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ZOGRAF – ARTIST ASSOCIATION
The Museum of Rudnicko-Takovski Kraj in Gornji Milanovac in cooperation with the Museum of Contemporary Art, the National Museum in Belgrade and the Gallery of Matica Srpska in Novi Sad
invite to the opening of the exhibition
ZOGRAF – ARTIST ASSOCIATION
80 years from the first exhibition of the artist association Zograf
Thursday, September 15th 2011 at 7PM
Museum Gallery, Sindjeliceva Street 7, Gornji Milanovac
ZOGRAF GROUP
Presentation of the art exhibition Zograf in 2011 celebrates the eightieth anniversary of the first collective exhibition of this Belgrade artist association, in 1931 in Novi Sad and Osijek. The activities of the artist association Zograf (Zivorad Nastasijevic, Vasa Pomorisac, Ilija Kolarovic, sculptor, Stasa Belozanski, painter and stage designer, Radmila Milojkovic, Svetolik Lukic, Josip Car and Zdravko Sekulic, as well as architects Branislav Kojic and Bogdan Nestorovic) represent an important moment in the development of Serbian modernism during the third and at the beginning of the fourth decade of the 20th century. In addition to founding painters associations in Serbia that fought for the spreading of the European ideas of pure visuality, following the example of the School of Paris, the artists gathered around Zograf were building an authentic, national style, based on Serbian artistic tradition, whose visual ideas and spirituality they endeavored to transpose to contemporaneity, by modern visual means, with historical and national subject matter. The group was formed in 1927 and it made its appearances at art gatherings until 1933, while it wasn’t officially disbanded until 1940.
The exhibition is realized by the Museum of Rudnicko-Takovski Kraj in Gornji Milanovac in cooperation with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade. Thirty-five original artworks will be exhibited from four Serbian museum institutions: the National Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, the Museum of Rudnicko-Travnicki Kraj and the Gallery of Matica Srpska. Scene design and architecture, as well as a sample of a stained-glass window, specific forms of the blend between visual and applied art, will be presented on the educational panels.
The exhibition will first be presented in Gornji Milanovac in 2011, then in Belgrade, and then it will visit the Gallery of Matica Srpska in Novi Sad and the National Museum in Kraljevo during 2012.
Exhibition conception and organization: Zana Gvozdenovic, museum consultant of the MCA Belgrade
Project assistant: Ana Bolovic, curator, Gornji Milanovac
