Julije Knifer: Knifer . Lignes . Autoportraits

« Knifer. Lines. Self-portraits » is the third exhibition of the work of Julije Knifer at galerie frank elbaz since 1999. Born in Osijek, Croatia in 1924, Knifer died in Paris in 2004 after a career embracing Zagreb, Germany, Italy and – from the early 1990s – France. In 2001 he represented his homeland at the Venice Biennale, even though, temperamentally stateless, he had always rejected geographic and national affiliations: "Art has been my sole refuge," he said shortly after moving to France. « I worked in Yugoslavia as a dissident, then as an exile in Germany, Italy and now France. But I have to say that because of my concerns as an artist, place has never meant very much to me."