The exhibition of the sculptor Miodrag Šćepanović, this year's winner of the Thirteenth of July Award, was opened in the Local Museum of Kolašin. "From ... to..." is the name under which the artist exhibits his collections "Safety", "Torso of a woman", "Head of a woman", "In arms", "In the lap", "Kiss", "Love" , "Enthusiasm", "Expectation", "Respite" ...in the hometown..
"Somehow I was getting bored with the previous catalogs with the titles beauty, stone...sometimes strange assemblies. When they told me now that the catalog should be given a title, I thought about it and said: From...to...from Kolašin to Paris, from stone to sculpture, from work on some useful objects to prizes in Paris and the 13th of July prize. ..“- said the sculptor at the opening of the exhibition, in front of the never-fuller exhibition space of the Native Museum.
Draginja Kujović, art historian and curator of the Zavičaj museum, spoke about the exhibition, which was organized by the JU Center for Culture, admitting that she was impressed by the technical perfection and Zantian perfection of Šćepanović's sculptures. grinding machine, idea, sensibility...."
Šćepanović doesn't cast, he doesn't carve, he doesn't model, he grinds. He defines the shape of the stone he found in the river next to his outdoor studio with a grinder. From the selected stone, he subconsciously creates an image of what the sculotute wants to look like, and while he works with the grinder, it floats in front of his eyes. With a grinder, he removes part by part of the stone and thus listens to the stone and creates its shape. He removes and repels the stone, in order to later iron and polish it, Kujovićka pointed out.
She pointed out that Šćepanović's stone symbolizes the experience of something eternal that a person can have when he feels immortal and irrevocable. The energy emitted by the sculptures, the art historian said, attracts the viewer and awakens in him the desire to establish contact with it by touch in the exhibition space.
This makes this sculpture unique and special on the contemporary global art scene and represents an exceptional phenomenon in the relationship between observer - work of art - artist. All of this resulted in the world bowing before the sculpture "Security" under the roof of the famous Gran Palais building, at the Autumn Salon in 2006. ". The prize of the Autumn Salon, an institution that has lasted for more than a hundred years, entered the name of the sculptor Miodrag Šćepanović in the annals of the world history of fine arts. His name was found next to the greats of Montenegrin fine arts such as Milo Milunović, Petar Lubarda and Risto Stijović, who their paintings and sculptures brought awards from the world's largest art fairs. "
Opening the exhibition, Željka Vuksanović, President of the Municipality, said that "in these times when his majesty profit wins over art, we should extend our hands to art and show it respect. "
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