Radivoje Djurovic - Paintings (1950 - 2008)

RADIVOJE ĐUROVIĆ
Belgrade, October 15, 1950 – October 28, 2008.

Academy / Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Department of Painting, completed in 1974, and postgraduate studies in 1978, in the class of Professor Stojan Ćelić. He devoted his whole life to art, living and working as an independent artist in Belgrade, New York (late eighties), London (from 2001 to 2005).

He did not exhibit much and often independently. From 1976, when he opened his first solo exhibition (paintings and drawings) in the Gallery of the Kolarč National University, until 2005, when he had his last solo exhibition (paintings) in the ULUS Gallery, he had five more: 1979 in the Gallery Grafički kolektiv (drawings) ; 1981 in Nikšić (paintings and drawings); 1986 in the KNU Gallery (pictures); 1993 in the Graphic Collective Gallery (collages); 1999 in the ULUS Gallery (pictures) together with Zoran Grebenarović and Mladen Mićunović).
Since 1973, he has participated in a large number of collective exhibitions, in Yugoslavia and Serbia, in France, the Netherlands and Great Britain, and he has also received several important awards: he received the award of the October Salon for painting in 1989, and in 1986 the award of the SIZ of Culture of Belgrade for the best . independent exhibition of paintings at Kolarčevo National University.

He painted, drew, made collages, and he was no stranger to design, art equipment for magazines and books. He used oil, acrylic, mixed technique, colored pencils.

At the end of the 1970s, he worked on the creation of mosaics in the Serbian National Theater in Novi Sad and in the Television building in Košutnjak.

He was a member of ULUS since 1975.