The retrospective exhibition “In the Head and Fire” by Dragoljub Adžić will open on Tuesday, September 23, at 7 p.m. in the Montenegrin Gallery of Arts “Miodrag Dado Đurić” in Cetinje, organized by the National Museum of Montenegro. The exhibition is both a tribute to one of the most significant artists of the Yugoslav cultural space in the field of ceramic sculpture, and an opportunity to thoroughly reconsider the possibilities of ceramics as a medium that has remained almost invisible in contemporary art.

Throughout his long creative career, Adžić built an exceptionally consistent, aesthetically and conceptually rounded oeuvre in ceramic sculpture – a medium which, despite its millennial tradition, was often relegated to the margins within modernist and postmodern frameworks, reduced to decorative or craft function. Since the early 1970s, he regarded ceramics as an equal visual language, a medium with its own linguistic laws, distinctive poetics, and unique form of spiritual potential. Respecting the natural properties of clay – its softness, sensitivity to moisture, and ability to be transformed through fire – Adžić developed, over decades of work, an expressive discipline of rare precision.

Dragoljub Adžić Adžo was born in 1941 in Cetinje. He graduated from the Secondary School of Arts in Novi Sad, completed undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade, as well as a two-year specialization in sculptural ceramics in Paris. For many years, he worked as a scenographer on complex projects at RTV Novi Sad. He exhibited throughout the former Yugoslavia and abroad. Until the end of his life, he created in his studio at the Petrovaradin Fortress. He received numerous national, regional, and international awards and recognitions, including the October Award of the City of Novi Sad for outstanding achievements in fine arts. He passed away in 2024 in Novi Sad.

The curator of the exhibition is Ljiljana Karadžić. The exhibition will remain open until November 23.