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| Drago Dosen |
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Drago Dosen, was born in former Yugoslavia (Bosnia) in 1943.
He dedicated himself to the art at his early age in which he showed a great talent. Upon the graduation from the Art High School in Sarajevo, he continued his studies in Belgrade where he graduated from the Academy of the Aplied Arts in 1970.
Drago Dosen concepts link him to the early 1970s generation
of Belgrade painters who turned toward a fundamental experiencing of nature, reinstating the subject theme in their paintings.
In 1975, Drago started exhibiting his work, which resulted in the great interest
throughout Yugoslavia and Europe. It didn’t take long before his paintings
enjoyed great critiques and reviews from his fellow artist and the general public.
This made him one of the most recognizable artists on the home soil at the time.
Throughout 20 years of exhibiting in a number of galleries in many countries,
Drago managed to sell well over 400 paintings that went to private and public collections.
In 1995 Drago moved to New Zealand where he continued to exhibit his work,
looking for new challenges and aspirations. His recent work was inspired
by the new surroundings which brings different flavour to his extensive portfolio.
He is based in Auckland where he currently lives and works.
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| About the Artist |
Dosen's painting is conceived in the subconscious of perception,
more in the sphere of obscure recollections than in clearly-defined forms of reality. He develops the perception rather than accepting it as it is, and so the
form on his painting seems to be a late coming recognition of something once known but forgotten, something once loved but lost. His scenes take on the allure of a fanciful fabric of forms which reveals the intimate meaning of nature.
Remaining faithful to the shape of the subject, Dosen defines it through the
color value of form, thus achieving a calm but fluid and poetically-expressed atmosphere, an ambient of surrealistic space in which light lavishly showers
the subject. Then the temporal element insinuates itself into the scope of the
artist's imagination, flowing backwards from the present to the past in an introverted, nostalgic quest for the former life of the painting. More than being emotional
or visual, this is truly a return to the spirit, to the spiritual; it is a search for the
long-lost experiencing of the "painting", whose illusion now becomes reality. Remembrance or, more precisely, preconsciousness is transformed into a painting, the the object of our observation, but this again has a twofold approach, pure image and symbol. Symbolism, however, is the backdrop of Dosen's paintings.
The artist's imagination turns the perceivable into the poetic haze of the painting, into the form and content of a new reality in artistic awareness.
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Free Forms 6
1985 Color inks and pen 70x62 |
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Warrior 3
2006 Liquid acrylic on paper 52x65 |
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Unframed |
Journey Of The Soul 1 (Balkan)
2000 Watercolor 58x48cm |
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Unframed |
Warrior 1
2000 Color inks and pen 76x66 |
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Drawing on paper unframed |
Tsunami 2004
2004 Acrylic on canvas 122x92 cm |
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Visitors 1
2008 Acrylic 70x60cm |
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Remembering
2008 Acrylic 80x100 cm |
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Remembering, acrylic |
Exodus
2008 Acrylic 100x122 |
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Exodus |
Roadrunner
2006 Digital image |
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Woman
2008 Acrylic 120x100 cm |
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The Sign
Combined Technique |
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Melancholy
Mixed |
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| Education and biography |
EDUCATION:
High School Of Art - Sarajevo (graduated in 1964)
Academy Of Applied Arts - Belgrade (graduated in 1970)
GROUP EXHIBITION::
ULUS (1975-1994) - Belgrade, Serbia
Oktobarski Salon (1975,1978) - Belgrade, Serbia
International Drawing Exhibition - Rijeka, Croatia
(Other various group exhibitions in former Yugoslavia)
Briarhouse (1996) - Hamilton, New Zealand
Mairangi Art Centre (2003,2004) - Auckland, New Zealand
SOKI Illustration (2004) - Korea
Art For Nature (2005) - Museum Leeuwenbergh, Utrecht, Netherlands
SOLO EXHIBITION:
- Belgrade, Serbia 1977,1978
- Tokyo, Japan 1994 |
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