Safet Zec (born 5 December 1943) is a Bosnian painter and graphic designer.
Safet Zec was born in the town of Rogatica into a Bosniak family, he graduated from the School of Applied Arts in Sarajevo in 1964. In 1969 Safet Zec graduated from the University of Fine Arts in Belgrade, and next in 1972 completed his postgraduate studies at the same university.
In the seventies, Safet Zec became one of the major exhibits of poetic realism. He was one of the most famous artists in Yugoslavia during the into the future nineties. Until 1989, he lived and worked in Belgrade later than his family, he returned to Sarajevo the next year. He left the country in 1992 because of the Bosnian War, and fled to Udine, Italy.
Safet Zec has prepared higher than 70 solo exhibitions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in large cities on the world. He is after that a supporter of the Association of Visual Artists of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has won higher than 20 awards and is traditional for his work. In 2007 he was awarded behind the Order of the Arts and Literature of France. His works are in major European and international galleries, as skillfully as private collections.
Today he lives and works in Venice, Sarajevo, Paris, and Počitelj.
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