Kombank Hall Gallery in Belgrade, after the exhibition of the recently deceased painter Miloš Šobajić, presents from today the paintings of the Montenegrin artist Miodrag Dada Đurić (1933-2010) from the collection of Novica Jovović.
Đurić's painting exhibition, as announced, will open up "completely new questions about art and life and bring answers imbued with colors, elements and nature that we have not experienced before - a nature far from reality, a nature that offers a new reality."
Novica Jovović's collection brings to the exhibition space the spirit of Dad's painting, which raises ultimate questions. As he described in "Dad's specter of existence". Branko Kukić, "between the sources of Dad's painting and the questions it poses in today's time, there is a gaping human abyss, a primordial abyss from which the eternal human question cries out: Why?"
As Kukić states in the review, "above that abyss, like a watchful eye wide-eyed watching this helpless human wonder, rises NATURE, MOTHER OF EVERYTHING, amazed at MAN'S ALIENATION AND FALL." Opposing man and nature, as two ends of the same beginning".
Đurić, according to Kukić, points to man's imperfection, to his evil deed and to the evil time in which that deed takes on the forms and features of horror.
"His painting is, on the one hand, a history of man's folly, of suffering due to that folly, and on the other, a history of the triumph of Nature, of its perfection in relation to man, on the other," stated Kukić.
Đurić himself said: "Can you imagine that painting leads somewhere; it leads nowhere but your own hole. It's a scary one-way street. It has the taste of physical pain that eats away at us".
"Each of my paintings is a rejection of the world I live in, what they call civilization today," Đurić once said.
In 2012, the Montenegrin art gallery "Miodrag Dado Đurić" was opened in Cetinje in his honor, and since 2002, the Atelier Dado, opened in the artist's former studio, has been operating in that city, as part of the National Museum of Montenegro.
In 2010, Galerija Haos also organized a great tribute to him in Belgrade, which marked 15 years of its existence with an exclusive exhibition of his drawings, sketchpads and engravings.
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