18.01.2017.
Exhibition of Selection from the Artistic Collection of the Central Military Club opens
The exhibition from the rich Artistic Collection of the Central Military Club has been opened today in the Great Gallery. This is an exhibition of around thirty works of the most prominent Yugoslav artists such as Sava Sumanovic, Petar Lubarda, Milo Milunovic, Branko Miljus, Kosta Hakman, Nandor Glid, Bogomil Karlavaris, Angelina Gatalica, Oto Logo.
The special curiosity of this exhibition is that the audience will have a chance to see four paintings of Vlaho Bukovac, Svetislav Strala, Lazar Licenoski and Marko Celebonovic, which have not been exhibited so far.
Opening the exhibition, Director of the National Museum, Bojana Boric-Breskovic, MA, put a special emphasis on the fruitful collaboration of the institution she manages and the Odbrana Media Centre mentioning on that occasion the exhibitions organized last year.
“It is important to highlight professional engagement of some curators of the National Museum in arrangement of the Artistic Collection of the Central Military Club, whose unique segment since this day we have a chance to enjoy in”, Director of the National Museum stressed and announced that, on the occasion of marking the Statehood Day of the Republic of Serbia, the National Museum and the Odbrana Media Centre will once again together present the project of selected works of sculptors who belong to the corps of contemporary Serbian sculpture.
Director of the Odbrana Media Centre, Colonel Stevica Karapandzin has expressed special contentment with the fact that the exhibition season in the Great Gallery has been opened with this exhibition, which was systematically formed in 1953, when the Gallery was established.
“The Central Military Club, former Veterans’ Club, as the institution of special significance, has recently taken reference place on the cultural map of Serbia with its exhibitions and accompanying programmes and gives a substantial incentive for art development, its creation and study”, Colonel Karapandzin emphasized.
Moreover, he announced that devotees of art can soon expect publishing of the monograph about the Artistic Collection of the Central Military Club, which will be presented during the year as the first monograph of selected works of the Artistic Collection of this institution with museum data processing made by the team of eminent art historians led by Nikola Kusovac.
Talking about the importance of the Artistic Collection of the Central Military Club, the curator of the National Museum in Belgrade Petar Petrovic stressed that it was shown in the fact that it enables the public to meet again with the artists who are not at the top of our fine arts, but they are the significant part of the mosaic of Serbian and Yugoslav art scene.
Today the Artistic Collection of the Central Military Club consists of more than 1,500 objects.
The wealth holding has created possibilities to conduct the following exhibitions in the past period: “Poetics and Fate of the 20th Century”, “Mirroring the Times”, “Reading the Line” and “Confession of Yugoslav Modernism”.
The exhibition will be open until 9th February 2017.
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