Today I got photographs of all paintings by Sebastijan Vojvoda exhibited in Galerija Forum in the center of Zagreb. Now I am certain that twelve of them are plagiarisms, of which five are identical to my paintings. He has fooled around with the rest of them, but only just. The underlying compositions of mine are always loud and clear. How can I be so sure of Vojvoda’s misdeed? I just remembered one of my postcards that I was sending to artists in Istria before my move from Britain. As luck would have it, I had a bunch of them in my knapsack. The postcard shows a photograph of my gallery in Reading taken in 2001. My paintings on their battens are lining all the walls. The twelve plagiarized originals are there in plain sight. I must have sent at least a hundred of such postcards to Istria in late 2002 and early 2003. At the time, I had a romantic notion that I would soon strike a warm relationship with Istrian artists. Vojvoda might have even been among the recipients of the fucking postcard. Otherwise, a friend of his got it and gave it to him. There is one particular painting on the postcard that no artist could ever paint by fooling around with geometric art. It shows four of my symbols from the early Eighties in a very peculiar arrangement. Vojvoda stupidly plagiarized it as though there was no tomorrow. He did not change an iota. Together with eleven other paintings on the same postcard, it offers the proof positive. Plagiarism pure and simple. Amen.

Addendum (May 20, 2015)

Today I found an article in Glas Istre (The Voice of Istria) about yet another exhibition of Sebastijan Vojvoda, this time somewhere in Istria. The photograph that accompanies the article shows an additional painting plagiarized straight from the postcard in question. It did not appear in the Zagreb show. One more time, Vojvoda is quoted as going on and on about geometry that comes his way from everywhere he looks. That fateful postcard of mine he does not mention, it goes without saying. Anyhow, now I am sure of thirteen Vojvoda’s paintings that were plagiarized from it. A lucky number, or what?