Everything that is current, contemporary, high-quality, but also generationally different and diverse from contemporary Croatian art, is displayed in the Petrović Castle in Kruševac as part of the "Contemporary Istrian Art" exhibition, which opened the night before yesterday and can be viewed until September 27. This event, which was organized in cooperation with the Center for Contemporary Art (CSU) of Montenegro and the Museum of Contemporary Art Istria, also announces the continuation of cooperation between the two institutions through the presentation of Montenegrin creativity in Croatia.
"First of all, I would like to thank CSU Director Nenad Šoškić for his invitation after the talks in Pula last year where he came and where we agreed on the start of this wonderful collaboration which, apart from this exhibition, will very soon realize an exhibition of Montenegrin art in Croatia, so no only in Pula, but she will also visit Zagreb, Split, Varaždin and Rijeka... Cooperation is open, cooperation has begun, we have a number of common topics and similar stories and we have a beautiful common will to realize everything together in the best possible way". Mladen Lučić Luc, curator of the exhibition and museum advisor of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Istria, said at the opening.
Šoškić also expressed his satisfaction with the cooperation, stressing that this is "just the beginning".
"We are honored to have a cross-section of Istrian contemporary art at CSUCG by 19 Croatian artists with exceptional artistic poetics. This exhibition is the result of a wonderful collaboration, and this is only the beginning, but a very good beginning, because this is the largest presentation of Croatian contemporary art in Montenegro in the last 30 years. I hope that the audience will really enjoy this exceptional exhibition", said Šoškić.
Lučić confirmed that this presentation of Croatian art in Montenegro, after several decades, is very important, but that the exhibition does not have a specific conceptual concept, but has chosen those works and artists that best confirm the richness of the Croatian contemporary art scene.
"The setting does not have a solid conceptual concept. Since this is the first presentation after thirty years in Montenegro, of what is happening in Croatian contemporary art, I wanted to introduce the Podgorica audience to all vocations, to all poetics, to all that Istrian contemporary art is rich in, and of course it shows from this exhibition", said Lučić and explained the exhibition of works that make up the exhibition:
"The only and fundamental manager of the selection and approach was the quality of the works. All artistic vocations of contemporary provenance are represented, and almost all media in which our artists express themselves today are also represented. Also, you can see some stories that could be connected with the tradition of Istria... It is a panoramic cross-section, it is about everything that is current, contemporary and high-quality, and even generationally different, because it is about artists who in the late XNUMXs and early XNUMXs, they paved new paths for contemporary art, to their younger followers today, and they certainly justified that one eclectic pluralism that is based on the very poetics and default of postmodernism, which itself does not tolerate styles, concepts, and ideas," said Lučić. .
About 60 works by 19 artists will be presented at the exhibition, and among the artists represented are: Tea Bičić, Đanino Božić, Tomislav Brajnović, Đani Celija, Matija Debeljuh, Alen Floričić, Iva Fonović, Aleksandar Garbin, Fulvio Juričić, Zdravko Milić, Oleg Morović , Robert Pauletta, Davor Sanvincenti, Dragana Sapanjoš, Sofija Silvia, Silvo Šarić, Šikuti Machine, Goran Škofić and Bojan Šumonja.
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