Što je nama naša borba dala II

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01 Aug

The second exhibition within the art project called “What our struggle gave us”, organized by the National Museum of Montenegro, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Montenegrin national uprising and the 70th anniversary of the founding of the NOB Museum, was opened last night in the Montenegrin Art Gallery “Miodrag Dado Đurić” in Cetinje.

How the achievements won in the NOB and the revolution were reflected in contemporary Montenegrin fine art, how they artistically reflect/articulate freedom, anti-fascism, gender equality, social justice and numerous themes conceived/opened in the socialist, post-war period and how current and present they are today, the reference artists of the contemporary art scene, invited by the author of the art project, Dr. Anastazija Miranović: Dimitrije Popović, Zlatko Glamočak, Nataša Đurović, Vesko Gagović, Igor Rakčević, Jelena Tomašević, Ana Miljkovac, Suzana Pajović-Živković, Vana Prelević, Zoran Živković, Katarina Švabić, Maja Šofranac, Nada Kazić, Ana Matić, Anka Gardašević, David Delibašić, Milena Jovićević, Nikola Marković, Vlatka Vujošević, Dejan Batrićević and Lucy Heyward.

Opening the exhibition, the director of the National Museum, art historian Anastazija Miranović, PhD, said that with their lucid, intriguing and provocative reflections on given topics, artists focus attention on a certain current phenomenon, opening a discourse that problematizes, admonishes, scares and warns.

– In contrast to the first exhibition of this project, whose works, understandably, according to the time of their creation, were realized in classical art media – painting, drawing and sculpture, the works in this exhibition are predominantly conceptual in nature, realized mostly as installations, objects, video works, etc. , open up space for the artist’s statements about his own work, which form an integrative segment of the work itself – said Dr. Miranović and added that the special combination of different textual-form letters completes the desired, perceptive context, removing the barrier of “misunderstanding” of what is presented, which is then in the plane individual, cognitive and educational capacities.

The exhibition raises numerous questions: Is freedom essentially an ambivalent concept that is established in relation to the opposition that limits it, in a dichotomous correlation: slavery – freedom, war – peace, struggle – surrender?

– Do creative processes in art follow a spiral path, renewing processes and further development of previously adopted values? Or, in fact, is it a question of transgenerational transmissions of established narratives through the communication field of the phenomenology of “war folklore”, growing nationalisms, clerofascisms, hegemonisms, segregations, chauvinisms, ideological, religious and political exclusivity/intolerance, destructive processes, corruption, crime…? How to contribute to the “healing” of the whole society? Although we do not live in patriarchy, but a time of equal rights and opportunities, does it live in us and from us continue to act according to centuries-old, established matrices of collective thinking/behavior? Did the women in the bloody struggle “abort” the equality and the right to vote in the unfortunate cohabitation of the virgin-starlet, as if they were in a state of willful hibernation for decades from which they could never wake up? Is the need to maintain the cohesion of mind and spirit, but also of basic communities – family and society, an essential or forced value? What makes us feel simultaneously proud, because of us in the past, and uneasy, because of us now? Have we self-forgotten and killed ourselves in our own ambivalence and cacophony of different expressions of the new reality? We have to give the answers to these questions ourselves – said project author Dr. Anastazija Miranović.

The art project, on which the National Museum has been working for several months, consists of three segments: Exhibition of works on a given topic, the so-called of “old” masters, which was opened on July 12 and includes works of art by more than 20 authors from the National Museum of Montenegro, exhibitions of works by artists invited by the author of the project and, finally, exhibitions of works by younger artists who were selected through a public competition, that is, selected by the NMCG expert jury, which will be opened on August 16.

All three exhibitions will be on display until the end of August.