Šćepanović's world of beauty in Herceg Novi

The exhibition of the sculptor Miodrag Šćepanović will be opened tonight at 20.30 pm in the gallery Josip Bepo Benković in Herceg Novi.

Šćepanović sees and experiences nature in the Emersonian sense as a 'world of beauty'. He finds inspiration for his works in the elementary forms of nature. Intimacy with the nature of his native region significantly influenced the artist's sensibility. Stone for sculptures Šćepanović finds in the environment in which he grew up and in which he still creates today. In the bed of the river Svinjača near Kolašin, the artist searches for, finds and chooses the stone that suits him in terms of shape and color for the embodiment, for the effectiveness of his sculptural idea", wrote the painter Dimitrije Popović on the occasion of Šćepanović's exhibition in the "Mimara" museum in Zagreb.

Popović assessed that "in today's pluralistic art scene, where the term sculpture implies a wide range of expressions, from ready-mades, through minimal art, hyperrealism to body art in which the human body can be treated as a 'living sculpture', Miodrag Šćepanović belongs to those contemporary sculptors who restore the original value of the sculpture, when the feeling and thoughts of the artist expressed in natural material are combined into a single unique art form".

Šćepanović finished sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in the class of professor Miša Popović in 1983. He has been a member of ULUCG since 1990 and the "Autumn Salon" in Paris since 2008. He is the winner of a large number of domestic and foreign awards, among which: the first prize "Paul Belmondo" for sculpture at the Autumn Salon in Paris in 2006, the "Michel Dimon" award for sculpture at the Salon of French Artists in Paris in 2012, as well as the bronze medal at the Salon of French artists of the Grand Palais in Paris in 2014.