The exhibition of one of the most important Montenegrin artists, Miodrag Dada Đurić, will be opened tonight in Podgorica, in the space of JU Museums and Galleries of Podgorica, at 20 pm. The institution announces that the Podgorica art audience will be presented with paintings and drawings from different periods of the artist's creativity.
"This is not the first exhibition of Miodrag Dada Đurić, which was organized in the JU Museums and Galleries of Podgorica, but it is certainly the most comprehensive and significant. Through the given exhibition, we will introduce you to the creative work of one of the most famous and significant Montenegrin artists, who is a representative both at the domestic and at the world level. His specificity in expression, content of motifs and choice of topics make him an exceptional artist", the press release on the occasion of the exhibition points out.
The aim of the exhibition, they state, is to express gratitude to Dado Đurić and point out the importance of his appearance in contemporary art. "Dado as an artist, a visionary, represents a phenomenon, because he responded to the spirit of the times with his work and work and occupied a special place in contemporary art. Many distinguished theoreticians, art historians, philosophers, poets, gallerists, contemporary artists wrote about Dada", say the JU Museums and Galleries.
In the catalogue, which will accompany this exhibition, certain texts of important personalities who gave an overview of Dad's work were selected, among them: Daniel Cordier, Henri Michaud, Zerment Vait, Gilles Deleuze, Gaetan Picon, Alain Bosquet, Andre Deschamps, and among domestic authors, we have included Mladen Lompar, Olga Perović and Slobodan Pura Đurić, because they deal with the essence of Dada Đurić's creative work in a special way.
"With Dada, we are far from aesthetics, we are in the center of humanity that is bleeding (...) His paintings are so disturbing that after a long time we experience them in our hearts as a guilty conscience", noted, among the first, Danijel Kordije.
Such significant exhibitions of artists such as Dado are a unique opportunity to see, that is, to see the light of day, those works that are in the museum depots of other institutions, and especially in private collections, inaccessible to the general public. What makes this exhibition special is the fact that you can see Dada's earliest works, from 1949 to 2008, that for the first time the Podgorica and Montenegrin public will see works from the private collections of collectors from Montenegro. They also make up most of the works in the exhibition itself, including three capital works in this exhibition from the collections of gallerists and collectors Daniel Cordier and Pierre Nahon.
"This exhibition will be proof that collectors are no less important guardians than the oblivion of an artist's image and work, especially since institutional protection rests on an obligation, unlike a private collection, which is solely the materialization of artistic sensibility and respect," say the Museum and Galleries. .
The selection of presented works is only a part of what could be achieved at this moment, and without a doubt, many collectors are not included, the announcement states, adding that this exhibition is an incentive and invitation to all collectors and lovers of works of art, to cooperate with this institution , show the artistic treasures of Montenegro.
The terrible and gentle humanity of the French Montenegrin
The director of the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris (Center Georges Pompidou Paris), Zerment Vaita, wrote a special text on the occasion of this exhibition:
“Melted partition, the entrails of hybrid beings, of worthless organs and things. Sperm and black blood gushing out onto the glass. Blind fumes for showers of living corpses. Every frame here is a house and a window and opens onto nearby precipices. As usual, from his first paintings, Dado, like a cross, crucify the memory on the vertical lands of repressed horrors, where the violence of ordinary everyday life rejects any neutrality and sells itself to sugary ecstasies. The impossible and hallucinatory visions, the awful and tender humanity of this French Montenegrin, are haunting the press all over the planet today: they question the mirrors of our dwellings right up to the zenith of our eyes".
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