Braco Dimitrijević

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Braco Dimitrijević (born June 18, 1948 in Sarajevo ) is an artist , graphic designer and art theorist from Bosnia and Herzegovina .

life and work

Memorial plaque, Charlottenburg Palace , in Berlin-Charlottenburg
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Dimitrijević's father was the painter Vojo Dimitrijević. During his school days in what was then Yugoslavia , he had his first solo exhibition as an artist at the age of 10. After leaving school, he studied physics and mathematics until 1968 and took part in ski competitions. At the same time he was occupied with art, he wrote poems, fantastic short stories, compositions of concrete music and was interested in objet trouvés and ready-mades.

After his decision to finally become an artist, he studied art and art history at the University of Zagreb from 1968 to 1971 and sculpture at St. Martin College of Art in London from 1971 to 1973. From 1969 he worked with Goran Trbuljak in Zagreb as the group “Penzioner Tihomir Simčić”. In the 1970s he emerged as a representative of conceptual art .

In 1976 Dimitrijević received a DAAD scholarship for a one-year work stay in Berlin, and in 1977 he published the Tractatus Post Historicus , in which he theoretically substantiated his conception of art. Berlin, as a place full of historical references, inspired the artist to create several work cycles. One of the artist's most spectacular works is a memorial in the garden of Berlin 's Charlottenburg Palace . The project, started during his stay in 1976, was not implemented until 1979 with financial support from the Berlin Senate, the Berlin Lotto Society, the DAAD and Charlottenburg Palace.

In 1976 his first installation Triptychos Post Historicus in the Neue Galerie in Berlin marked a turning point in his work. From now on, the works consisted of a famous painting, an object of daily use and a vegetable product. Braco Dimitrijević carefully arranged these objects from art, everyday life, nature in order to question the traditional value systems with the effect of the overall composition that arises from the relationships between the objects. In 1977 he took part in documenta 6 in Kassel.

Dimitrijević took an active part in the debate about postmodernism by contrasting postmodernism with his own visual and theoretical post history . Post history excludes evolutionism in art, as does chronology. For Dimitrijević, this results in a “loss of style” and the associated classifications in art history. In his work, style elements from different epochs are processed into a “mix of styles”. Dimitrijević in particular takes up these thoughts with his installations .

Since 1980 the artist has been more interested in the antinomy of art and nature. In this way he creates new structures from familiar elements. A series is also dedicated to the problem of art and nature in which he photographs well-known works of art together with living animals. With all of his oeuvre, in which he examines the role of chance in history, conventions and historical mechanisms in the creation of myths and beliefs, Dimitrijević endeavors to relativize existing aesthetic value judgments and to point out new ones arising from postmodernism .

For documenta IX in Kassel in 1992 he exhibited works by the French painter Théodore Géricault , which were hanging in lunatic asylums in Paris at the beginning of the 19th century. In this subsequent staging , he shifts the focus with art, which is not in the strict schema of a natural science System can be inserted. In this experiment, which runs co-existence of nature and art peacefully and without any conflict .

Dimitrijević lives alternately in Paris and London .

Awards

  • 1975 Prize of the Yugoslav Youth Association. (SKOJ)
  • 1978 Arts Council Award, London
  • 1979 Prix Jean Dominique Ingrès, Paris
  • 1992 Chevalier des arts et lettres, Paris

Exhibitions

Museum review

  • Municipal Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach

Graphic works (incomplete)

  • Graphic cycle Triptychos Post Historicus from 1989

literature

  • Christoph Becker: Short guide documenta 9 . Edition Cantz, Stuttgart 1992, p. 215.
  • Helga Walter Dressler (foreword): Back to nature, but how? Art of the last 20 years. Städtische Galerie im Prinz-Max-Palais , Karlsruhe, April 23 to July 3, 1988. Karlsruhe 1988, ISBN 3-923344-11-2 .
  • Hannelore Kersting (arrangement): Contemporary art. 1960 to 2007 . Municipal Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-924039-55-4 .

Web links

Commons : Braco Dimitrijević  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Dimitrijević, Braco at the DAAD's Berlin artist program.
  2. ↑ Helga Walter Dressler (foreword): Back to nature, but how? Art of the last 20 years. Municipal gallery in the Prinz-Max-Palais. Karlsruhe 1988, p. 58.
  3. ↑ Christoph Becker: Short guide documenta 9 . Edition Cantz, Stuttgart 1992, p.
personal data
SURNAME Dimitrijević, Braco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bosnian artist, graphic artist and art theorist
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Sarajevo