Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Viktor Mitic is a Serbian-born Canadian painter and sculptor living in Toronto. He is known for the use of firearms in creating his art, a skill he acquired during national service in his native Yugoslavia. One of his most notable works is Blasted Beaverbrook, which New Brunswick's provincial gallery, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, commissioned for an exhibition in 2009.Mitic's 2008 work Hole Jesus, a portrait of Jesus created by firing 22-calibre bullets at canvas from an M14 rifle, was displayed at Toronto's Trias Gallery and attracted media coverage. Mitic told the Biggs Museum of American Art that he was inspired to create the work after an art dealer told him his work ought to be more 'penetrating'. Screw Harper, a Mitic portrait of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper made out of screws, featured in an exhibition titled "Art or Deconstruction" in Pages Bookstore, Toronto.His first show in Japan at Muramatsu Gallery in Tokyo was supported by Canadian and Serbian Embassy in Tokyo 2008.In 1995 Mitic has finished painting a portrait of Hon. Jean Chrétien and has met Mr. Chrétien in December of the same year at Prime Ministers office in Ottawa for the official presentation of the portrait with the support of Hon. Jean Augustine an MP from Etobicoke-Lakeshore.Mitic has also exhibited alongside his son, Ansel Yamamoto Mitic, in a show titled Duet at Toronto's IndexG gallery.In 2009 Viktor Mitic joined Odon Wagner Contemporary, which exhibited his famed "Blasted Guernica" at the international exhibition Art Toronto (formerly TIAF) this past October. Viktor Mitic's first solo show at Odon Wagner Contemporary opens to the public on December 11, 2009. The exhibition titled "DEALERS: 36 portraits of Toronto's Art Dealers" will launch in conjunction with the book of the same title at the Odon Wagner Contemporary. To view the collection of 36 paintings, visit In 2010 Mitic has exhibited his controversial bullet hole paintings in a show titled "Art or War" at Moos Gallery in Toronto and was featured in various television programs and newspapers globally. The same year, a book and a DVD under the same title was published in Toronto featuring Mitic's art.. }
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- Viktor_Mitic abstract "Viktor Mitic is a Serbian-born Canadian painter and sculptor living in Toronto. He is known for the use of firearms in creating his art, a skill he acquired during national service in his native Yugoslavia. One of his most notable works is Blasted Beaverbrook, which New Brunswick's provincial gallery, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, commissioned for an exhibition in 2009.Mitic's 2008 work Hole Jesus, a portrait of Jesus created by firing 22-calibre bullets at canvas from an M14 rifle, was displayed at Toronto's Trias Gallery and attracted media coverage. Mitic told the Biggs Museum of American Art that he was inspired to create the work after an art dealer told him his work ought to be more 'penetrating'. Screw Harper, a Mitic portrait of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper made out of screws, featured in an exhibition titled "Art or Deconstruction" in Pages Bookstore, Toronto.His first show in Japan at Muramatsu Gallery in Tokyo was supported by Canadian and Serbian Embassy in Tokyo 2008.In 1995 Mitic has finished painting a portrait of Hon. Jean Chrétien and has met Mr. Chrétien in December of the same year at Prime Ministers office in Ottawa for the official presentation of the portrait with the support of Hon. Jean Augustine an MP from Etobicoke-Lakeshore.Mitic has also exhibited alongside his son, Ansel Yamamoto Mitic, in a show titled Duet at Toronto's IndexG gallery.In 2009 Viktor Mitic joined Odon Wagner Contemporary, which exhibited his famed "Blasted Guernica" at the international exhibition Art Toronto (formerly TIAF) this past October. Viktor Mitic's first solo show at Odon Wagner Contemporary opens to the public on December 11, 2009. The exhibition titled "DEALERS: 36 portraits of Toronto's Art Dealers" will launch in conjunction with the book of the same title at the Odon Wagner Contemporary. To view the collection of 36 paintings, visit In 2010 Mitic has exhibited his controversial bullet hole paintings in a show titled "Art or War" at Moos Gallery in Toronto and was featured in various television programs and newspapers globally. The same year, a book and a DVD under the same title was published in Toronto featuring Mitic's art.".