Slavoljub Caja Radojčić (1942)
Slavoljub Caja Radojčić was born in 1942 in Belgrade, Serbia. He graduated at the Sculpture Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1965. He completed his postgraduate studies at the same Academy under Professor Miso Popović in 1967. He is a member of ULUS (Association of Fine Artists of Serbia) since 1965. He was a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. Radojčić is working with sculpture, drawing and printmaking. He has been exhibiting since 1965. He staged more than fifty solo exhibitions at home and abroad.
In his creativity Radojčić combines grotesque and ironic symbols of man’s existence in the spirit of the new figuration reducing the anatomy of the basic forms, paraphrasing organic and geometric forms and incision of archetypal characters.
Radojčić is the author of numerous sculptures in free space in Serbia and former Yugoslav countries.
Many collections of museums and art galleries hold his sculptures and drawings, for example, National Museum in Belgrade, Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, National Museum in Kragujevac, Yugoslav Portrait Gallery in Tuzla (Bosnia and Hertzegovina), Gallery “Sebastian” in Dubrovnik (Croatia), Gallery “Turkey & Turkey “and” Lock “in Switzerland, as well as in private collections in Serbia, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, England, Italy, France, Russia, the United States.
Awards: National Award for sculpture at the International Exhibition of Small Sculpture (The Hague, 1966), first prize for sculpture at the October Salon (Belgrade, 1977), the award “Golden chisel” Spring Exhibition at the ULUS (Association of Fine Artists of Serbia), Belgrade, 1980, First Prize at the Yugoslav competition for the Freedom Monument to the Revolution Square in Sabac (1987), “Politika” award for Fine Arts from the fund Vladislav Ribrnikar (Belgrade, 1999), the award of the Balkan small format Triennial (Thessaloniki, 2003) and so on.