Untitled
1979


L'Ouvrage Interrompu
1993

BIOGRAPHY

Vojislav Jakic was born in 1932 in the village of Radobiljc, in the Yugoslavian region called Macedonia. His father was an Eastern Orthodox priest and his grandmother was a "pleureuse" or professional mourner, hired to cry and wail dramatically at funerals. After his father died, while Jakic was very young, the family moved to the town of Despotovac in Serbia, and lived in poverty on his mother's widow's pension. In 1954 Jakic began to sculpt wood into reliquaries and to make drawings in ball-point pen. One drawing is more than six hundred feet (two hundred meters) long. "This is not a drawing or a painting," he said, "but a sedimentation...." In 1970 he finished writing a long semifictional autobiography entitled Nemanikuce (translated to mean "he doesn't even have a house"), which mixes real events with imaginary terrors. Jakic continues to live and work in Despotovac.

BOOKS

The End is Near! Roger Manley. Illustrated. Bio.