Bartch

Bartch is the pseudonym or pen name of the artist Silvije Petranovic.

BARTCH is a film director, writer and contemporary visual artist working in paintings, sculptures, print making & film.

Both a film director and a painter, S.P. Bartch often investigates the links between these two practices. He concentrated on film, returned to painting and back! He never limited himself to just one single material or product (film, painting, sculpture, ready-made...)

He was born in 1959 into the family of the artist Tomislav Petranović and school teacher Štefica in Nova Gradiška, Croatia. BARTCH spent his childhood, which he described as magical, in the nearby village of Prvča.

He graduated Film Directing at the Zagreb Film Academy. As a film director he directed several feature films (“Nobody will laugh”, “The Society of Jesus” , “The Brave Adventures of a Little Shoemaker”). In 1981, he added Bartch to his name and has used it ever since to identify himself as a painter. He started his public artistic work in 1982. He is a member of the Croatian Freelance Artists Association.