Dimitrije
Popović - biography
Dimitrije Popović was born on 4 March 1951 in Cetinje (Montenegro).
He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in1976.
During his stay in Paris he met the Parisian collector Davrier
in 1974, and in 1978 exhibited as part of his collection
in the Alexander Braumuller Gallery with the artists Salvador
Dali, Ernst Fuchs, Victor Brauner, Dado Đurić, Leonora Fini
and others.
In Pforzheim the Galeria Liberta and the Universal Fine
Arts from Washington organised his joint exhibition of prints
with Salvador Dali in 1982. In the same year, to mark the
great jubilee Leonardo a Milano 1482 – 1982, he exhibited
the cycle of drawings Omaggio a Leonardo in the Milan Palazzo
Sorami.
At the 27th International Art Festival Due mondi the town
of Spoleto, in which that festival was held, organised his
exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints.
In the jubilee year of two thousand years of Christianity
he exhibited in Rome a cycle of crucifixions Corpus mysticum
in Sant Andrea al Quirinale, Santa Maria del Popolo – I
Agostiniana arte sacra conteporanea and in the Pantheon.
He is one of the fifteen artists, art critics and philosophers
(M. Botta, M. Cacciari, M. Paladino and P. Portghesi) who
were invited to write an answer to the Letter of Pope John
Paul II to Artists. The answers were published in the book
Artists Answer Pope John Paul II, published by Sri spa-Milano,
2003.
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