.FROM ABSTRACTION TO LANDSCAPES OF SENSUALITY.

IVAN RADOVIC – FROM ABSTRACTION TO LANDSCAPES OF SENSUALITY

Ceremonial opening: Thursday, February 24th at 1PM.

With the exhibition IVAN RADOVIC – FROM ABSTRACTION TO LANDSCAPES OF SENSUALITY, audience will be presented with a part of the Museum on the Move project of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, in the Gallery-Legacy of Milica Zoric and Rodoljub Colakovic. The project goal, in the period of reconstruction of the Museum building, is to present its opulent art funds in the museum and gallery spaces of the Serbian cities and thus intensify the cooperation with kindred institutions in the country.

IVAN RADOVIC – FROM ABSTRACTION TO LANDSCAPES OF SENSUALITY
“There’s no honesty of feeling without naiveté of the heart.” “I loved to love.”
(Ivan Radovic)

Ivan Radovic, a well-known Serbian modernist, went through a number of different visual-art phases: cubo-constructivism, neoclassicism, abstraction, naivism, intimism, poetic realism. Naivism as an attitude, and as a new object of painting, also reveals exploration on a purely artistic level, with emotional, personal interpretation of art, in an authentic joy of living, and points to an orientation towards the internal world. The main subject of Radovic’s painting is the Vojvodina village, with its recognizable atmosphere of optimism, humanity and sensuality, and a spontaneous, fateful love towards the native soil. The goal of the exhibition is to shed light anew on Radovic’s opus, by bringing back into public focus the work of this significant artist. Twenty-two pieces will be exhibited, from all the phases of the artist’s stylistic development. There are four category A pieces in this selection.

Considering in a nutshell, Ivan Radovic’s opus on the example of pieces that are kept in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, without the idea of redefining the already known stylistic orientations, often parallel, sometimes retrograde, but more often avant-garde, in this exhibition, we can see a model segment of Radovic’s opus, regarded from a viewpoint as close as possible to the work itself, as well as in the concrete question of art with which Radovic was so deeply and passionately occupied.

The exhibition of Ivan Radovic’s works was presented 2009 in the National Museum Valjevo, 2010 in the Cultural Center Vrsac and in the Memorial Collection of Pavle Beljanski in Novi Sad. For the first time the exhibition will be presented in Belgrade.

Ivan Radovic was born on June 22nd 1894 in Vrsac, and he died in Belgrade on August 14th 1973. He studied painting in Budapest, at the Art Academy. In 1929, he became the champion of Yugoslavia in tennis. He played for the Davis Cup in 1930 as a member of the national team of Yugoslavia. Solo exhibitions in Belgrade were held (1925, 1928, 1929, 1932, 1952, 1960, 1966, 1971, 1984 – drawings), in Novi Sad (1966) etc. He regularly exhibited at group exhibitions in the country and, as a state representative of Yugoslavia, abroad. He did pedagogical work (Art School in Belgrade and others). He won many awards and recognitions; from 1970 he was a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.