АКТУЕЛНО
European Museum Night
We would like to inform you that on Saturday, May 18th this year, the European Museum Night will be held.
The European Museum Night is a kind of cultural spectacle, a unique event that involves the extension of the work of museum and gallery spaces until midnight, without charging admission. The goal of the event is to develop the audience, promote interest in museum heritage and contemporary creativity, and improve cooperation with the audience. The event was first held in our country in 2004.
As every year, the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts Niš participates in this event, but this year the exhibition spaces will be open until 10 pm.
The audience will be able to see the following exhibitions during the Museum Night:
In the Officers' House - Retrospective exhibition of Dragan Momčilović, an artist from Niš. The exhibition was organized to mark 50 years of the author's artistic creativity and consists of a selection of paintings and drawings from the artist's entire oeuvre.
In the Pavilion in the Fortress – an exhibition by Bojan Otašević, a full professor at the Faculty of Philology and Arts in Kragujevac. The exhibition consists of large-format graphics from the Waiting Room cycle, created over the last ten years and realized in the allography technique.
In Salon 77 – an exhibition Microcosm by Teodora Vojinović, a younger generation artist from Čačak. The exhibition consists of painted sculptures from the Moons cycle and spatial installations Plants and Rain.
At the same time, May 18 was declared International Museum Day by ICOM (International Council of Museums). This event was established with the intention of contributing to the presentation and promotion of museums by emphasizing their role, function and importance.
Teodora Vojinović "Microcosm"
Teodora Vojinović
Microcosm
Sculptures and Installations
Salon 77, May 14 – June 2, 2024
Microcosm - a world in miniature, a small part of the world that can be viewed to some extent as a separate world, and from somewhere as a reduced image of the big world or macrocosm, the world at large. Teodora Vojinović's sculptural vocabulary is characterized by reduction, on the one hand, the minimization of means and relationships, and on the other hand, monumental architecture in a gallery format. Also, her micronarrative is so unobtrusive that it openly encourages individual experience through her works. She expresses herself subtly and subtly encourages contemplation and reflection on the world. The exhibition "Microcosmos" in Salon 77 consists of the cycle sculpture "Moons" and the installation "Flowers", then the installations "Reflections" and "Rain". Taken together, these works formally compare the forms of the natural and artificial environment, and their juxtaposition aims to highlight the exceptionality of phenomena from the primary context and its revalorization.
Teodora VOJINOVIĆ (Čačak, 1993) completed her master's degree in applied sculpture at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade (2018). She is the winner of the "Radeta Stanković" Award for the best sculptural achievement of students of the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade and the ULUPUDS Award. She has realized four solo exhibitions and participated in 50 group exhibitions.
Bojan Otasevic
On Thursday, May 9, the Pavilion in the Fortress opened a solo exhibition by Dr. Bojan Otašević, a full professor at the Faculty of Philology and Arts in Kragujevac. The exhibition consists of large-format prints from the "Waiting Room" cycle, created in the last ten years and realized in the technique of algraphy with multiple colored passages.
Bojan Otašević has been developing an authentic opus for more than twenty years, which is compact in its uniqueness and consistency. From the very beginning, he opted for the world of figuration, that is, for a traditional genre repertoire that is dominantly based on portraits and human figures. However, Otašević uses the motifs that have been the basis of visual expression since time immemorial as a means of speaking about the current social moment. His lonely figures with lowered shoulders and averted gaze, most often nudes, are a symbiosis of the state of alienation and confusion of a modern man caught in the labyrinth of existing events, which are such that they inevitably cause existential and emotional anxiety over his own fate. The artist presents the figures in close-up, often in a sitting position, without movement, but behind this physical staticity lies an eruptive inner energy, a whirlwind of thoughts and feelings, which Otašević achieves through a skillful combination of visual elements based on the force of gestures, the relationship between light and dark, and a contrasting and luxurious color spectrum. Calling his latest cycle of prints "The Waiting Room" from nameless individual portraits and figures, Otašević creates a kind of group portrait of people from the social margins who are waiting for better times and are potential carriers of necessary changes.
Bojan Otašević was born in Kragujevac in 1973. He graduated, received his master's and doctoral degrees from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. He has organized fifty solo exhibitions in many cities in Serbia and in Canada, Lithuania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. He has won 23 awards, including significant national awards for graphics: the Golden Needle of ULUS (2002), the Small Seal (2015) and the Great Seal of the Graphic Collective (2018), as well as awards at international events: the Bronze Needle at the 12th International Biennial "Suva igla" in Užice, the Grand Diploma at the 12th International Portrait Biennial in Tuzla and the Special Recognition for Contribution to Graphics in the World at the Triennial of Graphics in Bitola.
The exhibition will run until May 26
https://youtu.be/SI6fxkRunJ4?si=-F7f23aJOpgsCya7
RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION - DRAGANA MOMCILOVIĆA
RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION
DRAGAN MOMCILOVIĆ
The Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts Niš, on April 25, 2024, is organizing a retrospective exhibition of paintings and drawings by Dragan Momčilović, a native of Niš. With this exhibition of selected works in the field of fine arts, the artist marks 50 years of his artistic work. The exhibition will be officially opened by Goran Stanković, a Serbian writer of poetry, prose, and essays. In addition to the above, he is engaged in editorial work, as a long-time editor in Gradina, then director of the Niš Cultural Center. Since 2002, he has been the editor-in-chief in the same institution. Winner of many awards in the field of literature. Goran Stanković is, first of all, a long-time friend and collaborator of Dragan Momčilović. At the opening, we will have the opportunity to enjoy the performance of several musical numbers by the string quartet from the Leskovac Symphony Orchestra.
Momčilović was born in 1952 in Crna Trava, from where his family moved to Ćičevac, where he finished elementary school, and then enrolled in the five-year Art School "Đorđe Krstić" in Niš. On the recommendation of Professor Dragan Kostić, after graduating from art school, he began working at the then young and promising publishing house "Gradina", where he established a symbolic and symbolic recognition, and provided visual illustrations for over 1,000 titles. In the late 1970s, he enrolled in the Pedagogical Academy "Kliment Ohridski", and became a member of ULUPUDS and ULUS. Although he worked on the book equipment, as a technical editor, it was then that the painterly being developed in him, inspired by poetry, literary works, primarily the poems of Branko Miljković. Enraptured by lyricism and spirituality, he creates his own visual language, building it very thoroughly and systematically. His paintings become epitaphs dedicated to deceased writers or dialogues with contemporaries of the painting profession. Series of diverse works followed each other from year to year in countless combinations of paintings, drawings, objects. Entire cycles of thoroughly elaborated works of art were created: Epitaph, Obzorja, Blue Line of Life, Seven Dead Poets, About Branko Miljković, Dialogue with Todor (Stevanović), through Image and Object... In addition to the above, Momčilović has been continuously exploring nature and everything that surrounds him for decades, but above all through his own experience and memory. Carried away by personal philosophical thinking, imaginary landscapes filled with symbols, abstract pasty surfaces, an endless embodiment of the horizon, from which the sun rises and sets as a symbol of his life and spirit, were created.
His palette is recognizable, special, individual, as is his way of painting and combining abstract, symbolic and geometric expression through colored drawing. Momčilović's versatility in fine and applied art over the past five decades will remain permanently recorded, through a large number of awards and recognitions from many fairs and solo and collective exhibitions of members of ULUS and ULUPUDS. We must especially highlight his personal engagement in creating the culture of the city, and his great merit in forming the Art Colony "Classic" of the Niš Tobacco Factory (Philip Morris), where he worked from 1993 to 2005. Upon retirement, he devoted himself entirely to painting and working in the studio with the same intensity, creating every day surrounded by friends and family. With this retrospective exhibition, he marks 50 years of his artistic work, with works carefully selected from his rich opus of fine art. Despite the changes he went through, he remained consistent with his chosen creative orientation and artistic expression, which is clear and very recognizable. Considering all the phases of his opus, starting from the figurative to the last abstract, he remained consistent with the informel and the associative illusion of the object form with noticeable traces of artistic abstraction. The maturity and experience gained through daily work and engagement are now proven here in front of us with his works. Fragmentation and layering as well as boundless expressive energy fit with the artist's temperament, which is of the same intensity as at the beginning of his creative journey. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog and an almanac with the painter's artistic manifesto. Dragan Momčilović still wants to say a lot and permanently record it on the canvas, and we thank him for this from the bottom of our hearts and wish him to continue creating for as long as possible.
The exhibition will run until May 25, 2024.
GRAPHICS AND DRAWING
EXHIBITION "GRAPHICS AND DRAWING" BY STUDENTS OF THE FACULTY OF FINE ARTS IN BELGRADE, THE ACADEMY OF ARTS IN NOVI SAD AND THE FACULTY OF ARTS IN NIŠ
NIŠ, PAVILION IN TVRĐAVI, April 18 - May 5, 2024
Continued cooperation between three higher education institutions and teachers in the subject of Graphics is once again marked this year by the traditional student exhibition "Graphics and Drawing". This year's exhibition points to special approaches to graphics and drawing, to the students' attitude towards the graphic medium, and reveals their thoughts and different ways of realizing graphic sheets and drawings.
In an era of global connectivity, transparency and real-time accessibility, exhibitions that can be seen and “felt” in the exhibition space, those that systematically present student activities, are a valuable source of information. Before us is a selection of works that presents the real state of current student artistic production. It points to the enthusiasm of young creators, their dynamism, wealth of ideas and the essential conditioning of graphics and drawings in the works presented.
Milan Kujundzic
Milan Kujundžić
objects, installations and video
Salon 77, April 11 – May 1, 2024
Expressing himself in various media (installation, object, video, drawing and sound), Milan Kujundžić deals with the relationship between the individual and the collective, that is, with questioning the position of the individual within the narrower and wider, global system. He is interested in the question of the suitability of man for inhabiting a complex social structure, with a large number of predefined rules of life and action. Searching for the border points when the statement acquires a tone of protest and calls for resistance to the order, Kujundžić, in his recent works, reflects on the need for the liberalization of social dogmas and the reexamination of newly emerging imperatives. The artist contributes various naked observations from global reality to the "struggle to save humanity". Conducted in the spirit of rebellious art of the last century, and anticipating current phenomena of reality, the works of this exhibition represent Kujundžić's contribution to public consciousness.
Milan Kujundžić was born in 1997 in Foča, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He completed his basic studies in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Trebinje in 2019. He is the winner of the painting award at the same academy and was awarded a special mention at the International Student Biennial in Osijek in 2021. He completed his master's studies at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, module New Visual Media. He has exhibited at several collective exhibitions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia. He has had solo exhibitions in Foča, Trebinje, Sarajevo, Novi Sad, Belgrade and Užice. He has participated in numerous colonies, festivals and art workshops in the region and abroad, some of the most important being the film workshop "ACTive" in Skopje and Ulcinj and the film workshop "Fighting stigma through film" in London. He is a finalist for the "Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos" award for young visual artists in Serbia in 2022.
He participated in guiding the exhibition "EUROVISION. CROSSING STORIES AND SPACE" at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina. He is a member of the Union of Fine Artists' Associations of Vojvodina.
The exhibition of objects, installations and video works by Milan Kujundžić can be visited by the public until May 12 at Salon 77.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hThM22fSpbw
Изложба Милан Станојев: у протоку времена
Изложба Милан Станојев: у протоку времена,
У уторак 26.марта у 19 сати у Павиљону у Тврђави отворена је изложба слика и графика новосадског уметника Милана Станојева под називом Милан Станојев: у протоку времена.
Ове године навршава се шест деценија професионалног стваралаштва аутора, једног од најзаслужнијих за мапирање Новог Сада као престижног графичког центра у Југославији, професора Академије уметности, учесника многобројних изложби у земљи и иностранству, члана УЛУС-а и Графичког колектива, добитника бројних награда и признања, међу којима се истиче Велики печат Графичког колектива, додељен у мају 1976.године за графику Крушке на столу, израђеној у техници акватинте.
Према речима ауторке изложбе Јасне Кујунџић Јованов, историчарке уметности и ликовне критичарке, суд о стваралаштву Милана Станојева, који и даље свакодневно ствара, увек носи ризик пропуштеног, те је тешко сагледати обимно дело, које броји на хиљаде радова и чији визуелни кодови теку паралелно, препличу се, наговештавају један другог. Превасходни утисак о симболичко-метафоричким оквирима, током појединих периода, мења свој појавни облик: Милан Станојев континуирано води дијалог са самим собом, а комуникација повремено тече и у директној форми, приказујући слику тренутка, а далеко чешће у виду својеврсног визуелног знака којим изражава своја размишљања.
Изложба у Павиљону у Тврђави је друго представљање Милана Станојева у Нишу, након самосталне изложбе графика приређене у Салону 77 1983.године и прилика је да се шира и стручна јавност југоисточне Србије Као аутор графике, показао је различита интересовања: у раном периоду његова пажња је усмерена на теме асоцијативно-апстрактног садржаја актуелне у графици и у савременој слици, које карактерише обојеност и постепено увођење фигуративних акцената и записа, наводи ауторка. Од краја седме деценије његове графике карактеришу различити видови фигурације, реализоване у различитим техникама, од акватинте, преко литографије која му пружа услове за увођење боје, до комбинације акватинте и резерваша која омогућава префињене тонске прелазе у оквиру црно-белог дијапазона. Тематске ситуације у којима су присутни људска фигура и продукти човековог рада и бивствовања, карактеришу распричаност, иронија, гротеска, метафоричко-симболички тон, аполонијко-дионизијски сукоб. Од поп арт „реализма“ у раним годинама стваралаштва, Милан Станојев је стигао до гротеске и друштвене критике у завршној фази бављења графиком крајем прошлог века. Током година, експериментисао је с могућностима графичке плоче, технолошке бравуре изводио на темама „малих ствари“ (воће, свакодневни употребни предмети попут завесе, корпе за веш, јастучница и сличног), приказивао поетичке вредности предела, истраживао светлост и сенку у природи и на урбаним исечцима, да би у једном тренутку природу вратио у домен асоцијативног. Упоредо се исказао и као цртач изазивајући посматрача да се запита да ли је цртеж увек претходио графици, или је поступак обрнут.
Мада делује неспојиво, слично је и са сликарством које представља значајан сегмент, а од почетака овог века преовлађујућу технику у раду Милана Станојева, напомиње ауторка. Његове слике монументалног формата евоцирају различите етапе графичког рада, али паралелно живе потпуно нови и другачији живот, често залазећи у домен апстракције. Мада актуелан више од две деценије, овај део стваралаштва Милана Станојева још чека на право тумачење, које ће можда, истиче Јасна Јованов, бити иницирано управо овом изложбом у организацији Галерије савремене ликовне уметности Ниш, коју ће публика моћи да посети до 15. априла.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbVwj43CDC8
Ликовна колонија Сићево 2022. и 2023. / Уметничка галерија Крушевац
Уметничка галерија, Мајке Југовића 12, Крушевац
Приређивање изложбе дела насталих у оквиру рада два сазива Ликовне колоније Сићево, 2022. и 2023. године, у Уметничкој галерији у Крушевцу, пада у години у којој се бележи 60 година од обнављања рада ове најстарије ликовне колоније у Србији, и у којој се сустичу неколико јубилеја. Наиме, у тек протеклој години низом изложби и манифестација обележено је 150 година од рођења најзначајније српске уметнице Надежде Петровић, сликарке, фотографкиње, хуманисте, ратне болничарке, активисткиње за социјална, друштвена и женска права, чијим је залагањем на окупљању сликара вођених јужнословенском идејом, поред организације изложби и оснивања ликовних удружења, у селу Сићеву надомак Ниша 1905. године, утемељена прва ликовна колонија. Већ, наредна година, 2025. бележи, поред 110 година од смрти Надежде Петровић, и 120 година од оснивања Ликовне колоније Сићево, данас међународног карактера.
Шездесет одржаних годишњих сазива и изложба 59. и 60. сазива Ликовне колоније „Сићево“ разлог су сажетог подсећања на њено оснивање. Ово је друга изложба Колоније у досадашњој пракси установе којом се обједињују дела два сазива. Наиме, пандемијске околности 2020. и 2021. године навеле су на овај искорак, који је резултирао програмом који атрактивније и примереније одражава дисперзивност уметничког тренутка, нешто ширим увидом у разноликости мишљења дела. ...
ЕГЗИСТЕНЦИЈАЛНА ПИТАЊА У САВРЕМЕНОЈ СКУЛПТОРСКОЈ ПРАКСИ
Бијеналe плаката пекиншке опере
Официрски дом, 5 - 30. 3. 2024.
Бијенале плаката пекиншке опере је основано 2022. године, са циљем да кроз дизајн плаката представи и промовише пекиншку оперу, која је као традиционална уметничка форма веома важан чинилац кинеске културне баштине. Кроз бројне изложбе широм света (Кина, Јапан, Сингапур, Пољска, Мексико, Канада) Бијенале такође афирмише међународну размену у области дизајна и уметности, те подстиче интернационални стваралачки дијалог.
Пекиншка опера је јединствена уметничка форма, која претставља симбиозу музике, вокалног извођења, мимике, плеса и борилачких вештина, те сажима готово све фолклорне елемената Кине. Боје, звуци, сваки корак, поглед и орнамент носе дубоко значење. Сценографија је минималистичка, а време и радњу одређују музика и симболи. Бич у руци постаје коњ, весло прелази реку, а барјаци на леђима евоцирају војсковођу. Костими говоре о друштвеној улози и положају ликова, док маске откривају њихову суштину. Црвена маска симболизује поштење, бела лаж, жута храброст, а златна божанство.
На конкурс овог бијенала пристигло је 1196 радова из 35 земаља. Међународни жири, на челу са др Ли Шуом, предавачем и кустосом из Пекинга, одабрао је 50 плаката за ову изложбу. Учесници су признати уметници на пољу плаката из Кине, Индонезије, Пољске, Немачке, Србије, Словеније, Словачке, Шпаније и Колумбије.
У својству коорганизатора изложбе у Нишу на свечаном отварању изложбе публици ће се обратиће графички дизајнер Иван Мишић, а својим присустваом догађај ће увеличати и др Ли Шу, председник селекционе комисије Бијенала.
Упознавање са светом алегорија и симбола пекиншке опере и висок ниво савременог графичког обликовања разлози су због којих Гарлија СЛУ позива публику да неизоставно посети ову изложбу у Официрском дому до 30. марта.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66irnpV8Dig