21.03.2013
Exhibition of Paintings from the Art Collection of the Central Military Club in Jagodina
Exhibition of paintings Poetics and the Fate of the Twentieth Century from the Art Collection of the Central Military Club of the Serbian Armed Forces will be displayed at the Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art in Jagodina, in the period from 22 March to 12 April 2013. At the opening ceremony, on Friday 22 March at 7:00 p.m., the speakers will be Nikola Kusovac, an art historian, Nina Krstic, Director of the Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art and Lieutenant Colonel Slavoljub Markovic, Director of the Odbrana Media Centre.
Exhibition of paintings Poetics and the Fate of the Twentieth Century from the Art Collection of the Central Military Club is a representative selection of paintings from the art collection of the Central Military Club of the Serbian Armed Forces, with more than 1,500 exhibits.
Setting made by art historian Nikola Kusovac and former head of the Gallery of the Central Military Club Milorad Bubanja, comprises 46 paintings by 42 artists from the former Yugoslav space like Vlah Bukovac, Jovan Bijelic, Ljubo Babic, Lazar Vujaklija, Ljuba Ivanovic, Petar Lubarda, Pedja Milosavljevic, Miodrag B. Protic, Sreten Stojanovic, Marina Tartalja, Aleksandar Tomasevic, Kosta Hakman, Krsto Hegedusic, Marko Čelebonovic, Sava Šumanovic and others.
The exhibition is a part of the offer of Odbrana Media Centre in cooperation and exchange of programmes with museums, galleries, bequests, endowments and other cultural institutions in Serbia. So far it was presented in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Nis and Zrenjanin and attracted much public attention. After Jagodina, the exhibition will be hosted by the City Museum of Vrsac and the Cultural Centre of Lazarevac.
Collection of the Central Military Club was formed mainly from gifts of artists who have exhibited for decades in the Gallery of Central Military Club, and in part, from the purchase of works of art. It includes significant accomplishments that were created during the 20th century, including the period immediately after World War II, the analysis of which can show the development of fine arts in the former Yugoslavia.
