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Stipe Nobilo was born in 1945 in Lumbarda on the island of Korčula. He studied visual arts at the Pedagogical Academy in Split under professor Ante Kaštelančić. He graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Zagreb in 1971 in the class of professor Šime Perić. After receiving his diploma he collaborated for a number of years as stone-cutter in the sculptor Lujo Lozica’s atelier working on stone figures (“Four Seasons of the Year” for the Intercontinental Hotel in Zagreb). In 1973 he met the painter Ivo Dulčić and together with him he worked on a number of projects in the mosaic technique (for the elementary school Lapad in Dubrovnik, for the monastery church in Kreševo and the Stations of the Cross for the parish church in Brusje on the island of Hvar). In 1976 he had an independent exhibition in Gallery Zagreb. This was followed by a succession of presentations and restoration and stone-cutting undertakings. As part of the project headed by engineer Ante Kršinić and Lujo Lozica he cut decorative plastics during renovations of significant buildings (the cathedral in Osijek, The Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb, the fountain for the Ina-Naftaplin building in Zagreb and others).
He overcame his existential emotional split attachment to Lmbarda, the place of his birth, and Zagreb, where he had been living for 20 years, in 1987 when he returned home for good and took up the uncertain fate of a professional painter. The sea and landscapes have always been attractive painterly motifs which Nobilo paints in his expressionist manner between the real and the abstract, mirroring the artist’s feelings and his life on the island.
WRITERS
Tales written by:
- Slobodan Novak
- Mirko Kovač
- Predrag Matvejević
- Luko Paljetak
- Joško Božanić
- Jakša Fiamengo
- Daša Drndić
- Vesna Parun
- Slavenka Drakulić
- Giacomo Scotti
- Arsen Dedić
- Miroslav Radman
- Senko Karuza
- Radovan Marčić
- Anica Kisić
- Damir Miloš
- Javor Novak
- Ranko Marinković
- Stipe Nobilo
- Miroslav Mićanović