The exhibition of paintings by Momo Kapor "The Most Beautiful Stories" will be opened on Friday, September 3, at 7 pm in the Grand Gallery of the Army House in Belgrade and will last until November 6, and admission will be free for all visitors.

The exhibition is organized by the "Momcilo Momo Kapor" Endowment in cooperation with the Ministry of Defense and the "Defense" Media Center.

According to the announcement, the exhibition will also feature paintings that have not been exhibited anywhere so far and belong to private collections, and the most represented will be paintings from the collection of Miloš Petković.

All 35 paintings are oils on canvas and will be exhibited in ambient units that will complement the furniture and objects that Momo Kapor used during his life and work to create his works of art and literature. Visitors will be able to enjoy works from various periods, and the pictures are accompanied by stories that will be collected in a special catalogue published by the Media Center "Defense" on the occasion of this exhibition.

"Like the mythical Greek king Mida, who turned everything he saw into gold, Momo Kapor turned everything he painted into beauty and everything he wrote and published became a bestseller. I called the exhibition "The Most Beautiful Stories" because Momina's paintings give us a lost, almost forgotten world, full of nostalgia, love, beauty. Because Moma was a man of Renaissance gifts and God endowed him with many talents. His insatiable curiosity and sense to perpetuate trifles, erudition in which, apart from memory, all the senses with which he lurked the story, atmosphere, smells, tastes, line, character are employed… Moma knew everything, and everything he knew he could write and to paint in a beautiful, enchanting way ", said Ljiljana Kapor, the president of the Endowment.

For two months, the documentary "Momo Uncut", which was shot in the production of the "Momo Kapor" Endowment, will be shown within the exhibition.

The exhibition will be opened by the writer and art critic Dragan J. Danilov, and parts from his books by actresses Rada Đuričin and Vjera Mujović will talk and read about Momi.

Before the opening of the exhibition, the young academic painter Petar Mošić, the winner of the "Momo Kapor" award for fine arts, will be solemnly presented with a silver plaque with the "school" motif and a cash prize.

Petar Mošić received the award for 2019, which could not be presented to him due to the current pandemic, and for the same reasons, the Endowment did not award the prize for literature last year, so the awarding of this prestigious recognition will continue next year.

Artist's biography:

Belgrade painter and writer Momo Kapor (Sarajevo, April 8, 1937 - Belgrade, March 3, 2010) came to Sarajevo at the age of nine, where he was born, and became one of the protagonists of the Belgrade storytelling school.

An academic painter by education, he graduated from the Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts in the class of Professor Nedeljko Gvozdenović; he entered the literary life of the capital in the early 1960s and has since published more than fifty books and novels. Provincijalac ,  Foliranti ,  Una ,  Zelena čoja Montenegro ,  Dosije Šlomović , Konte ,  Magija Beograda ,  Putopis kroz biografiju ,  Od istog pisca , Uspomene jednog crtača,  and many others were on the bestseller lists, and some of them are still on them.

It has been translated into many world languages. He differs from other Belgrade writers in that he illustrated his own books, cultivating a special lyrical drawing style. He was a long-term journalist-columnist of leading Belgrade newspapers. His oeuvre is completed by about twenty performed radio, TV and theater dramas, as well as several film scripts. According to his books, several feature films have been made, and he himself has been the screenwriter of many film and television projects. He rarely exhibited his paintings, several times in New York, Boston and Caracas, in Geneva, Frankfurt, Brussels, Paris, Udine, Zagreb, Belgrade, Novi Sad, Zrenjanin and Mećavnik. 

He was a regular member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republic of Srpska. 

Opening Date: 03rd September 2021
End Date: 06th November 2021
Location: Grand Gallery of the Army House in Belgrade (Serbia); 
                19 Brace Jugovica street, Belgrade 11000
Working hours: 11 a.m. - 7. p.m.;
                          closed on Sunday

Romanian Union of Visual Artists, Harghita branch, Harghita County Council, Harghita County Cultural Center, the Art Gallery of Harghita County Council, TRUICART Events Brand and Dan Tudor Truică, curator of the event, presented an art exhibition entitled “Contemporary Attitudes”, between 12-26 August, the second stage, which took place in the space of the Art Gallery of Harghita County Council.

The exhibition project is itinerated in 4 locations in the country, the first stage taking place at the UAP Brăila Art Gallery (July 8-22), the second being the one at the Art Gallery of the Harghita County Council, Miercurea Ciuc (12-26 August), following the Botoșani County Museum (September 2-16) and the “Victoria” Iași UAP Gallery (November 11-20).

With a solid base, this exhibition and curatorial approach brings together in the exhibition space a number of 24 professional visual artists such as Tibor Balla, Carmen Bazilescu, Angela Bocu, Botár László, Elena Dăscălescu, Cornelia Victoria Dedu, Ioana Enescu Truica, Eugen Vasile Iovan, Mariana Gavrilă Vesa, Ruxandra Sibil Mermeze, Iulian Mita, Gh Mosorescu, Gabriela Naftanaila Leventu, Lucia Ősz Trancota, Victoria Pastuch, Lucia Puscasu, Cristian Radu, Florentina Rizea, Ana Maria Rugescu, Vasile Saraci, Liviu Șoptelea, Szabó Árpád, Maria Untanu and Nicu Zimbroianu , which bring to the public their latest creations, made in various environments of traditional art such as painting, graphics and textile art, each bearing a distinct artistic brand.

"It is a large-scale event, a dear project, which was born as a necessary extension, more elaborate and more selective, of similar events in previous years organized under the auspices of TRUICART Events Brand in the country and abroad. (…) Regardless of the technique approached, the artists selected in this event demonstrate, once again, the timeliness and accuracy of a contemporary visual message connected to the latest European trends", said curator Dan Tudor Truica in the statement accompanying the exhibition.

We are talking about an exhibition event that has become a reference for contemporary Romanian art in recent years. At the same time, the exhibition is recognized for its itinerant character, bringing together professional visual artists, members of the Union of Visual Artists in Romania, but also young artists, graduates of art universities.

 Summer Recommendation #1: Street art outdoor lectures

You can use sunny days and nice weather in the city for active socializing and urban exploration. Remember the sentence: "Get to know your city to love it more"? This is exactly the principle on the basis of which open-air street art lectures were organized by the "Street Art Belgrade" association.

In addition to spending quality time outside, the participants get to know those features of Belgrade that they may not notice at first glance. The pearls of street art are presented in the tour but through the prism of the history of the capital. We offer several city locations: Savamala, Gornji Dorcol, Donji Dorcol, Vracar, New Belgrade and Topcider.

Street art walks last about 2.5 hours, and groups are organized depending on the number of participants, up to 10 and up to 20 people. The lecturers are art historians who have been researching graffiti and street art for several decades.

Visit link: 
streetartbelgrade.com

Summer recommendation #2: Souvenirs to be proud of from Novi Sad

Souvenirs are unavoidable "luggage" from a trip to remember, but also a great gift for friends abroad. In one store in the centre of Novi Sad, they are works of art and an occasion to happily tell at least a part of the history and tradition of our region through them.

Among the products, carpets are proposed to UNESCO as an intangible cultural asset, Zmijanje, which is already under the protection of UNESCO, and abyssal damask, specific in that, as in 1881, when it arrived in Serbia, the same machines were used.

 

There are also modern seamstresses by famous artist and costume designer Zagorka Stojanović, ceramic products that are modern, based on the tradition of workmanship or design, as well as works by Novi Sad painter Stanko Rodić, who is especially inspired by Petrovaradin Fortress, Novi Sad, Danube and Vojvodina landscapes.

Location: Dunavska 2 Street, Novi Sad (Serbia)

Summer Recommendation #3: Common Language Exhibition

The Youth Biennale, an international exhibition of contemporary art that will feature works by authors of the younger generation, will be held for the first time this year under the title Common Language. The exhibition does not speak on behalf of the individual, but communicates through a common signifier "we" and establishes a body that speaks a common language. Such language is a constellation of symbols, hashtags, neologisms, emojis, but not only that. It is the communication system of the emerging revolutionary collective. It is a meeting place of a new generation that communicates in a different way, somewhat encrypted for the previous ones, through new rules, new challenges, new tendencies.

The curators of the exhibition, Senka Latinović, Teodora Jeremić and Jovana Trifuljesko (photo below), establish an overlap and find a system in which different but equal curatorial concepts are formed, reflecting the Youth Biennale as a place that meets the common needs of all involved in its creation. performing works of art, but also building discourse and distributing knowledge. 

Curatorial workshops and educational programs were organized within the entire event in cooperation with ULUS members and other cultural and artistic actors of the local contemporary scene.

End date: 05th September 2021

Locations: Cvijeta Zuzorić Art Pavilion, ULUS Gallery, Roman Well, Military Bunker, Large Gunpowder Warehouse (Barutana), Amam (Planetarium), Clock Tower, Nebojša Tower, KC Footnote, KC Magacin

Visit and find out more:

ulus.rs

The 58th October Salon - Belgrade Biennale has opened! "Dreamers" is an exhibition that brings together 64 international artists from all over the world.

Most of them have never exhibited in Belgrade or the Balkans before!

The choice of curators to invite the younger, ie the middle generation of artists was certainly completed by the works of already established names on the world stage such as Pierre Uig, Henri Sale, Jeremy Deler, Cao Fei, Mark Leki, which were relevant to curators for their research on this topic.

The exhibition features authors working in a wide range of media: video, performance, spatial installations, painting, sculptures - exploring different topics from those related to policies related to culture and identity, alienation and psychological aspects of human experience.

The exhibition of works, to single out some of them, Claudia Conte, Wong Ping, John Raffman, David Duar, Margarit Imo, Clara Hoznedlove, in the Museum of the City of Belgrade in Resavska transform the dimensions of space and draws visitors into a universe that is both foreign and famous.

The works of Sonja Radaković and Sanja Ćopić were specially performed during the opening weekend, and their traces can only be guessed at in the installation; while the work of Alex da Corte "Blue Moon" can be reported, viewed and participate in the living room or bedroom through a television screen and RTS3 channel (every evening from 20.55).

The 58th October Salon will be accompanied by a rich program - public guided tours, thematic guided tours, workshops for children and youth, talk with artists, and for fans of outdoor activities, every other weekend will be organized "October picnic" in the park in front of the Museum of Yugoslavia.

The following is a list of artists and artistic groups participating in the 58th October Salon - Belgrade Biennale:

Beginning date: 25.06.2021.
End date: 22.08.2021.
Locations: Cultural Center Hall, Belgrade Cultural Center, Museum of the City of Belgrade, Museum of Yugoslavia

Found out more on the official October Salon website:
http://www.oktobarskisalon.org/en/

October Salon Contact:
Cultural Center of Belgrade, Knez Mihailova 6/I, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

This year's October salon program:
http://www.oktobarskisalon.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/program_en-scaled.jpgy

https://www.biennialfoundation.org/