The exhibition Line that precedes the time of the prominent Montenegrin artist Uroš Tošković at the Sinagoga Gallery in Niš is being organized after it was presented to the Belgrade audience at the RTS Gallery. And it is thanks to colleagues, curators and their desire to introduce the work of this author to the audience all over Serbia, Ms. Aleksandra Jelisavac, that she is now in our city.
According to art critics, Tošković was one of the best cartoonists of the second half of the twentieth century, an art philosopher who defied social conventions, the commercialization of art and the inappropriate exploitation of man. And the very motto of this artist Freedom either lifts a man or destroys him.I am only a slave to art is a witness to his efforts to expose reality as it is and to warn of what could happen with a specific, seemingly dark poetics, humanely, without any hatred, through the emotions, inner turmoil, pain and suffering of his characters. Undoubtedly, the formation of Uroš Tošković’s artistic expression was contributed by his childhood marked by the horrors of war, tragic scenes of suffering and great poverty, and at a very early stage, he drew dead soldiers and horses that he saw in his surroundings, following the aesthetics of art δrut.
Here are some biographical details – He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, in the class of prof. Marko Čeleδonović, is one of the founders of the Baltazar Friends Society, which later grew into the Mediala group. He was a scholarship recipient of the French Government, and his long-term stay in Paris, the center of intense artistic events in the sixties and seventies of the last century, later in America, shaped the artistic personality of Uroš Tošković, who spent the last decades of his life in Belgrade, later in Montenegro.
He is the winner of the Thirteenth of July Award of the Government of the Republic of Montenegro and a special award for original expression from the world gallery for art on paper Osten in Skopje. He acquired the status of prominent cultural creator of Montenegro in 2010.
During his lifetime, he prepared about 50 independent and participated in a large number of collective presentations in the country and abroad. Called a dark single, an individual and someone who is not of this world, he left behind a rich opus worthy of respect; his works are part of numerous museum and private collections around the world.Unfortunately, many works have been lost due to family moves.
He did not exhibit independently in Niš, and now, thanks to the collector Nenad Radović, we have the opportunity to present fifty works created during his stay in Paris, mostly charcoal, ink, and pencil drawings, to familiarize ourselves with the significant period of Uroš Tošković’s creativity. and these works will be in front of the audience, as a significant testimony of an artistic path traveled during 87 years of life, until August 1.