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TODOROVIC, Uros
Education
The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- PhD., Department of Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies, Modern Painting and Byzantine Aesthetics, October 2012
- V.A., Sydney College of the Arts, Sculpture, May 2000
- Bachelor of Teaching, Secondary Education (Visual Arts), December 2006
The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- F.A., College of Fine Arts (now called School of Art & Design), Sculpture, May 2002
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
- B.Th., Department of Theology, School of Theology, Theology, September 2012
Professional Qualifications
Professional Experience
- 2024 – present, Associate Professor of Western Painting, Department of Arts and Design, University of Macau.
- 2018 – 2024, Lecturer of Byzantine painting and Byzantine aesthetics at the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, School of Fine Arts, University of Western Macedonia in Greece.
Professional Affiliations
- Member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece
- Member of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS)
- Member of the National Association of Visual Artists of Australia
- Member of the Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand
- Member of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics
Research Interests
- Western Painting
- Renaissance Painting
- Byzantine Painting, Byzantine Art
- Modern Painting
- Contemporary Painting
- Sculpture
- Aesthetics
- Artistic Research
- Philosophy
- Theology
- Chinese Art
- Japanese Art
- Ancient art (of Greece, Mesopotamia and Persia)
- 2015/2016 – Scholarship awarded for the second doctoral research by The Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation.
- 2012/2013 – Scholarship awarded for postdoctoral research by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in collaboration with The Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation.
- 2008 – Scholarship awarded for doctoral research by The Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation.
- 2007 – Scholarship awarded for doctoral research by Kostas and Eleni Ourani Foundation.
- 2006 – Scholarship awarded for doctoral research by the University of Sydney.
- Byzantine Painting through Contemporary Eyes
Published by Sebastian Press (Alhambra, California) in 2023, the first part of the book examines the aesthetics of Late Byzantine painting, while the second part examines the influence of the aesthetics of Late Byzantine painting on the 20th century abstract painting, therein focusing on the work of Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich and Mark Rothko. This book can be downloaded as a PDF file from the following link:
The book is also available electronically via the following link:
- Modernism of the frescoes of Mistra: From the Byzantine Frescoes of Mistra to the 20th Century Abstract Painting, Sebastian Press 2024. This study can be downloaded as a PDF file from the following link: https://sebastianpress.org/modernism-of-the-frescoes-of-mistra
- From Athena to Theotokos: The Classical Origin of the Mosaic in the Conch of the Apse of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, Sebastian Press 2024. This study can be downloaded as a PDF file from the following link: https://sebastianpress.org/from-athena-to-theotokos
- Transcendental Byzantine Body: Reading Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite, Gregory of Nyssa and Plotinus in the Unfolded Marble Panels of Hagia Sophia. This study was published in 2015 by Sebastian Press (Alhambra, California) within a Volume entitled The Ways of Byzantine Philosophy. The same study was also published in the E–Journal / The Athens Dialogues.
- From Athena to Theotokos: The Classical Origin of the Mosaic in the Conch of the Apse of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. Published in Greek by The Great Orthodox Christian Encyclopedia. Volume 12. Publishing house: Stratigikes Ekdoseis 2015.
- The Art of Mistra: Church Architecture and Sculptural Decoration. Published in Greek by The Great Orthodox Christian Encyclopedia. Volume 11. Publishing house: Stratigikes Ekdoseis 2014.
- The Frescoes of Mistra. Published in Greek by The Great Orthodox Christian Encyclopedia. Volume 11. Publishing house: Stratigikes Ekdoseis 2014.
- The Diachronic Significance of the Painting at Mistra. Published in Greek by The Great Orthodox Christian Encyclopedia. Volume 11. Publishing house: Stratigikes Ekdoseis 2014.
- Meteora: History and Art. Published in Greek by The Great Orthodox Christian Encyclopedia. Volume 11. Publishing house: Stratigikes Ekdoseis 2014.
- ‘Manuel Panselinos’ and the Palaiologan Painting. Published in Greek by The Great Orthodox Christian Encyclopedia. Volume 12. Publishing house: Stratigikes Ekdoseis 2015.
- Conference: Plato Academy – Development of Knowledge and Innovative Ideas. Plato Academy – Paths to Knowledge, Kostis Palamas Building, Athens, 07.10.2013. Paper presentation entitled: From Late Byzantine Painting to Modernism.
- Conference: Byzantine and Medieval Monuments. Presentation of a study entitled Abstraction and Classicism in Byzantine Art. Athens War Museum, 16.02.2019.
- 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Belgrade 22-27 August 2016. Presentation of a study entitled: Analogies between the Transition from the Ancient Performative Image to the Byzantine Liturgical Image and Evolving Contemporary Concepts of Digital Imagery. This study was presented within the Thematic Sessions of Free Communications, entitled: Theatre and Liturgy: Performance and Ritual in Christian Worship.
- Workshop at Oxford University. Presentation of a study entitled The Sacred in Art as a Diachronic Experience: From Prehistoric Cave Painting to ‘Byzantine’ Mark Rothko. This study was presented at the workshop entitled Sacred and Secular in Life and Art, which took place at Oxford University and was dedicated to the memory of Philip Sherrard. Also, within the program of this workshop artists who presented their work included: Aidan Hart, Markos Kampanis, Lillian Delevoryas, Ouresis Todorovich and Noel White (14-17 July 2016).
- International Conference at the European Cultural Centre of Delphi: Ontology and History. 29 – 31 May 2015. Paper presentation entitled: The Orthodox Icon and the Dialectics Between Ontology and History.
- International conference: Body and Spirit: the dynamics of an antithesis, Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, 15.11.2013. Presentation of a study entitled: Transcendental Byzantine Body: Reading Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite, Gregory of Nyssa and Plotinus in the Unfolded Marble Panels of Hagia Sophia.
- (2023) Collective international exhibition entitled The Fifth Art Encounters: Art Composition at the Cultural Center “House of King Peter I” in Belgrade (from October 24th to November 4th 2023).
- (2021) Participation in a selective international exhibition which features the work of 15 contemporary iconographers, at the Museum of Russian Icons (now called: The Icon Museum and Study Center) in Clinton, Massachusetts, USA. The title of the exhibition is: Icons for Our Time: Orthodox Art from around the World. (The exhibition opened in October 2021). Note: The Museum purchased my work entitled Cosmic Christ / Suffering Logos (Second Version). Virtual tour of the exhibition:https://ortelia.com/Downloads/Icons%20for%20Our%20Time/
- (2019) Collective exhibition entitled 33rd October Salon at the Cultural Centre of Kovin in Serbia.
- (2019) Collective international exhibition entitled III Art Encounters in the House of King Peter I at the Cultural Centre “House of King Peter I” in Belgrade (from October 28th to November 9th 2019).
- (2018) Collective exhibition of the artists’ society ‘Quay’ in Belgrade.
- (2009) Solo exhibition of drawing and painting entitled Mystagogy, The City of Athens Cultural Centre.
- (2004) Sculpture in the Vines (collective exhibition), Hunter Valley Harvest Festival, New South Wales, Australia.
- (2003) Sculpture in the Vines (collective exhibition), Hunter Valley Harvest Festival, New South Wales, Australia.
- (2002) Sculpture in the City (collective exhibition), Martin Place, Sydney, Australia.
- (2002) Solo Exhibition entitled The Movement of the Body in a Stationary Object, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
- Links to video-presentations and interviews
- Video interview about the work ‘The Scourging of Truth’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwGKdqTAS6E&feature=youtu.be
- Video interview about the work ‘Cosmic Christ / Suffering Logos’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR9lCCMY-PM&t=4s
- Presentation entitled ‘Divine Eros as Artistic Experience’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=WreqX6TS3EQ
- Video link for a paper presentation entitled Transcendental Byzantine Body: Reading Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite, Gregory of Nyssa and Plotinus in the Unfolded Marble Panels of Hagia Sophia:
- Video interviews (Pemptousia):