Zeljko Djurovic was born in 1956 in Danilovgrad. He finished Studies of painting, as well as post-graduate studies at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade. He is the member of the ULUS and Ex-Libris Society Belgrade and the international group of artists LIBELLULE, France. He works as an associate professor, teaching drawing and painting at FILUM in Kragujevac. He had 42 solo exhibitions at home and abroad. He exhibited at the International Center for fantastic art, castle Gruyeres (his works are in the permanent exhibition of the Museum), Salon Comparaison, Grand Palais in Paris, the Museum of Fantastic Art in Vienna, participated in the first international exhibition Fantastic Art Du Fantastique au Visionnaire, Venice, Italy. He is represented in about 32 books of art (Metamorphosis, Dreamscapes II, Metaphysical art, IMAGINAIRE I, I Dreamscapes, Serbian art of twentieth century). He is the winner of Foundation 'M.C. Echer 'ex libris' award and Foundation Momo Kapor award for painting. His works are in private and public collections in the country and in the world.
……….With the first sight of Đurović’s pantheistic radiant paintings, we are faced with unusual colour fluorescence, with eruptions of intensive, Bengal-like strong protuberances which literary daze all our senses. And in that first confronting with the colourful world of this artist, we sense that his obsessive world is suggestive, powerful, and warm. At this very moment we really discover the artist’s affinity towards hidden, fantastic, wonderful, and then obsessive preoccupation with the mysterious volume of a woman’s body. Therefore this art of nocturnal, shaded green-blue palette is forcing us with our pastoral charms to pleasant journeys on deep lakes of warm, nutritious waters in which coral world is expanding, the existence of which we have forgotten. And, metaphysically observed, a man is a Creature of a Path. And yet, every artist is always the first to discover his own Arcadia for himself. There is no doubt; the myth of Arcadia has originated out of despair, out of that dark, gloomy mood of the soul sometimes called turba. And Arcadia is out there, somewhere where no soul will ever endanger its existence under the sky. It is the last homeostatic sanctuary where it is possible to find peace.
Dragan Jovanovic Danilov
Website address www.zeljkodjurovic.com
e-mail zeljko@zeljkodjurovic.com
WALK THROUGH THE PARADISE, 200x300 cm, oil on canvas, 2016
ON EDEN, GARDENS, BIRDS AND CANINES, 120 x 150cm, oil on canvas, 2013
PEARLS, r 95 cm, oil on canvas
