Braco Dimitrijević

The Sarajevo-born artist Braco Dimitrijevmc has forged a strongly personal and original artistic path through the great movements of the postwar period, from kinetic and op art to conceptual and performance art. Throughout his work, he has returned to questions of fame and fate: what is it that catapults certain people into the historical limelight, and what causes others to be mere "casual passersby"? Dimitrijevi? gained international attention in the 1970s for his supersized portraits of unknown subjects hung in large public spaces, and ever since his work has been focused on questions of "post-history," a set of ideas he formulated in 1976. This monograph provides a comprehensive look at his arresting theory in action.

Braco Dimitrijevic

Lóránd Hegyi

Braco Dimitrijevic gained international fame in the 1970s with his "Casual Passersby" series, in which gigantic photo-portraits of ordinary people were displayed on façades and billboards in European and American cities. In the early 1990s Dimitrijevic started a new cycle of portrait-installations, this time not using unknown people but artists, musicians and scientists better known for their achievements than for their names.

Braco Dimitrijevic. Catalogo della mostra (Saint-Etienne, 15 maggio-16 agosto 2009). Ediz. inglese e francese

Hessisches Landesmuseum (Darmstadt, Germany)

Klaus-D. Pohl

Nena Dimitrijević

Dimitrivic - in de jaren 70 bekend geworden met gigantische portretfoto's in de openbare ruimte - combineert meesterwerken uit museumcollecties met alledaagse gebruiksvoorwerpen en (soms levende) natuurproducten.

Braco Dimitrijević

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