15.04.2013
Exhibition "Through Heroism to Fame" opens at the Gallery of the Central Military Club
In the Great Gallery of the Central Military Club today, an exhibition of paintings and photographs collectively titled "Through Heroism to Fame" and subtitled "The Balkan wars in the works of artists" from the collection of the Military Museum and "Serbian soldier in the First Balkan War of 1912-1913" has been opened.In his opening speech, the Director of the Institute for Contemporary History, Professor Momcilo Pavlovic, expressed his pleasure because the authors were the young people who were aware of the importance of the Balkan wars in the history of our nation.
- History demands, as someone once said, not to take our eyes off the Balkans, Professor Pavlovic said noting that the history associates all the world powers with the Balkans.
According to the d
irector of Odbrana Media Centre Lieutenant Colonel Slavoljub Markovic, by this exhibition, this house in cooperation with the Military Museum, Serbian academia, and PU "Official Gazette" contributes to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Balkan wars.As pointed out by Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Mijatovic, PhD, Head of the Military Museum, in the year of jubilee, the brave deeds of our great ancestors, which, five centuries later, expelled Ottoman Empire from these parts, should be introduced to the younger generation, sending the message that they must not be forgotten.
The artists who created in the early 19th century, according to the senior curator of the Military Museum Ljubica Dabic, were chroniclers of the war events, and their works are an important testimony and a historical source. The Serbian Army, as she put it, introduced during the Balkan wars a unique title of "a war artist", which is a unique case in the history of warfare, and during that time there were about twenty of them.
Photos from the life of a Serbian soldier from mobilisation and setting off to war to the end of the war are presented within these settings whose authors are history students at the Philosophy Faculty in Belgrade: Smiljana Cakarevic, Nemanja Devic, Vojin Maletkovic and Predrag Aranđelovic, gathered in the Serbian academia.Exhibition of paintings and drawings includes works of Serbian war artists from the collection of the Military Museum that were made during the Balkan wars. The display includes the works of Nadezda Petrovic, Mihailo Milovanovic, Natalija Cvetkovic and Petar Ranosovic. Author of the exhibition is Ljubica Dabic, a senior curator of the Military Museum.
During the exhibition, lectures, book presentations, minstrel's – poetry evening and film screening will be organized. The exhibition is open until 30 April 2013. Working hours of the Gallery of the Central Military Club are from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. every day except Sunday.
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