Saying that Braco Dimitrijević is an untraditional artist would be an understatement.
His large-scale exhibition at the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art will expose the public to the work of an artist who is always contending with chance, whose consistent conceptual oeuvre is based on a strong critical attitude, installations and photo-documentation.
His unconventional pieces started early on with his “accidental work” created in 1968 when a car drove over some sculptor’s plaster creating a cloud of smoke. That was when he proclaimed “The Louvre is my studio, the street is my museum.” Another of his ideas called, “casual passers-by” involves random people that Dimitrijević encounters on the street. This started in 1971 when he hung up three giant black-and-white portrait photographs in the main square of Zagreb. On a space previously covered with the portraits of party leaders, there appeared the gigantic portraits of three passers-by, thereby completely confusing the people of Zagreb. The series later became Dimitrijević’s trademark and a democratic celebration of the ordinary person, which he has repeated throughout the world.
In connection with his exhibition at the Ludwig Museum, you can currently see an example of casual passers-by on the façade of the National Gallery in Budapest.
Dates: Through September 14
Place: Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Tel.: +36.1.555.3444
www.ludwigmuseum.hu
Place: Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Tel.: +36.1.555.3444
www.ludwigmuseum.hu
