Native house of sculptor Ljubinka Savic - Grasi

Ljubinka Savić Grasi was born in the village of Ilino near Boljevac. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and postgraduate studies in Belgrade in the class of prof. Alojza Dolinara. She married the famous Yugoslav stonemason and associate of Ivan Meštrović, Giuseppe Pino Gracia. She was a very prolific sculptor. She mostly worked in plaster, terracotta and bronze. She has exhibited at numerous exhibitions in the country and abroad. [1] Ljubinka Savić Grasi is the author of numerous sculptures, busts and plaques. Among her most famous works is a plaque with the image of the greatest satirist in the history of Serbian literature, Vladimir Bulatović Viba, which is awarded as part of the Viba Award, established in 1994. on that occasion, her son Zefirino Grasi, otherwise the director of Politika, said at one of the Vib awards: The work of Vlado Viba was once done by my mother Ljubinka Savić Grasi, an academic sculptor, and it was created by the fact that after coming to ""Politikin Zabavnik"" in 1985, I was hired as a deputy of Vlado Bulatović Viba and started hanging out with him. My mother, even though she was immobile at the time, could still work, and by participating in our socializing, she came up with the idea to make a plaque. There are several other of her other works with Vib's character, but this version awarded to aphorists is the best