27.03.2013
Gallery of Central Military Club becomes a member of Serbian Museum Association
Gallery of the Central Military Club joined the Serbian Museum Association, the professional association of museum workers, museums and museum institutions, at the annual assembly of this association held at the Military Museum on 25 March.
The goals of the Serbian Museum Association, which gathers together more than 50 museums and museum institutions, are the long-term development and advancement of the museum profession, museology, and other related technical and scientific areas, preservation and presentation of cultural heritage and the protection of the professional and social status of the members.
GALLERY OF THE CENTRAL MILITARY CLUB
Exhibiting activity of the Central Military Club in Belgrade has a long tradition. It was founded in 1945 on the initiative of Branko Sotra, the first post-war head of that institution, the known fine art artist and founder of the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade. The Gallery of the Central Military Club has so far organized more than five hundred exhibitions of renowned fine art artists. Eight quadrennials on the subject of "National Liberation Front in the works of fine art artist" and many thematic exhibitions "Military in the works of fine art artist" were held.Since 1953, the exhibitions have been organized in a gallery that is now known as the Grand Gallery, and in 2011, the so called Little Gallery of the Central Military Club was furnished in which the accompanying programmes for the exhibitions in the Grand Gallery, author's and group exhibitions of fine art artist and exhibitions of photographs from the archives of Odbrana MC are organised.
According to the new exhibiting concept of the Media Centre, which has been applied since the end of 2010, in the Gallery of the Central Military Club, representative exhibitions in cooperation with museums, galleries, foundations, endowments and other cultural institutions in Serbia are organized. The exhibitions have been very well received by fine art lovers and restored the reputation that the gallery used to have.
Rich fine
art collections of Sava Sumanovic gallery of paintings from Sid, Military Museum, Nadezda Petrovic Art Gallery from Cacak, Momo Kapor Foundation, Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection from Novi Sad, Pozarevac Historical Archives, Modern Gallery of Lazarevac Cultural Centre, Vrsac City Museum, Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art from Jagodina, collector Dragoljub Milicevic, Novi Sad Gallery of Matica Srpska, Novi Pazar Cultural Centre and the National Museum of Zrenjanin, Nis and Pozarevac have been exhibited so far in the Central Military Club. Since 2010, Odbrana MC has participated in the "Night of Museums" event which is one of the most important and most popular cultural events in our country. Attractive programmes in the SAF Central Military Club each year attract the attention of more than 5,000 visitors.
Exhibitions and numerous accompanying programmes in the past two years were visited by more than 120,000 people, what puts the Central Military Club among the most visited exhibition halls in Belgrade.
ART COLLECTION OF THE GALLERY OF THE CENTRAL MILITARY CLUB
Art Collection o
f the Gallery of the Central Military Club has more than 1,500 works of painting artists of all ages from the territory of the former Yugoslavia. The collection mainly consists of works that were once bought and presents of artists who once exhibited in the Central Military Club of participated in the fine art colonies in the organization of this institution.The collection also contains a number of significant achievements made during the first half of the 20th century, such as paintings of Vlah Bukovac, Ljuba Ivanovic, Sava Šumanovic and Marina Tartalja. However, the backbone of its values is works of Serbian and Yugoslav artists that were made after the Second World War until the breakup of Yugoslavia. Among them, the most important works are those of Milo Milunovic, Jovan Bijelic, Ljubo Babic, Kosta Hakman, Peter Lubarda, Zora Petrovic, Milan Konjovic, Krsto Hegedušic, Mica Todorovic, Vilim Svecnjak, Marko Celebonovic, Nikola Mrtinoski, Majda Kurnik, Miodrag B. Protic, Milan Popovic, Aleksandar Tomasevic, Lazar Vujaklija, Pedja Milosavljevic, Anton Gojmir Kos, Franc Mihelic Vinko Grdan, Nedeljko Gvozdenovic, Mica Popovic, Ljubica Cuca Sokic, Ksenija Divjak, Voja Stanic, Miljenko Stancic, and sculptors Sreten Stojanovic, Risto Stijovic , Matija Vukovic, Nebojsa Mitric and other prominent persons in fine arts.
Many of the
se works have never been exhibited and until recently were unknown even to art historians. It has been planned to professionally process the art works and prepare a collection catalogue which will bring it closer and present it to the fine art lovers and professionals. The collection is stored in a renovated depot which is equipped according to modern museological standards.A representative selection of paintings from the collection in the exhibition "Poetics and the fate of 20th Century", by Nikola Kusovac, art historian and Milorad Bubanja, a long-time curator of the Gallery of the Central Military Club, was presented so far in Novi Sad, Nis, Belgrade, Zrenjanin and Jagodina, and in 2013, the tours have been arranged in Vrsac, Lazarevac and other cities within the exchange of programmes and cooperation with cultural institutions.
