Senaid Serdarevic-Seno was born in Zagreb in 1953. He graduated at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture. Since 1975. he devoted himself to cartoon publishing in numerous magazines in Croatia and abroad. He participated in almost every festival  in the world, and won many prizes and awards.

    Seno was one of the founders of the Croatian Cartoonist Association and was the   Secretary and the President of the same at a time. He was the first Croatian representative at the European Association of Cartoonists FECO. In the weekly magazine INA he had his own section by the name of INEK. He was the organizer of numerous exhibitions that were part of the cycle called "The Chain of Laughter", and of numerous international festivals in Croatia.

    From 1978. to 1990. he was employed at ZAGREBPLAST, and from 1990. to 1993. at INA-OKI as a public relation agent. 

    From 1993. to January 31st 1999. he had his own private business. His company ART FORMA was successful in project engineering and constructing fair interiors, interiors and scenography, as well as in graphic design and book illustrations.

"...A man has to learn to live with a computer, one of favourite Serdarevic' s themes. One has to apologize to the computer if one comes home late at night, because it  controls one's life a great deal. The only problem is to find out whether the computer can give the satisfaction of  the traditional  practice given by cartoons with a pen by the ear.

It is hard to resist the cheerfulness and the laughter while watching the cartoons, as it is shown in one of Seno' s cartoons: the doll that will have to frighten the birds at the just sown field can' t resist pecking ,  tickling of a small and brave bird..."

                                         Fedor Kritovac

                           

"...There are few people today who give to others their agitated soul and their personality. However there are even less of them who are ready to listen and understand others. It is hard to follow our own thoughts and ideas, but it is even harder to understand ideas of other people and turn them into something nice and permanent

SENO, you could done it.

You expressed your intimacy best through cartoons, you were discreet in your religion, cherishing your own and respecting someone elses opinion. 

Seno the engineer, Seno the artist, Seno the mountclimber, Seno the designer, Seno the husband and the father, Seno the computer lover, Seno the cartoonist.

SENO, how do you manage all that? Do you sleep at night? You are in a hurry, SENO! We will follow you."

      (The funeral speech given by his colleague from Zagrebplast, B.Sc. Vladimir Domovic)

 

"...He won a flattering title of the cartoonist of the year at the FECO Festival of cartoons in Edinburg (the city which was named after his son Edin). He won it for the cartoon representing a climber who takes a photograph of himself on the top of the mountain, but as there is not enough of the place for the camera, he has put it on the joint boards over the abyss.

By adjusting his hand to the soft movement of paint brush, Seno poetically follows an idea. His clearly contoured drawing matches perfectly the simplicity of ideas, without the surplus of unnecessary afterthoughts, and with this clearly concepted message childishly animated in the softness of its lines.

The strength of his drawings and ideas has smashed the pettiness of the local frame and found its refuge in the cosmopolitan cartoon."

                                 Mladen Bašic - Bibi

 

PRIZES AND REWARDS

1979.

* special prize
* 3. prize

ZAGREB, Croatia, Studio
BEOGRAD, Yugoslavia, Public army

1983.

* 1. prize

AMSTELVEEN, Holland , 1. Dutch Festival

1984.

* 3. prize
* special prize

BERINGEN, Belgium
SLAVONSKI BROD, Croatia, - "Fishes are swimming back-stroke"

1986.

* 2. prize

BERINGEN, Belgium

1987.

* special prize
* special reward

AMSTELVEEN, Holland
KOPRIVNICA, Croatia, "Food is best to eat"

1988.

* 1. prize
* 2. prize
* 3. prize
* special prize
  and public reward
* special prize
* special prize
* special reward
* special prize

KOPRIVNICA, Croatia, "Rooster isn't virgin"
BUDVA, Yugoslavia
SLAVONSKI BROD, Croatia, "Fishes are swimming back-stroke"
BERCHOUT, Belgium, "Safety gear"

ZAGREB, Croatia, Privredni Vjesnik
TRENTO, Italy, 8. festival
IMOTSKI, Croatia, "Man and rock"
ZENICA, Bosnia and Hercegovina, "Ecology"

1989.

* 1. prize
*
special prize
* special prize

EDINBURGH, England, Cartoonist of the Year
SLAVONSKI BROD, Croatia, "Fishes are swimming back-stroke"
KRAGUJEVAC, Yugoslavia, Bienall of antiwar cartoons

1990.

* special prize
* 1. prize
*
special prize
* special prize
* prize SOFECO
* special prize

EDINBURG, England
©IULAI, Litva
ODESSA, Ukraine
CUNEO, Italy
MOSKVA, Russia
VERCELLI, Italy, 8. festival

1991.

* 1. prize
*
Grand Prix
* 3. prize
* special prize

AMSTELVEEN, Holland, "Athletic"
KNOKKE-HEIST, Belgium, 30.festival
COFFS HARBOUR CITY, Australia, Rothmans
ZELINA, Croatia, "Vine"

1992.

* 3. prize
* special prize

ZELINA, Croatia, "Vine"
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, "Architechture"

1994.

* special prize

BERCHOUT, Belgium, Local politic

1995.

* special prize
* 3. prize

SEOUL, Korea, "50 years after war"
cartons
CVORAK

1996.

* special reward
* reward

VARA?DIN, Croatia, "Hunting and fishing"
SLAVONSKI BROD, Croatia, "Ecology"

1997.

* special reward

ISTANBUL, Turky, Nasreddin Hodja

Senaid Serdarevic - Seno

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