Summary
Dado Đurić: Thoughts on...
The painter Dado Đurić was born in Cetinje in 1933, and after the Second World War he went to Ljubljana to live with his uncle, the artist Mirko Kujačić. After returning to Montenegro, he attended the Art School in Herceg Novi, and then entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, in the class of Professor Marko Čelebonović. In Belgrade, Đurić soon became part of the "Mediala" group, and then the "Baltazar" group of friends. Since moving to Paris in 1956, he has actively participated in the French art scene, and he had his first solo exhibition in the artistic metropolis two years later. He was a corresponding member of the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, and in 2009 he represented Montenegro at the 53rd Venice Biennale. He died at the end of November 2010 in Paris at the age of 78, after a long and serious illness, and was buried in Cetinje.
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