The second exhibition of the exhibition “100 out of 1000 works from the collection of the Sićevo Art Colony” will be available to the public from Thursday, September 19, at 10 a.m., at the Officers’ House in Niš. The exhibition is of an international nature and consists of works created in the Colony between 1994 and 2024.
The Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts Niš is organizing the exhibition “100 out of 1000 works from the collection of the Sićevo Art Colony” to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the regular holding of the Colony. The exhibition is designed to follow the chronological sequence of the Colony’s existence, illustrating its basic characteristics (Yugoslav and international character, participation of artists of different vocations and stylistic orientations). Due to its large scale, the exhibition is being realized through two exhibitions. The first exhibition (from 29. 8 to 13. 9.) was of a Yugoslav character and included works created during the first three decades of the Colony. The second exhibition is of an international character, since since the beginning of the 1990s, artists from abroad have regularly participated in the work of the Colony. The exhibition is based on works by authors from Serbia and other countries (Japan, Canada, Sweden, Bulgaria…), which were created in the period from 1994 to 2024. The exhibition is also multimedia in nature, because in addition to works of traditional media (paintings, graphics, drawings), objects, video works and video installations are represented, since in the last couple of decades, artists who express themselves through the so-called new media have also been participants of the Colony.
The landscapes of the unique Sićevačka Gorge are a dominant inspiration and a constant artistic challenge for numerous authors. Each of them moved along the selected paths of their own visual poetics in the artistic re-creation of their experience of the gorge, using as an initial impulse a general impression, a panoramic view or just a fragment from nature (Kosta Bradić, Milena Jevtić Nićeva Kostić, Rada Selaković, Zoran Vuković, Miroslav Anđelković, Elizabeth Matje, Kenji Nagai, Branko Nikolov, Sonja Vukašinović, Rajko Popivoda, Jelena Šalinić, Due Martin, Katarina Đorđević, Ivana Stanković, Miroslav Lazović, Slavica Curk, Ljiljana Šunjevarić, the DimTim group…). A number of artists defined their impressions of their stay in the Colony through the symbols of the historical heritage of this region (Čedomir Vasić, Branimir Karanović, Zoran Grebenarović, Jelena Trajković, Vesna Knežević), while others, through works created in Sićevo, pointed to the antagonisms of current geopolitics, social reality, health situations or behavioral psychology (Zlatko Glamočak, Nina Kovačeva and Stefan Valentin, Zoran Veljković, Ivana Ivković, Milica Ruzić, Jovan Spasić, Ivan Milenković).
The author of the exhibition is Milica Todorović, museum advisor.
The exhibition will run until October 10.
Over the sixty years of regular maintenance of the Sićevo Art Colony, an impressive fund of artistic works has been formed, which currently has exactly 1,000 inventory units, of which 88 are kept in the National Museum and 912 in the fund of the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts. The most numerous in the collection of the Sićevo Art Colony are paintings (644), followed by graphics, drawings and works on paper (291), sculptures (33), photographs and works of new media (22).