Ljubodrag Andric

“Andric is in a different position. He is the inheritor of a culture that has already put its finger on abstraction and has distilled it into extraordinary works of art accepted as such by a public that has learned to understand them. For that very reason there is no longer any need for “pure” abstraction, for an art that must convince its public that the abstract is sufficient. Andric suggests that the abstract feelings to be found by way of actual places, far from being diluted by compromise, are as resonant and powerful as those without any referent in reality” – Barry Schwabsky.

Born into a family of artists in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, in 1965, Ljubodrag Andric took his first steps in photography when he was 15. He studied humanities at the University of Belgrade and devoted himself to photography full-time in 1987. He obtained his first commissions when he was 21, most of them in connection with architecture. His work was exhibited for the first time when he was 23, at the Belgrade Museum of Contemporary Art’s gallery. In 1987, Ljubodrag Andric moved to Italy, where he practiced studio photography for 15 years, in Rome and Milan. In 2002, he moved to Canada, devoting himself to his artistic practice alone. A Canadian, Italian, and Serb citizen, Andric currently lives in Toronto, Canada. His work has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and contemporary art festivals and fairs across the world. A monograph on his work edited by Demetrio Paparoni was published by SKIRA (Milan, Italy) in 2016. Ljubodrag Andric is represented by Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco, USA and BUILDING in Milan, Italy.