Safet Zec

Safet Zec (b. 1943), a Bosnian-born painter, engraver and proponent of 'Poetic Realism', fled his homeland during the war in 1992 and resettled in Italy. He currently spends his time between Sarajevo, Pocitelj, Venice and Paris. Zec often paints with tempera over newspaper collages attached to canvas, bringing typeset words and photographic images to the immediate backgrounds of his painterly works. Also known for his painting of windows, he once said, 'Painting windows is like painting a portrait for me. They are like people, they change their aspect as the day and night passes. They're ever present in our lives'. See an article by Shelton Lindsay at https://theculturetrip.com/europe/bosnia-herzegovina/articles/haunted-by-war-the-art-of-safet-zec/