Miodrag Djuric, known as Dado
Born in Cetinje, Montenegro, in 1933
Painter and engraver, lives and works in France

After studying at the school of Fine Arts in Herveg Novin, and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Dado started painting in 1951, figures in a very different style from the Social Realism and the conformist appearances.
He arrives in France in 1956, at 23 years old, and worked in a lithography workshop where he met Jean Dubuffet. From the end of the 50s to the late 60s, the two artists had a mutual influence on their pictorral production, as well as on their edition. After the Second World War, some artists, followers of an off-the-cuff painting, feel the need to deeply reconsider the state of things. Their art, named “informal”, owes nothing to the past, and is not subjected to any influence.

Dubuffet introduces Daniel Cordier to Dado, who will soon become his agent. He organized for him several exhibitions in Paris, Frankfurt, and New York (1958-1964). Immediately adopted, Dado’s work led to an important retrospective exhibition in 1970, at the National Center for Contemporary Art in Paris.

He first worked in Paris, and then in Courcelles in Normandy, before settling at the Herouval grinder. He went to New York for the first time in 1962. Visits in Brittany, Corsica, an adventure in Central Africa, in 1974, a trip to Roma, and quick trips to New York are landmarks in the life of this lonelier, who is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary painters of our century.