The National Museum of Montenegro started this year’s exhibition season with the exhibition “Synergy of Opposites”, which opened last night in the Montenegrin Art Gallery “Miodrag Dado Đurić” in Cetinje. The project represents the artistic research of four teachers from the Faculty of Graphic Arts and the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts from Gdańsk and is the result of long-term cooperation between the Faculty of Fine Arts from Cetinje and the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, within the framework of the Erasmus + program of international credit mobility. The exhibition presents the works of Polish artists: Aleksandra Jadčuk, Lukas Butovski, Marek Vrzesinski and Slavomir Vitkovski.

The vice-dean for international cooperation of the Faculty of Fine Arts, assistant professor Maja Šofranac, MA, said that artists approach painting as a universal, archetypal means of communication, with which people have communicated since prehistoric times, and added that each of the four approaches is characterized by an individual, unique way of articulating form and meaning. which is a personal interpretation and description of contemporary material and spiritual reality.

– Artists find inspiration in tradition, some in abstract art, and others in figurative art. At the exhibition, you can see the painting experiments of Aleksandra Jadčuk, in which the landscape motif takes the conventional form of a sign, reinforced by the rhythm and texture of the painting. Marek Vrzesinski presents magical images of symbols drawn from the vastness of esoteric mysteries, inviting us to think about them. For Slavomir Vitkovski, art is like a journey through life in the changing rhythm of events. He suggests that we stop and think about the war in Ukraine, which has been going on for more than a year, while Łukasz Butovski in his expressive paintings seduces us with a personal invitation to think about the meaning of human life, opposing and interpenetrating the feelings of existential happiness and suffering – said Maja Saffron.

The artists Marek Vrzesinski and Slavomir Vitkovski addressed those present.

The exhibition will be open until May 4, 2023.