29.10.2012
Opening of the exhibition and concert of Pavle Aksentijevic and band "Zapis" in the Central Military Club
An exhibition of paintings by Dragoslav Pavle Aksentijevic "At rest" will be opened at the Small Gallery of the Central Military Club on Friday, 2 November at 19.00 p.m.The exhibition consists of 32 paintings created in the period from 2007 to 2012. After opening the exhibition, a concert of sacred music by the band "Zapis" will be performed at the Conference Hall of the Central Military Club at 20.00 a.m. Admission is free.The exhibition will be open until 15 November 2012.
Dragoslav Pavle Aksentijevic was born in Belgrade in 1942. He received his Bachelor and Master degrees at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. For his paintings he selected metaphysical themes, leaving the viewer to comprehend himself what is far away and unattainable. In addition to painting, he also deals with Serbian and ancient Byzantine music. This authentic seeker – restorer and performer of medieval music sound track, greatly contributed to the preservation and presentation of Serbian and Byzantine musical legacy. He has performed in numerous concerts at home and abroad, with the humming (ison) of a smaller male vocal ensemble (up to five members).
In September 1988 he received his first award for the interpretation of Byzantine chant at the International Choir Festival in Karditsa (Greece), and in January 1990 he won the only prize of the festival in Moscow. He was awarded the prize of the Fund for the culture of the City of Belgrade for 1989, the Gold Medal of cultural and educational community of Serbia in 1990, award of the Innsbruck radio in 1990, the annual award of the Association of Musical Artists of Serbia in 2000, the award of the Cultural and Educational Association of Belgrade "Golden Ring" in 2003, and the Vuk’s award in 2008.The band "Zapis" was founded in 2000, with the aim to deal with Serbian folk music preserved to these days in the living oral tradition. Programmes of the band were made based on the melographic records of our musicologists from the area of Eastern and Southern Serbia and Kosovo and Metohia.
