The exhibition "Beauty of Stone" by the famous Montenegrin sculptor Miodrag Šćepanović, organized by the National Community of Montenegrins of Croatia and the Society of Montenegrins and Friends of Montenegro "Montenegro" Zagreb, was opened in the Mimar Museum in Zagreb in the presence of a large number of art lovers.
At the opening of the exhibition, which was organized as part of the Days of Montenegrin Culture 2016 program - Montenegrin artists, the manager of the Mimara Museum, M.Sc., spoke. sc. Lada Ratković-Bukovčan, academic painter Dimitrije Popović, art critic Iva Köbler and Danilo Ivezić, president of the National Community of Croatian Montenegrins.
Dimitrije Popović, who also wrote the introductory text for the catalog that accompanies the exhibition, said that Šćepanović restores the original value of sculptural art with his works, directly processing the stone he finds in the climate in which he creates. As specific features of his sculpture, Popović emphasized the color and polished stone and the combination of traditional expression and contemporary identity.
Miodrag Šćepanović graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture, in the class of prof. Miša Popović in 1983 in Belgrade. He is a member of ULUCG and the Association "Jesenji Salon" Paris. He exhibited independently more than twenty times as well as at numerous collective exhibitions in the country and abroad. He won the award of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1983, and the "Lubarda, Stijović, Milunović" and ULUCG awards in 2003, as well as the first prize for the sculpture "Pol Belmondo" at the Autumn Salon in Paris in 2006, the "Michel Dimon" award for the sculpture Salon of French Artists. Grand Pale” Paris 2012 and bronze medals at the same salon in 2014.
The exhibition in the Mimara Museum will be open until October 23.
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