16.10.2015

Exhibition "Poetics and the fate of the 20th century" featured in the National Museum of Smederevska Palanka

The guest representative exhibition of works from the Collection of the Central Military Club "Poetics and the fate of the 20th century" was opened tonight at the National Museum of Smederevska Palanka. Speeches at the opening ceremony were held by Nikola Kusovac, art historian, Stevan Martinovic, Director of the National Museum Smederevska Palanka, and Lt. Col. Zoran Krupez, Deputy Director of Odbrana Media Centre.

The exhibition, made by art historian Nikola Kusovac and former director of the Gallery of the Central Military Club Milorad Bubanja, contains the works of artists from the former Yugoslav territories.

At the opening ceremony, the guests were addressed by Lieutenant Colonel Zoran Krupez, Deputy Director of Odbrana Media Centre, who specifically pointed out that the exhibition has so far been seen by about 20,000 visitors during guest exhibitions in Novi Sad, Nis, Pozarevac, Jagodina, Vrsac, Zrenjanin and Sombor and that he was honoured that the audience in Palanka will also have the opportunity to become acquainted with the works of famous painters.

- We will be happy to show you in the future other exhibitions from our collection as well, such as "Mirror of time", "Reading the line," "Confessions of Yugoslav modernism", "Small stories from the Great War", and to welcome all of you, when you way come to Belgrade, in the Gallery of the Central Military Club, which is open throughout the whole year.

Director of the National Museum Smederevska Palanka Stevan Martinovic said that he was honoured to have the opportunity to work with Odbrana Media Centre, an institution which in recent years has become one of the most renowned exhibition institutions in the Serbian capital.

- Officially, the cooperation with Odbrana Media Centre We started two days ago, when, in the Small Gallery of the Central Military Club, the exhibition "Sword and Pen" was opened, dedicated to General and academic Zivko Pavlovic, and today we are honoured to welcome our friends from the Ministry of Defence that are presented to us through this valuable artistic exhibit.

Kusovac spoke about authors and their displayed works, and visitors in Smederevska Palanka were presented with 42 works from the collection.

- The selection we made strived to give us an aesthetically pleasing experience, because we live in a time of so-called postmodernism. With this exhibition, we tried to preserve the spirit by creating, without anything that destroys. Our artists who knew how to make what should be made in the painting, which we present to you tonight, left a serious mark, and had never accepted to deplete something without offering a new value - the author of the exhibition said.

The exhibition in Smedevska Palanka will be open until 6 November 2015.