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1908
Born in Bor, a mining town in Serbia, where his family lived
for a short period of time. He took the name of his birthplace
as part of his pseudonym, while Vane is short for Stevan.
He was the third, youngest child. His sister Seva married
Marko Ristic.
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1914–1924
Continues his education in France with other pupils from Serbia,
and from there returns to Zagreb where his family was living
at the time.
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1925
Publishes his first work in the magazine Testimonies and finishes
secondary school in Belgrade.
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1926
Makes his first photographs in Vrnjacka Banja.
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1927
Enrols in Law School in Paris, and spends most of his time
with the French Surrealists.
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1928
Inspired by Max Ernst’s paintings, starts experimenting with
“crumpled paper” and “wrinkled pictures” techniques, of which
the canvas Kugla sa algama na prividnom horizontu (The Ball
with Algae on the Apparent Horizon) has been preserved.
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1928–1929
Makes a series of photograms with M. Ristic, of which some
were published in the almanac Nemoguce–L’impossible (1930).
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1929
With Koca Popovic, Robert Desnos and other artists assembled
around the Parisian journal Revue Du Cinéma (No. 3), signs
the protest Covek od ukusa (A Man of Taste) against the film
distributor who shortened the film version of the series The
Mysteries of New York. With M. Ristic makes a book of collages
and texts entitled M’Vraua, in a single copy, which was lost.
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1930
He is one of the signatories of the Surrealist manifesto and
contributes to the Nemoguce – L’impossible, which in addition
to photograms publishes his collages and picturesC Na trzistu
nemih pesama (On the Market of Silent Poems), and Edip u prostoru
(Oedipus in Space), which were later lost.
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1930
Jean–Paul Dreyfus dedicates his review of a Fritz Lang film
to him in the Parisian journal Revue Du Cinéma.
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1931–1932
Contributes to Surrealism
Here and Now.
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1932
With M. Ristic publishes the book Anti–zid (Anti–Wall).
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1933
Writes a personal letter to Salvador Dali from Belgrade (31
December 1932) published in the Parisian journal Le surréalisme
au service de la révolution (No. 6, 46–47).
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1934
Writes on film and psychoanalysis in the Belgrade journal
Danas (Today).
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1936
As a member of the Film Cultural Cooperative in Zemun makes
a documentary film about Belgrade. Writes film reviews for
Politika.
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1938–1941
As a Ph.D. holder he is appointed assistant professor of the
Law Faculty in Subotica.
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1944
Has to leave Yugoslavia undercover and settles in London.
Makes a series of collages.
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1964–1965
Makes a cycle of Surrealist pictures experimenting with unconventional
materials.
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1966
Becomes a member of the Free Painters and Sculptors Association
in London.
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1973
Moves to Oxford and contributes to the True Thomas, Orbis
and Argo journals, under the pseudonym Stevan Zivadin.
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1984 Becomes
a life member of the Oxford University Geological Society
and a member of the University Anthropological Society.
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1986
Deposits four crates of archival material – books, photographs,
documents, letters and similar in a London storehouse, two
of which were mislaid and lost.
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1990
After his first one–man retrospective show donates his works
to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade.