One must consider Vladimir Veličković for what he is: a museum power and even the greatest Serbian painter alive! A man born in Belgrade in 1935, then quickly set on the roads of the world. After a first exhibition in 1970 at the Modern Art Museum of Paris, he represented his former country Yugoslavia at the Venice Biennale in 1972. He is a prodigious painter whose drawings are immediately recognizable on any continent; they seem signed by a scalpel, vibrant, bloody, and astonishing.This