10.05.2016.

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Multimedia project and exhibition "Repairman for Cars and Human Souls", dedicated to Dragisa Krunic, Belgrade car mechanic, engraver, poet, gallery keeper, satirist and TV writer, were presented tonight at the Great Gallery of the Central Military Club. The authors of the project are Anita Panic and the son of Dragisa Krunic – painter Slavko Krunic.

The creator of the idea of the project is Anita Panic, TV-author, writer and a documentarian, who filmed a documentary for Belgrade Television in 1992 about an unusual man – Dragisa Krunic, called "repairman for cars and human souls". Posters, photographs, painted furniture, various archives, documentary films and original paintings by famous Serbian painters at the exhibition in the Central Military Club reconstruct the life at times of Krunic who marked a time in Belgrade with his charm and charisma of an urban hero.

At tonight's presentation of the project, participants were addressed by the Director of the Odbrana Media Centre Colonel Stevica S. Karapandzin, film director Zdravko Sotra, poet Ljubivoje Rsumovic, painter Milan Tucovic and the author of the project.

Colonel Karapandzin pointed out that Dragisa put efforts in developing each of his talents, he did not allow them to wither buried and hidden from the rest, but he diligently multiplied them to the joy of those who had inspired him.

Remembering and recounting many anecdotes with Krunic, Sotra emphasized that "this rascal was not born or lived for nothing", while Rsumovic, who discovered Dragisa's poetic talent, called him a "true cool guy from Belgrade ".

Painter Milan Tucovic noticed that the exhibition is unusual in many ways an, explaining that Krunic "connected the incompatible – the elite and the local losers, state of the art and sobering joke".

The author of the project, Anita Panic, explained to the audience why Dragisa Krunic was a "repairmen for cars and human souls".

- This is because this strange man from Pasha's hill was not only a mechanic, but also the wise man, a poet, gallerist, satirist and a film scriptwriter. It was after several decades of repairing cars that he decided to devote himself to art. He turned his car mechanic workshop into a gallery in which he organized numerous exhibitions of the most eminent local artists, said the author and let the actor in the role of the famous "master Zivota" to open the exhibition.

By his unusual way of life and sincere will to socialize, Dragisa Krunic gathered the artistic cream of the capital city, who obeyed all his creative proposals creating a period of life which was more romantic, more human and nobler compared to the present. This talented man, socialising in his auto repair workshop with artists, began to write and act. He has published three books – "Between the bread and the sky" (1975), "My customers" (1982) and "I, the prisoner of the night" (2000). He has published articles in "Jez" (Hedgehog) magazine, and in many newspapers and magazines. He wrote the screenplay for the television series "Tales from the auto repair workshop" (Belgrade TV, 1985) and the movie "The Sixth Gear" (1985) with Zdravko Sotra. With Ljubivoje Rsumovic, Rastko Zakic and Miljenko Zuborski, he was an actorof the first literary theatre "Four aces". He died in 2004 in Belgrade.

The exhibition "Repairman for Cars and Human Souls" lasts until 4 June.