Miodrag Djuric

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Dado in the early 1970s

Miodrag Djuric (original spelling Miodrag Đurić ), called Dado (born October 4, 1933 in Cetinje , Kingdom of Yugoslavia , † November 27, 2010 in Pontoise , France ), was a Yugoslav-French painter and graphic artist .

life and work

After his mother's death in 1944, Miodrag was taken in by an uncle who lived as a painter in Ljubljana . Miodrag Djuric studied first at the Academy of Fine Arts in Herceg Novi , then at the Academy in Belgrade . In 1956 he went to Paris and initially worked as an assistant in lithography . He got to know Jean Dubuffet and Roberto Matta , who promoted him.

In his studio near Paris he painted in oil on canvas, created drawings and graphics , as well as sculptures and assemblages . His art is surrealistic , plays with the irritation, the ambiguity between the organic and the mineral, the body and the landscape. Fantasy creatures seem to grow out of the rock. In 1958 the first exhibition took place in Daniel Cordier's studio . In the following year he organized the international surrealism exhibition in Paris. Thanks to his success in this exhibition, Dado was able to buy the Hérouval mill .

Other companions of his were Bernard Réquichot , who also staged body metamorphoses , as well as the surrealists Hans Bellmer and his companion Unica Zürn . The poet Georges Limbour wrote that everything in Dado's pictures seems to be breaking, everything is riddled with fine cracks and looks as if it would fall apart in the next moment.

Two further exhibitions took place in 1961 and 1964 in Daniel Cordier's gallery. He was invited twice to a documenta in Kassel : in 1964 to documenta III and also in 1977 to documenta 6 , each in the drawing department . In 1970 a major retrospective of his works took place in the Center national d'Art contemporain in Paris, but it did not mean the end of his work. He painted large-format diptychs depicting imaginative, artfully designed monster creatures, giant armored insects with sharp claws. These cavorted in cold blue light between ruins. His work continued to develop in the direction of a somewhat mannered death romance until 1994, but then took a completely new direction.

In that year he bought Les Orpellières , a closed winery near Sérignan in the Hérault department . Until 1999 he painted on masonry and created sculptures there. He then decorated the roof beams of the Saint-Luc chapel in Gisors . His last major work in 2002 was the artistic design of an old stone house near Fécamp .

Since 1981 he has been a corresponding member of the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts . His works can be found in many museums, galleries and private collections around the world.

Exhibitions

literature

  • Philippe Dagen: Miodrag Djuric, dit Dado , Le Monde , December 3, 2010, p. 21
  • documenta III. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand Drawings; Industrial design, graphics; Kassel / Cologne 1964

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personal data
SURNAME Djuric, Miodrag
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dado; Đurić, Miodrag
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav-French painter and printmaker
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Cetinje
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 2010
Place of death Pontoise