Đorđe Đorđević “Integrity”
September 19 – October 14, 2024
After a long time, the artist Đorđe Đorđević will present himself to the public in Niš with an exhibition of paintings, entitled “Integrity”. The exhibition consists of works from his current artistic production, including a number of this year’s paintings. The exhibition will open on Thursday, September 19 at 7 p.m. in the Pavilion in Tvrđava.
Starting from the mid-1980s, Đorđe Đorđević’s abstract painting opus has developed consistently, recording subtle shifts in terms of reducing the palette and repertoire of graphic symbols. Emphasizing the mental and emotional-expressive qualities of Đorđević’s creative personality, art historian Jovan Despotović notes his ability to disregard rules: “It allows him to maintain the pictorial scene in a consistent state in a justified compositional order, despite the risky process of crossing mutually exclusive principles of geometricism and gesturality in the same pictorial field…”.
With his recent painting, Đorđević offers resistance to the deafening hustle and bustle of everyday life. The basic element and unit of these compositions is the quadrangle, which embodies stability and harmony, but also neutrality and subordination to a larger whole. The gesturally treated surfaces, in comparison with the smaller monochrome fields, reflect the artistic principle of the unity of elements and the dominant, and this is also the thesis that the author examines on a semantic level. Therefore, transferred to the field of social relations, it is the principle of collective interests, which implies the discreet correction of the individual desires of the participants, the conscious surrender of part of personal dignity for the sake of the integrity of the community. In his autopoetic text, Đorđe Đorđević emphasizes that catholicity is an acute social need of the time in which we live.
Đorđe Đorđević was born in 1949 in Belgrade. He graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, Italy, in 1972. From 1974 to 1976, he designed textiles for the leather and textile factory “Viteks” in Visoko, near Sarajevo. He held twenty-five solo exhibitions in Serbia, Italy, Croatia, France, Montenegro and Austria and took part in a large number of collective exhibitions. His works are represented in several public and private art collections. He has been a member of ULUS since 1981, and in 1982 he received the status of an independent artist. He lives and works in Belgrade.