11.10.2017
“Poetics and Fate of the 20th Century” in front of the Citizens of Pančevo
Last night the exhibition titled “Poetics and Fate of the 20th Century” which is a part of the rich Art Collection of the Central Military Club was opened in Pančevo.At the opening of the exhibition, the citizens of Pančevo, who had had an opportunity last year to also see the exhibition “The Confessions of Yugoslav Modernism” were addressed by: Colonel Stevica Karapanžin, Director of the Media Centre “Odbrana”, Miroslav Birclin, Acting Director of the National Museum of Pančevo and Senior Curator Jelena Knežević, Head of the Central Military Club Gallery.
Colonel Karapanžin emphasised that the poetics of this exhibition was mirrored in merging of creative worlds and specific expressions which overcame political, national or any other restriction.
- Despite everything that happened in the 20th century, the fate of all creators, whose art we are looking, wound around art, in which, regardless of their differences, all of them were united – the Colonel concluded.
Acting Director of the National Museum of Pančevo, Miroslav Birclin expressed his satisfaction because the citizens of Pančevo would have another opportunity to see the exhibition that encompasses the works created during the 20th century including the period directly after the Second World War, whose analysis could help observe the development of visual art creation in the territory of then Yugoslavia.
Opening the exhibition, Senior Curator Jelena Knežević said that starting from that evening, the walls of the National Museum in Pančevo would be embellished by the works of Vlah Bukovac, Ljuba Ivanović, Sava Šumanović, and the works of Mile Milunović, Ljuba Babić, Kosta Hakman, Jovan Bijelić, and that the major part of the exhibition consisted of the works of Serbian and Yugoslav artists created in the second half of the 20th century starting from Zora Petrović, Milan Konjovic, Marko Čelebonobić, Ljubica Cuca Sokić and other great artists of Yugoslav artistic creation.So far the exhibition was viewed by 30,000 visitors all over Serbia, and the citizens of Pančevo will have the opportunity to see it until 31st October 2017.
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