16.07.2018.

Opening of the Exhibition “Golgotha and Resurrection”

The exhibition of paintings titled “Golgotha and Resurrection” produced by Predrag Peđa Đaković was opened in the Gallery of the Central Military Club in Belgrade. These works encompass one of the most important parts of the artist’s opus dedicated to the suffering of the Serbian army throughout the history. The leitmotif of the exhibition is the tragedy as the fate and everlasting glory, and it is presented by 22 paintings starting from the Battle of Kosovo, to the Golgotha and the feats of the suffering Serbian Army in the First and Second World War, to the recent wars. The exhibition is going to be presented to the audience by the end of July.

Greeting the present, Colonel Stevica Karapandžin, Director of “Odbrana” Media Centre underlined that the sacrifice of a soldier was different from others in the greatness of the risk that the soldier was exposed to in dramatic circumstances of war.

Thanking the visitors for sharing with him that, as he called it, magnificent moment, the author Predrag Peđa Đaković reminded that the Central Military Club had been built from the contributions of the warriors, although King Aleksandar was the greatest benefactor, and that it was a holy house drenched by the blood spilled for freedom.

Radovan Kalabić opened the exhibition underlying that it was not an ordinary opening of an exhibition, since it was a cultural and identity cherishing ceremony prepared by an excellent student of the famous “Prague school of painting”.

A particular “mark” to the ceremony was given by the students of the Academy of Fine Arts and Multimedia in Belgrade, who, led by their mentor an actress and professor Biljana Đurović, accompanied by traditional chanting of Katarina Gojković and Nemanja Perkučin, performed a dramatic presentation in which they recited texts dedicated to the greatest Serbian epics and warriors from the Battle of Kosovo until the present days.