DANTE EXHIBITION 700

2021-08-05 19:00

Gallery of Solidarity

Thursday, August 5
Gallery of Solidarity, 7 p.m.
DANTE EXHIBITION 700
 
DIMITRIJE POPOVIĆ, author of the exhibition
 
 
“My cycle Omaggio a Dante did not come into being as a direct fusion of a poetic text into an artistic expression. I was never interested in illustration. What attracted me to the Divine Comedy, more precisely to the Inferno, was that inner expression of Dante’s poetic images. In its infernal functionalism I have found inspiration for my compositions. My Omaggio is a kind of artistic allegory that came from the poetic images of the Inferno.
 
The scenes from the Inferno are so expressive and precise in their depiction that they have become “sculptural” among the commentators of Dante’s work. Therefore, we encounter a kind of paradox: on the one hand, these scenes are suitable for illustration, while on the other hand, precisely because of their clarity and precision, they make illustration inadequate – almost excessive. (- - -)
 
These are all images in which there is this inner movement of the dark energy of an absurd time. Therefore, my cycle Omaggio a Dante can also be interpreted as a kind of transfer between Dante’s medieval and our modern hell.”
Dimitrije Popović
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Dimitrije Popović, painter and writer, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. In 1978, he exhibited his work together with Salvador Dalí, Ernst Fuchs, Victor Brauner, Dado Đurić, and Leonor Fini at the Alexander Braumüller Gallery in Paris. In Pforzheim, in 1982, the Liberta Gallery and Universal Fine Arts in Washington staged a joint exhibition of his and Salvador Dalí's works. Thus far, Dimitrije Popović has had seventy solo exhibitions and more than three hundred group exhibitions, such as the series of works Omaggio a Leonardo exhibited in the Palazzo Sormani in Milan, the Corpus Mysticum series of works inspired by the crucifixion, in Rome, and the Song Without Words installation at UNESCO in Paris, among others. He has won around thirty national and international awards for fine arts and literature, such as the Gold Medal for the sculpture Heaven's Door at the Thirteenth Dantesca International Biennial in Ravenna, the Andrea Mantegna Medal for painting, and the Giotto e Il Suo Tempo Medal and Award, among others. Dimitrije Popović's work has been the focus of thirteen monographs and fifteen documentaries. He has published five books of essays on fine arts and four fiction books. He is a member of the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Duklja Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Russian Academy of Literature, the Slavic Academy of Literature and Arts (Bulgaria), the Montenegrin PEN Center, the Croatian Writers' Association, and the Croatian Writers' Society.