The second display of the exhibition “100 of 1000 works from the fund of the Sićevo Art Colony” will be available to the public from Thursday, September 19, from 10 a.m., in the Officers’ Home in Nis. The exhibition has an international character and consists of works created in the Colony in the period from 1994 to 2024.
The exhibition “100 out of 1000 works from the fund of the Sićevo Art Colony” is organized by the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Art in Nis on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the regular maintenance of the Colony. The exhibition is designed to follow the chronological order of the duration of the Colony, illustrating its basic characteristics (Yugoslavian and international character, participation of artists of various vocations and stylistic orientations). Due to its large scale, the exhibition is realized through two settings. The first exhibition (from August 29 to September 13) 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, because since the beginning of the nineties of the 20th century, artists from abroad have regularly participated in the work of the Colony. The exhibition is based on the works of authors from Serbia and other countries (Japan, Canada, Sweden, Bulgaria…), which were created in the period from 1994 to 2024. The exhibition has a multimedia character at the same time, because in addition to works of traditional media (paintings, graphics, drawings) objects, video works and video installations are represented, since the last couple of decades have been participants of the Colony and artists who express themselves through so-called new media.
The landscapes of the unique Sićevka Gorge are a dominant inspiration and a constant artistic challenge for numerous authors. Each of them moved along the selected paths of their own artistic poetics in the artistic 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 Ničeva Kostić, Rada Selaković, Zoran Vuković, Miroslav Anđelković, Elizabet Matje, Kendži Nagai, Branko Nikolov, Sonja Vukašinović, Rajko Popivoda, Jelena Šalinić, Due Martin, Katarina Đorđević, Ivana Stanković, Miroslav Lazović, Slavica Curk, Ljiljana Šunjevarić, group DimTim…). 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 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 Ružić, Jovan Spasić, Ivan Milenković).
The author of the exhibition is Milica Todorović, museum advisor.
The exhibition will last until October 10.
For sixty years of regular maintenance of the Sićevo Art Colony, an impressive fund of artistic works was formed, which currently has exactly 1000 inventory items, of which 88 are kept in the National Museum and 912 in the collection of the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Art. In the collection of the Sicevac Colony, the most numerous are paintings (644), followed by graphics, drawings and works on paper (291), sculptures (33), photographs and works of new media (22).