Mira Maodus

Mira Maodus, an abstract painter, is a Serbian artist of Russian origin who lives and works between Paris, Belgrade and Tokyo.

Mira Maodus

Biography

Mira Maodus was born in 1942 in an Italian military camp in Medak (in the Balkans), where her mother had fled. Her mother, Sofija Tesla, was the niece of the inventor Nikola Tesla.

Educated in Belgrade, she then left and went out into the world to develop her artistic talents, which, unfortunately, her mother did not support. Maodus studied painting at the School of Applied Arts in Frankfurt (1965-1968), the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice (1969-1972), and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure in Paris (1972-1975). She received a master’s degree from the University of Milan in 1978 for her thesis on the Bologna School in the seventeenth century – Guido Reni, Annibale Carracci and Guercino.

During her travels and studies, she was drawn toward German Expressionism, the Italian Renaissance masters, the Ecole of Paris (specially Chaim Soutine and Amedeo Modigliani), the Russian Avant-garde and the CoBrA movement. She lived in Japan for seven years, where she studied calligraphy as an art form.

After an early figurative period in Paris inspired by Matisse fauvisme, Maodus came into her full presence as a contemporary artist. Surrendering to the automation of rhythmic strokes, she began creating unique, abstract compositions out of letters, words, signs and numbers, blending them into colourful images with multiple meanings.

Since 1973, she has participated in solo and collective exhibitions in France, Serbia, Japan, Italy, Great Britain. Switzerland, and the United States. She is a member of ULUS (The Association of Visual Artists of Serbia)and of La Maison des Artistes in France. Her works are exhibited at National Museum in Belgrade and at the Miyagi Museum of Art in Sendai, Japan.

Since 1977, Maodus has lived in Chaim Soutine’s atelier at the Cité Falguière in Montparnasse (Paris), a mythic place of modern art where Amedeo Modigliani sculpted “La Cariatide” (now in The Museum of Modern Art in New York City).

Museums permanent collections

National Museum, Belgrade (Serbe) “The massacre of Serbs” 1987


The Miyagi Museum of art , Sendai (Japan) “Metro, passengers” Paris 1986

Group exibtions

• 1972 Galerie Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice


• 1973 Atelier Gilly Etienne Martin de l’Ecole des Beaux Arts, Maison de la culture Bourges, Mairie des Clermont-Ferrand


• 1977 Festa des’Amicizia, Brescia, Italy (gold medal)


• 1977 Premio Morazzone, Italy (gold medal)


• 1980 Jeune Peinture Jeune Expression, Paris


• 1980 Salon d’Automne, Paris


• 1981 Première Convergence Jeune Expression, Paris


• 1984 – 2005 exposition with the group SHA-GI-TZU à UENO Museum, Tokyo
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1984 Union des femmes peintres et sculpteurs, Musée de Luxembourg, Paris
• 1996 à présent Salon de Mai, Paris
• 2010, Salon 150eme anniversaire Mairie du 15eme, Paris

Solo exibitions

• 1973 Galerie Mondadori, Verona, Italy
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1977 Galerie Barbaroux, Milano, Italy
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1977 Galerie ASCA, Brescia, Italy
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1980 Centre CHAILLOT-Galleria, Paris
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1982-1987 Galerie Ghendai, Tokyo
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1987 Galerie JC Riedel, Paris

1988 Japon Press Gallery, Tokyo


• 1992 Galerie JC Riedel, Paris
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1993 Galerie Espace Takarashi, Tokyo
• 1997 Musée National, Belgrade


• 1998 Galerie ULUS, Belgrade


• 2000 Japon Art Forum, Kyoto


• 2001 Galerie Etoile, Tokyo
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2008 Musée National, Arad, Roumanie
• 2010 Bibliothèque National Pancevo
• 2010 Galerie Etoile Tokyo
• De 2010 à 2016
• Galeries Besseiche Paris
• Galeries Besseiche Dinard
• Galeries Besseiche Géneve (Switzerland)
• Galeries Besseiche Beijing (Chine)
• Dal 2007 al 2016 carte de voeux per Unesco
• 2010 Affiche 150eme anniversaire du Mairie du 15eme
• 2017 Exposition “A Chromatic Explosion” Belgrade (Serbie)

External links

http://newsarttoday.tv/expo/mira-maodus-galerie-daniel-besseiche/ 2015 exposition personnelGalerie Besseiche

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xsp4qCfHhM 2017 interview TV KCN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ5CU__rWdA 2017 Exposition in Belgrade

References

• Alessandro De Stefani: "Modigliani alla Cité Falguière: la prima fase della scultura nel suo contesto immediato" Article in Studiolo, revue d'Histoire de l'Art de l'Acadèmie de France à Rome Villa Médecis ( No.12, 2015, p. 5).
• « À l'ombre de Pasteur, la cité Falguière » article de Jacques Mauve et Michel Debonne, Bulletin de la Société d'histoire et d'archéologie du XVearrondissement de Paris, no 8, www.paris15histoire.com.

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