Slobodan "Braco" Dimitrijević (born 18 June 1948) is a Bosnian conceptual artist. His works deal mainly with history and the individual's place in it. He lives and works in

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. He has exhibited internationally since the 1970s, including at the

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in 1985. He has participated in

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(1972, 1977 and 1992) and the

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(1976, 1982, 1990, 1993 and 2009). His works are held in the collection of the

, MoMA

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, and that of the

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, among others.

Early life & work

Braco Dimitrijević was born on 18 June 1948 in

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, FPR Yugoslavia. His father was the painter

Vojo Dimitrijević Vojo Dimitrijević (Sarajevo 20 May 1910 – 12 August 1980, Sarajevo) was one of the most notable Yugoslav painters. As a young painter he was one of the pre-1945 generation giving precedence to social themes along with Danijel Ozmo, Ismet Muje ...

, one of the most famous modern artists in Yugoslavia. He started painting at the age of 5 and was featured in a TV show entitled ''Filmske Novosti'' (Film News) in 1957. His first conceptual work dates back to 1963. He went on to study at Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, from which he graduated in 1971. He then studied at

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from 1971 to 1973. In 1976, he wrote ''Tractatus Post Historicus'', which formed the theoretical basis of his early work.

Casual Passers-by

In the 1970s, Dimitrijevic gained attention when he began his ''Casual Passer-by'' series. The work features very big close-up photographic portraits of everyday people that were hung on buildings and billboard in different cities in Europe and America. He then went on to produce memorial plaques in honour of other people that he met. About the one he made for the

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's "Terrae Motus" collection he said: "I Stopped the first man i saw in the street, explained to him what my work was and then asked him to be the model for the foto".

Animals

His work from the 1980s which joined animals and works of art would go on to become an exhibition in 1998 at the Paris Zoo that was visited by over a million people.

New work

His ''Triptychos Post Historicus'' installations feature paintings by old or modern masters in conjunction with everyday objects and fruits/vegetables. More than 500 of these installations exist. Controversy arose when a man who visited the exhibition at the Tate realized that the paintings in question were not copies but the originals and reported this to

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who then wrote about it.

Exhibitions

* 2017: ''Braco Dimitrijević. Retrospektiva,'' Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia * 2016: ''Braco Dimitrijević'': ''Retrospective,'' GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy * 2016
''Braco Dimitrijević – My Berlin Years,'' Daniel Marzona, Berlin, Germany
* 2014: ''Early London Years 1971 – 1979,'' MOT International, London, UK * 2013: ''Braco Dimitrijević'', National Art Gallery Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria * 2012: ''Sailing to Post-History,'' Latvian National Museum of Arts, Riga, Latvia * 2011: ''Louvre is my Studio, Street is my Museum'', White Box, New York, USA * 2011: ''Braco Dimitrijević'', Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg * 2009: ''Future Post History'', Collateral Event 53rd Venice Biennial, Ca’ Pesaro, Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna, Venice, Italy * 2009: ''Louvre is my studio, street is my museum'', Musée d’Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France * 2008: ''Braco Dimitrijević: Retrospective Exhibition'', Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary * 2008: ''Louvre is my Studio, Street is my Museum'', National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest, Romania * 2005: ''Triptychos Post Historicus'', Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France * 2005: ''Braco Dimitrijević,''

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, St. Petersburg, Russia * 2005: ''Braco Dimitrijević,'' Mudima – Fondazione per l´Art Contemporanea, Milan, Italy * 2004: ''Braco Dimitrijević'', Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia * 2000:''Triptychos Post Historicus'', Pori Taidemuseo / Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland * 1996: ''Braco Dimitrijević'',

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, Düsseldorf, Germany * 1995: ''Braco Dimitrijević: against historic sense of gravity'',

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, Darmstadt, Germany * 1994: ''Braco Dimitrijević: slow as light, fast as thought'', Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria * 1987: ''Braco Dimitrijević – für Malewitsch, Mondrian, Einstein'', Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany * 1987: ''Triptichos Post Historicus'',

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, Dijon, France * 1984: ''Culturescapes. 1976 – 1984'',

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, Bern, Switzerland /

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, Cologne, Germany * 1979: ''Photographs and Installations'',

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, London, UK * 1975: ''Braco Dimitrijevic,'' Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Federal Republic of Germany * 1974: ''Braco Dimitrijevic'', Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb, former Yugoslavia

References

External links

Braco Dimitrijević

Galerie TORRI

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