Our Mother the Mountain 2018. 13 pencil drawings From one drawing to another, from one series to the other, Duje Medić is an increasingly intriguing and delightful artist. Many contemporary drawers succeed in fixating our gaze on their works, but few are those from whose graphite dust one can read poetry and prose, and allRead more

Parisian Studies 2016 – 2019 28 pencil drawings – art studies of museum pieces from Louvre and Quai Branly in Paris. Parisian Studies of Duje Medić   “Man is a creature in a mask”, says Oto Bihalji Merin in his great monograph Masks of the World published in 1970. It contains an overview of numerousRead more

The Calling of Father Marin Držić 2018 16 pencil drawings and an installation made from scrap of 292 pencils (Koh-i-Noor, 6B), previously used to create these drawings. It is difficult for researchers, and almost impossible for some, to face the fact that they will never see a document that, according to their discretion and withRead more

Studio 2015 The drawings were first displayed as part of the exhibition “Homage to a pencil: Josip Vaništa, Davor Vrankić and Duje Medić”, held in 2015 in the Josip Račić Studio of the Modern Gallery in Zagreb and hosted at the Gallery of Fine Arts in Osijek in the same year, with the addition ofRead more

Badlands 2013 13 pencil drawings and an installation made from scrap of 618 pencils (TOZ, 6B), previously used to create these drawings. In The Prince, Machiavelli wrote that “because fortune is a woman, […] it is necessary to beat and coerce her“ 1, or as repeated elliptically by Držić: “Fortune is not as woman shownRead more

The Sun 2011 In the foot note for the poem The Lion of Chaeronea, published in his 1898 collection of poems, Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević clarifies the title of the poem (The name comes from a fourth century BC monument which was rediscovered and reassembled at the time) and says: “Oh, fortunate Hellas, with memories asRead more