Radovan Lale Djuric

Born; May 7, 1945 Nis, Yugoslavia

Studied: College of Architecture, Nis 1960-1964
Studied fine art and decorative painting
In Belgrade, Venice, Paris and Amsterdam

The appeal of Lale Djuric’s handsome screens, whether installed in a home or a commercial environment, is both sculptural and pictorial. Djuric first worked as a stage designer for the National Theater in Belgrade. Moving to Paris, he executed murals for the design firm Dalmas. In the 1970s he established his own gallery, “Lale Space,” on East 72nd Street in Manhattan. There he displayed his first folding panels, which only incidentally recall Oriental panels. Their smooth surfaces and provocative colors, distributed in successive perpendicular “zones,” are simultaneously decorative and suggestive, theatrical and tranquil. According to Dr. Vladimir Petric of Harvard University their architectural character: “ Does not prevent the viewer from ‘reading’ Lale’s paintings [screens] as vast landscapes suggestive of clouds, lakes, mountains, trees, soil, water, and fire, steel and rust.”

 

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