07.06.2017
With the opening of the exhibition "Tapestry scene Novi Sad"
From tonight until 26 June 2017, the walls of the Grand Gallery of the Serbian Army will adorn tapestries integrated in an exhibition entitled "From the Collection of the Atelier 61 - Novi Sad Tapestry scene." Embodiment 11 artists such as Bosko Petrovic, Etelka Tobolka, Nade Poznanović Adzic, Nade Mančić and Borislav Nikolovski, justify the essence and meaning authentic tapestries, and because of high artistic achievements and great artistic strength are important determinants in defining the identity of Novi Sad Tapestry scene.In nearly sixty tapiserijskog media development in our region, were formed two centers tapestries, one in Belgrade and one in Novi Sad, in which tapestry nurtured and developed as a special branch of art. Over the years, emerged as the difference between artists who have worked in these two centers and the management of the institution for the tapestry "Studio 61", its founding, exhibitions, competitions and directionality, had a decisive influence on the autonomous development of Novi Sad as tapiserijskog center.
Head of the Military Gallery, Senior Curator Jelena Knezevic, reminded the guests gathered at the opening of that institution for the tapestry "Studio 61" and Gallery of VS cooperate more than half a century, more precisely since 1962, when just in the gallery held its first solo exhibition of the Atelier 61, as well as the art collection of the House VS within the collections of applied art, is a number of tapestries made in the second half of the 20th century, which are like the disclosed embodiments, ogleadalo time and place of its creation.Theodore G. Jankovic, responsible for public relations at Atelier 61, pointed to the exhibition as a kind of homage to the simultaneous presentation of development Tapestry Arts in Novi Sad, the parts of the oeuvre of the artist whose specialty there are creative people who are tapestry selected for their primary vocation, among they are also the founders of Atelier 61.
- With numerous works from home and abroad, it is important to note that our collection, in its decades-long tradition, has over 280 tapiserijskih work and that as many as 80 artists from Novi Sad tapestries exhibited right in our own Atelier 61, said Jankovic.The author of the exhibition, art historian and curator of the Atelier 61, Goranka Vukadinović, made a reference to the institutions that had an impact on the development of tapestry in the aforementioned centers.
- In Belgrade, large contributions from the Academy of Applied Arts, Department of Textiles, where the tapestry taught as a separate subject, then the Museum of Applied and Contemporary Art Museum. It should be mentioned and Catalog, which has encouraged the development and tapestry artists Belgrade Circle, who have contributed to the specifics of Belgrade Tapestry scene. On the other hand, there are several reasons why Novi Sad, as well as slightly older center, independently developed. The decisive role in this was played by the date of establishment of Atelier 61. This facility has enabled artists to daily dealings with the weavers, who were informed about all the advantages tapestry of different materials and techniques that characterize it as a medium.
Finally, the author of the exhibition added that although the collection of Atelier 61 and represents the intersection tapiserijskih events in Novi Sad, as well as in the former Yugoslavia, there are other elements that define the art scene of the city.- Tapestry scene of our town and make all the tapestries that are in museums, galleries, private collections, then those that enrich many public spaces and institutions, but also the ones that keep artists in their collections. Collection of the Atelier 61 is the richest and the representative of the Novi Sad-based Tapestry scene and this exhibition is just one of the possible ways in which invited artists who dealt with tapestry.
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