Jerko Denegri
Jerko Denegri (1936, Split) is a critic and art historian. He observed and influenced above all the generation of the 1970s, including New Tendencies. His theory of the "other line", in which he came up with a genealogy of the neo-avant-garde that deviated from canonic models, became an influential factor in recent artistic developments.
Studied history and geography at the Viša pedagoška škola u Splitu in Split (1955–1958) and art history at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade (1954–1964, 1990 Ph.D. in history of contemporary art). 1965–1989 curator, Muzej savremene umetnosti, Beograd, Belgrade. Editor in chief of the contemporary art magazine Moment: casopis za vizuelne medije. Curator of the Yugoslavian contributions to the Paris Biennales of 1971, 1976, and 1983, and the Venice Biennales of 1976 and 1982. Lives in Belgrade.
Works[edit]
- Books
- with Ivan Čižmek, Radomir Damnjanović-Damnjan, Zagreb, 1966.
- Konstruktivno slikarstvo. Treća decenija, Belgrade, 1967.
- Eksat 1951, 1979.
- editor, Dizajn i kultura: izbor tekstova, Belgrade: Radionica SIC, 1985, 241 pp. Anthology. (Serbo-Croatian)
- Teme srpske umetnosti, 5 vols., Novi Sad: Svetovi, 1993-99.
- Fragmenti postmodernog pluralizma, Belgrade: Cicero, 1997.
- Jedna moguća istorija moderne umetnosti: Beograd kao internacionalna umetnička scena 1965-1998, Belgrade: Drustvo istoricara umetnosti Srbije, 1998; 2nd ed. as Jedna moguća istorija moderne umetnosti: Beograd kao internacionalna umetnička scena 1965-2006, BIGZ Publishing, and Belgrade: Muzej savremene umetnosti, 2009, 647 pp. (Serbian)
- Exat 51 i Nove tendencije: umjetnost konstruktivnog pristupa, Zagreb: Horetzky, 2000, 620 pp. (Croatian)
- Constructive Approach Art: Exat 51 and New Tendencies, Zagreb: Horetzky, 2004, 336 pp. [1] (English)
- Prilozi za drugu liniju: kronika jednog kritičarskog zalaganja, intro. Jasna Galjer, Zagreb: Horetzky, 2003, 494 pp. (Croatian)
- Prilozi za drugu liniju 2: EXAT-51, Nove tendencije, radikalni enformel, Gorgona: dopune hronici jednog kritičarskog zalaganja, Beč/Belgrade: Macura, 2005, 184 pp. [2] (Serbian)
- Modernizam, avangarda: ogledi o međuratnom modernizmu i istorijskim avangardama na jugoslovenskom umetničkom prostoru, Belgrade: Službeni glasnik, 2012, 276 pp. (Serbian)
- editor, with Nikola Dedić and Miško Šuvaković, Radikalna apstrakcija: apstraktno slikarstvo i granice prikazivanja, Belgrade: Službeni glasnik, 2013, 237 pp. (Serbian)
- Srpska umetnost 1950-2000, 5 vols., Belgrade: Orion Art, 2013, 1631 pp. [3] (Serbian)
- Prilozi za drugu liniju 3, Zagreb: Agroinova: Institut za istraživanja avangarde, 2015, 451 pp. (Croatian)
- Posleratni modernizam: neoavantgarde, postmodernizam: ogledi o jugoslovenskom umetničkom prostoru: 1950-1990, Belgrade: Službeni glasnik, 2016, 270 pp. (Serbian)
- with Nikola Dedić and Miško Šuvaković, Veliki modernizam: Gabrijel Stupica, Olga Jevrić, Julije Knifer, Belgrade: Orion Art, 2018, 144 pp. [4] (Serbian)
- Articles
- “On the Occasion of New Tendency 4 and Computers and Visual Research,” Arhitektura i urbanizam 10:56/57 (1969).
- “Computers and Visual Research,” in: Umetnost, vol. 15, no. 7–9 and no. 10–12, 1969, n. p.
- "Teme i funkcije medija fotografije", MSU, 1979.
- "Apstraktna umetnost u Hrvatskoj - geometrijske tendencije", 1985.
- "Die Bedingungen und Umstände, die den ersten beiden Ausstellungen der Nove Tendencije in Zagreb [1961-1963] vorausgingen", 2007. [5]
- "Art in the Network of Technological Media and Mass Communication: New Tendencies", trans. Dorotea Fotivec, in Postwar Art: Between The Pacific And The Atlantic 1945-1965, eds. Okwui Enwezor, Katy Siegel, and Ulrich Wilmes, Munich: Haus der Kunst & Prestel, 2016, pp 684-687. (English)
- more
Interviews[edit]
- Stevan Vukovic, "The Other Line. Interview with the art historian Jerko (Jesa) Denegri", Springerin, 2007.
- Branislav Dimitrijević, Jelena Vesić, The Yugoslav Art Space: Ješa Denegri in the First Person, afterw. Boris Groys, Geneva: JRP|Editions, Dijon: Les presses du réel, with Vienna: Kontakt Collection, 2024, 409 pp. A survey of the life and work of Ješa Denegri. Publisher. Publisher.