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Dado

Dado

Dado, whose real name was Miodrag Djuric, was an artist born on October 4, 1933, in Montenegro, then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Dado moved to Paris in 1956, where he began exhibiting his work. Over the years, he gained international recognition for his distinctive artistic output. His paintings and engravings were shown in numerous galleries and museums around the world, including the MoMA and the Guggenheim Foundation in New York, as well as the Centre Pompidou, and he was honored with many prestigious awards throughout his career.

Despite his fame, Dado remained true to his artistic independence and continued to explore new creative territories until his death in 2010 in Paris.

Works

Sans titre

Sans titre

Violaine

Violaine

Astrid

Astrid

LES OISEAUX D’IRÈNE – Dessin préparatoire

LES OISEAUX D’IRÈNE – Dessin préparatoire

Anatomie et physiologie

Anatomie et physiologie

Flavio

Flavio

H.N Buffon

H.N Buffon

BOMBYX

BOMBYX

Biography

Miodrag Đurić, known as Dado (a nickname given by his mother), was born in 1933 in Cetinje, Montenegro. Orphaned by his mother at the age of eleven, he carried painful memories of the years of Montenegro’s occupation, first by Italy, then by Germany from 1943. After the war, thanks to a scholarship, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, where he attended the classes of Marko Čelebonović, who encouraged him to go to Paris.

Exhibitions

Videos

Dado • Quentin Garel

Vidéo

Dado • Quentin Garel

Career

Expositions personnelles (Sélection)

2024-2025

“Dado: Histoire naturelle, 1953-2000”, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade.

2024

“Portrait en fragments”, Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris

2018
« Dado, de l’intime au mythe », rétrospective au musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau, France
2015
« Dado, Horama », rétrospective à l’Abbaye d’Auberive, Auberive, France
2012
« Dado. Danse macabre », Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Allemagne
2011
Salle en hommage à Dado, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Salle en hommage à Dado, Les AbattoirsToulouse, France
« Hommage à Miodrag Djuric, DADO. Autour de trois grands triptyques », galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France « Hommage à Dado », Musée régional d’art contemporain Languedoc-RoussillonSérignan
2010
Exposition universelle de Shanghai, Pavillon Monténégrin, Chine Église Saint-Martin, Montjavoult, France