelder.[35] In these works, Poskovic invokes the works of Frederic Edwin Church, Caspar David Friedrich, Edvard Munch, and Winslow Homer.[31] In the animations, simple, eloquent transitions from image to image, such as an iceberg gradually morphing into a cloud, or a stormy, rain-filled cloud evaporating into nothing, create a familiar, yet unsettling experience. This hybrid blend of drawing, print, and animation creates an amalgam of possibilities, in which the unfamiliar becomes almost tactile, while the familiar (rocks, clouds, water) provides a handhold on reality.[36]

Public collections

Poskovic's works are in the permanent public collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Aberystwyth University Museum of Art,[37] the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art,[38] Harvard University Fogg Museum,[39] Detroit Institute of Arts,[40] Des Moines Art Center,[41] U.S. State Department Art in Embassies Program,[42] [43] [44] Grand Valley State University,[45] Indianapolis Museum of Art,[46] Burchfield Penney Art Center,[47] Art Museum of Estonia,[48] The University of California, Berkeley Graphic Arts Collection.[49] [50] the McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture,[51] Castellani Art Museum,[52] City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture [53] and many others.

Significant awards and honors

Poskovic has also received artist-in-residence fellowships from the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts,[65] [66] McColl Center for Visual Art,[67] Open Studio Toronto,[68] VCCA,[69] Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium,[70] Can Serrat International Art Center and Fundación Valparaíso, both in Spain, MI-LAB (Mokuhanga Innovation Lab) in Japan,[71] amongst others.

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.idoconline.info/digitalarchive/public/index.cfm?fuseaction=serve&ElementId=362025## SVJETSKI TRIJUMF SARAJEVSKOG ROCKERA-SLIKARA, SLOBODNA BOSNA 2 Aug 2007, ADISA ČEČO
  2. Web site: MUW had the privilege to have American artist Endi Poskovic speak at the Open Fulbright Lecture Series | Medical University of Warsaw .
  3. http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/endi-poskovic/ – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  4. https://art.state.gov/personnel/endi_poskovic/ . IFPDA. Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  5. Web site: Interview with Endi Poskovic . December 2018 .
  6. https://www.scribd.com/doc/48235907/BH-Dani-Broj-712-04-02-2011 BH Dani Broj 712 – 04.02.2011
  7. http://www.ipcny.org/?q=node/949 ENDI POSKOVIC, Artist Bio | International Print Center NY
  8. Web site: My next-door neighbor, Goran Bregovic. University Musical Society.
  9. Web site: 1993-11-28. RESURRECTING THE SOUL OF SARAJEVO. USC News. en-US.
  10. Web site: Endi Poskovic, MFA 1993. arts-sciences.buffalo.edu. en.
  11. http://art.buffalo.edu/2011/04/26/poskovic/ Endi Poskovic, MFA 1993, awarded Guggenheim Fellowship for 2011–2012 | ubVS News
  12. Web site: Endi Poskovic - Hallwalls. www.hallwalls.org.
  13. https://art.unc.edu/ . Art.unc.edu (20 March 2009). Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  14. https://www.whittier.edu/news/mon-11252013-348-pm/art-prof-featured-bosnian-newsweek . Web.whittier.edu (4 February 2007). Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  15. http://www.ballstatedaily.com/article/2005/03/exhibition-chance-for-students-to-shine Exhibition chance for students to shine – Features – The Ball State Daily News – Ball State University
  16. http://eventful.com/traversecity/events/interlochen-endi-poskovicprint-artist-exhibit-/E0-001-016843061-4 Endi Poskovic Featured in Inaugural Exhibition | Interlochen Center for the Arts
  17. http://art-design.umich.edu/people/detail/endi_poskovic A&D Profile: Endi Poskovic
  18. Web site: Endi Poskovic | U-M LSA International Institute .
  19. Web site: News - Endi Poskovic Awarded U.S. Senior Fulbright Scholar Grant | Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan . March 23, 2015 . April 4, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150404083708/http://stamps.umich.edu/news/endi_poskovic_awarded_u.s._senior_fulbright_scholar_grant . dead .
  20. Web site: Elvedin Poskovic | Fulbright Scholar Program.
  21. Web site: Chinese and Western art exhibition held in Changsha . Chinadaily.com.cn . 2017-06-28 . 2022-06-21.
  22. Web site: Art Exhibition: Endi Poskovic - Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan . July 8, 2018 . July 3, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180703145839/http://www.confucius.umich.edu/event-details/endi-poskovic/ . dead .
  23. Web site: The Everyday Reality of a Different World: Endi Poskovic Shares his Vision. John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. en-US.
  24. Web site: China Through the Prism of the Democratic Art of Printmaking - Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan . July 8, 2018 . June 16, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180616062949/http://www.confucius.umich.edu/event-details/china-through-the-prism-of-the-democratic-art-of-printmaking/ . dead .
  25. Web site: Endi Poskovic - ART.WORLD . July 8, 2018 . July 8, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180708162703/https://art.world/endi-poskovic . dead .
  26. Web site: 2017-06-19. 這是長沙上半年的展覽里，空間和藝術作品結合得最完美的. iFuun. zh-tw.
  27. Web site: Endi Poskovic > Artists > Burchfield Penney Art Center.
  28. Web site: Beautiful Dreamer . September 25, 2013 .
  29. Web site: Impossible Objects. January 2, 2024.
  30. Web site: Unravelhalifax .
  31. Web site: News Archive .
  32. Web site: Meet master printer Jill Graham . July 24, 2015 .
  33. Web site: Archived copy . May 19, 2015 . January 17, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150117130100/http://www.arts.canterbury.ac.nz/fina/exhibitions/previous_shows/pacificrimprint/2013/ARTC2963_Pacific_Rim_v6.pdf . dead .
  34. News: River Gallery showcasing imaginative landscapes of U-M's Endi Poskovic. Annarbor.com .
  35. Web site: Beautiful Dreamer . September 25, 2013 .
  36. Web site: Crossing .
  37. Web site: Artist/Maker: Endi Poskovic - Aberystwyth University School of Art Museums and Galleries. 2021-08-15.
  38. Web site: Poskovic. The University of Iowa Libraries.
  39. Web site: Harvard. From the Harvard Art Museums' collections Sunny Day Over the Bay in Purple, Orange and Deep Blue. Harvard Art Museums. en.
  40. Web site: Endi Poskovic. www.dia.org. en.
  41. http://emuseum.desmoinesartcenter.org/people/43294/endi-poskovic;jsessionid=F7BBF27E9A73017BBC85E9382EC0B54A/objects Objects
  42. Web site: Endi E Poskovic – U.S. Department of State. en-US.
  43. Web site: SARAJEVO EMBASSY 2009 – U.S. Department of State. en-US.
  44. Web site: Radiosarajevo.ba. Patrick Moon predstavio američke slikare. Radio Sarajevo. October 26, 2011 .
  45. Web site: Poskovic. Grand Valley State University Art Gallery.
  46. Web site: Before the Rain. Indianapolis Museum of Art Online Collection. en.
  47. Web site: Endi Poskovic > Artists >. Burchfield Penney Art Center.
  48. Web site: Graafikakogud. Eesti Kunstimuuseum. et.
  49. http://servlet1.lib.berkeley.edu:8080/galc/search.execute.logic?page=11 Search
  50. http://servlet1.lib.berkeley.edu:8080/galc/search.execute.logic?srch-artist=Poskovic%2C+Endi Search artist
  51. Web site: Drawn from the McClung Museum | McClung Museum of Natural History & Culture. September 12, 2016.
  52. Web site: My Own Country.
  53. Web site: The Big Adventure in Deep Blue with Red Dots (L'Adventure) (A.P. 1/5).
  54. https://artmattersfoundation.org/grantees?last-name=p Art Matters Past Grantees
  55. Web site: The 1995 Artist Residency Exchange: Western New York Exhibition and Reading (Are:wny) - 1/20/96.
  56. https://camargofoundation.org/programs/directory-of-past-residents/ . The Camargo Foundation. Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  57. Web site: News. May 25, 2015. February 8, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180208115626/http://portablemacdowell.org/#artists/endi-poskovic. dead.
  58. Web site: Kala Art Institute Alliance of Artists Communities. 2021-08-15. artistcommunities.org.
  59. Web site: Endi Poskovic. Kala Art Institute. Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  60. http://durfee.org/awardee/endi-poskovic/ ARC Grants – Recipients 2008
  61. http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/bellagio-center/search?keywords=Endi+Poskovic&con=true&res=true&start=mm+%2F+dd+%2F+yyyy&end=mm+%2F+dd+%2F+yyyy The Bellagio Center
  62. http://www.gf.org/news-events/2011-Fellows-by-Field-United-States-and-Canada/ 2011 Fellows by Field – United States and Canada – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  63. Web site: MUW had the privilege to have American artist Endi Poskovic speak at the Open Fulbright Lecture Series | Medical University of Warsaw.
  64. Web site: Endi Poskovic | Dream and Crossing Series | Lecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Fulbrighter. January 2, 2024.
  65. http://www.bemiscenter.org/residency/by_year/2004/endi_poskovic.html Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts : Residency : By Year : 2004 : Endi Poskovic
  66. http://www.bemiscenter.org/residency/by_year/2007/endi_poskovic.html Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts : Residency : By Year : 2007 : Endi Poskovic
  67. http://www.mccollcenter.org/artists-in-residence/alumni/59/endi-poskovic Alumni
  68. http://www.openstudio.on.ca/visiting-artists-2008-2009/ Visiting Artists Exhibition: Kai Chan & Endi Poskovic
  69. http://www.vcca.com/main/users/85 poskovic | VCCA: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
  70. Web site: Endi Poskovic | Frans Masereel Centrum . March 29, 2015 . April 2, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402131341/http://fransmasereelcentrum.be/en/residency/endi-poskovic/ . dead .
  71. Web site: MI-LAB Artist in Residence [AIR Programs | MI-LAB Artist in Residence] .
  72. Web site: Oslobođenje - Endi Poskovic: Sarajevo's Andy Warhol. September 15, 2019.
  73. Web site: In Crossing the Dreams to Unnamed Reality | Printmaking - Celebrating Print Magazine . March 11, 2019 . June 5, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190605051317/http://www.celebratingprint.com/single-post/2019/02/28/In-Crossing-the-Dreams-to-Unnamed-Reality . dead .
  74. https://books.google.com/books?id=LwFzMgAACAAJ Powered by Google Docs
  75. http://www.oslobodjenje.ba/index.php?id=1306 Bosanskohercegovačka umjetnost nakon 11/9
  76. Web site: Nontoxicprint. January 2, 2024.
  77. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | the Everyday Reality of a Different World: Endi Poskovic Shares his Vision.

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