03.11.2016
Masterpieces of Serbian modernism in Central Military Club in Belgrade
The exhibition "Representations of man: the masterpieces of Serbian modernism" from the National Museum in Smederevska Palanka, has been officially opened in the Great Gallery of the Central Military Club today.It is about seventy works featuring portraits, nudes, figures and compositions. The exhibited paintings, aquarelles and drawings are the works of Serbian and Yugoslav artists including Paja Jovanovic, Uros Predic, Leon Koen, Marko Murat, Milan Milovanovic, Natalija Cvetkovic, Beta Vukanović, Zora Petrovic, Petar Dobrovic, Milan Konjovic, Jovan Bijelic, Sava Sumanovic and other.
The author of the exhibition and the accompanying catalogue is the art historian Ana Milosevic, PhD.
At the opening of the exhibition, the participants were addressed by Colonel Stevica S. Karapandzin, Director of Odbrana Media Centre, Stevan Martinovic, Director of the National Museum in Smederevska Palanka and Nikola Kusovac, art historian, who expressed his surprise that capital's media have not given more attention to the exhibition of masterpieces of the Serbian modernism, bearing in mind what kind of thing is happening,.
- That is why I need to commend what Odbrana Media Centre does, recognising the true values and not missing an opportunity to bring us the joy working with institutions that have such important collections, such as the National Museum in Smederevo – the renowned connoisseur of the fine art said, referring to the history of that institution established in the sixties of the last century.
Speaking about the exhibited works, Kusovac pointed out that they were "pearls, beautiful and rare pieces, in front of which one can simply stand and enjoy, as the man is in the focus of this exhibition, as he is in the focus of the entire arts".Director of the National Museum in Smederevo, Stevan Martinovic, said that there is something interesting in the fact that the museum from a small town filled a truck with masterpieces and headed to Belgrade.
- For this, the people who created the National Museum in Smederevo sixties and seventies and gave it a cosmopolitan, rather than the expected local dimension, got credit, Martinovic said and expressed his satisfaction that the collection of masterpieces, after 28 years, was once again hosted in the capital, for which he thanked the Odbrana Media Centre.
Colonel Stevica S. Karapandzin, Director of the Odbrana Media Centre, pointed out that this institution profiled at a very high level, when it comes to the programme that it prepares for visitors.
- As we are a house of the Serbian military ethos, we sometimes "jump out" from a purely artistic waters, so we recently had an exhibition displaying the decorations of one of the greatest Serbian Field Marshals, Petar Bojovic, with uniforms and sabres, but we always come back to the standards that we have established in art – Colonel Karapandzin said and announced that in January next year, as part of celebrating the Day of Odbrana MC, a catalogue of an art collection of the Central Military Club, consisting of more than 1,500 world-class works of art will be promoted.It was originally planned that the exhibition is open until 19th November, but it could have been heard at the opening that it is likely to last for ten days longer.
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