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Dado (Miodrag Djuric, 1933–2010)Miodrag Djuric, says Dado, is one of the most powerful visionaries of 20th century figurative art. Originally from Montenegro and arrived in Paris in 1956, he was immediately spotted by Jean Dubuffet, who saw in him a singular genius. Located in his workshop in Heruval, Dado built a monumental work, exploring the limits of anatomy, metamorphosis and decomposition. Remote from the ephemeral currents, he developed a personal mythology where humans, animals and minerals merge. Its brush, of surgical precision, gives life to hybrid creatures and tormented organic landscapes, often bathed in a palette of pastel tones — blue, powdery roses, ash grey — which contrasts violently with the brutality of the subjects represented. Dado's work is a meditation on the fragility of the flesh and the persistence of memory. Influenced by the traumas of war and a fascination for natural history, it breaks down forms to better reveal its essence. In him, fragmentation is not a destruction, but a poetic reorganization of chaos, where every detail pulls with life and movement. A total artist, his talent was expressed with the same intensity in painting, drawing, engraving and sculpture. His mastery of the trait, inherited from the great masters of the Renaissance, allows him to create spaces of a dizzying depth, where the emptiness plays a role as crucial as matter.Today, Dado's work occupies a place of choice in the collections inter