Boris Dragojevic
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| Birth name | Boris Vojislav Dragojevic |
| Born | July 3, 1956 Cetinje, Montenegro |
| Nationality | Montenegro |
| Field | Painting, Drawing, Writing |
| Training | Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade |
| Movement | Surrealism |
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[edit] Biography
Boris Dragojevic was born in Cetinje, Montenegro on July 3, 1956. In 1983 Boris graduated at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. He studied painting in the class of Professor Mirjana Mihac and got his Masters degree at the Department of Painting in 1986.
Dragojevic has been a member of the ULUS (Association of Visual Arts of Serbia) and free-lance artist since 1984.
[edit] Seaside motifs
Works of Boris Dragojevic present him as an artist of hyperrealism , prone to shrewd surrealistic opservation and opsessed with sea and underwater world, shores and monuments.
Dragojevic speculates, in a rather peculiar way, about life and its poetic text which follows his paintings in the catalogues. He claims: »Those propellers do not propel my submarine any more. There are too many wishes for the eyes of just one person«. These words vibrate deeper on the sight of quite extraordenary paintings »The Blue Korcula« (1999). It is a canvas full of blue light. Under the rays of imperceptible sunset, Korcula is shining, with its protruding red roofs; in the richly coloured blueness, the fish are floundering, trying to emerge to the surface, along with a big yellow turf of seaweed; from the other side comes a shoal of pink fish; dazzling surreal but familiar and warm sight, skillfully and patiently elaborated. The same mixture of undersea world, in some sense unreal, and real sea motifs – is the characteristic of other painters too.
In »Band under the false pearls«, over the group of singers the ensnared shells are glimmering, over »St George and Lady of Škrpjel«, the tiny clouds are twinkling and at the bottom a shoal of fish; in the corner, there is some kind of submarine (a motif seen in every painting: the artist’s symbol for penetrating into impenetrable) whose prepellers are moving silently.
According to Rajko Vujisic, »the perceptible and sensual world of Dragojevic, the world over and under the sea, as well as his colouristic plays and opservations recommend him as a homomediteraneus« among the painters; Dragojevic in the peculiar but expected way of his, finds the universal note and balance in the varieties of his central message.
That is all Dragojevic’s aesthtics and symbolism, somewhat strange but pure, mysterious but not at all morbid.
[edit] Solo Exhibitions
Waiting for the Ship Bound for Montenegro - Masters of Arts Exhibition, Gallery of FFA, Belgrade 1986.
Dedicated to Sergio Blazic - INA (Petrol Industry), Zagreb 1987.
Notturno 1 to 11 - Art Pavilion, Podgorica 1988.
Mediterranean Metal Magnoliaceae - Yugoslav Art Gallery, Belgrade 1994.
Between the Extremes - Ljetnjikovac Buca - Lukovic gallery, Tivat 1997.
Something in between - Sue Ryder Gallery, Herceg Novi 1997.
Mattins - Museum of Ruma 1998.
In memory of Gojko Berkuljan - Gallery Most , Podgorica 2001.
Those propellers... - Ljetnjikovac Buca - Lukovic gallery, Tivat 2001.
Each one carries own cross - Yugoslav Art Gallery, Belgrade 2002.
Brothers by sea Gallery Geca Kon, Beograd 2004.
Abysses - Gallery Open University Subotica, Subotica 2004.
Mediterranean Story - Gallery Basement, Novi Sad 2005.
20 Years of devotion - Gallery Progres, Beograd 2005.
[edit] Group Exhibitions
Contemporary Montenegrin Drawings (young) - Youth Centre, Podgorica 1983.
ULUS's New Members - Belgrade 1984.
Young Montenegrin Artists - Youth Centre, Podgorica 1984.
III Exibition of Contenporary Montenegrin Drawings - Youth Centre, Podgorica 1985.
XIV Prospective - Yugoslav Art Gallery, Belgrade 1986
SINCE 1987, THE AUTOR HAS NOT TAKEN PART IN ANY DOMESTIC GROUP EXIBITIONS
Colours of Boka - Vincent iz Kastva gallery, Istrian National Theater, Pula 2002.
