The annual exhibition of students in the final years of undergraduate and master studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts (FLU) in Cetinje was opened in Gallery 42 in Cetinje, as well as in the premises of FLU. The exhibition is called "We can't get rid of art", and it was organized after a three-year break, which has not happened since the establishment of the Faculty.
A tradition as old as FLU was interrupted by the process of moving to a new building, but also by the corona virus pandemic, is the explanation of FLU on the website of the University of Montenegro. However, this year's exhibition has its own advantage.
"This year, the exhibition is being held for the first time in the new building of the Faculty, so that all studios of basic and master studies will have their own exhibitions and will be open to the public. This will provide an immediate insight into the academic offer and work program of all study programs and modules studied at the faculty," the announcement states.
This year's exhibition is accompanied by a particularly comprehensive catalog that brings together all the works and statements of graduate students, in which art historian Dr. Svetlana Racanović in his text he sublimates the setting by emphasizing that "being an artist" is a lifelong calling and process and is not a skill or theory that can be mastered once and for all.
"True artistic education, emancipation and self-realization knows no boundaries or sets time limits between the period of youthful acquisition of artistic knowledge and skills and the more mature professionalization of one's work. True artistry, becoming an artist and being an artist is a constant, connected and self-producing life process that acquires resistance to fixed positions and the illusion of security, to pettiness and calculations, to 'lines of least resistance' and 'taking shortcuts', to grandiose ambitions, to harmful conformism, but also the logic of sacrifice, to phallic interest associations and trading in one's own artistic ideas and personal integrity," Racanović emphasized.
She adds that "true artistry does not require massive artistic mobilizations and revolutionary actions", but neither do advertising campaigns and launching into the "world of the rich and famous".
"At the beginning and at the end, in times of intensifying crises and in times of their relaxation, at all times, true artistry means nurturing your sensitivity, openness to feel, understand and accept, as equally important, everything that surrounds us, that hurts and excites us , which unsettles us and gives us peace, which establishes our life horizon. We should talk about that world and life in a living artistic language, the language of today. This is how the zone of one's own pleasure, one's own freedom and found meaning is fenced off, cultivated and defended, and that zone is our only possession in times of great alienation", said Racanović.
The ceremonial opening of the exhibition was also an opportunity to present awards to distinguished students for the results achieved in the previous academic year. The sponsors of the awards are: University of Montenegro, Ministry of Culture and Media, National Museum and "Ćano Koprivica" foundation.
The award "Jovana Karadžić - Anita Bućin" for the best study (drawing), in the first year, went to her Mark Kilibardi, and the award for "Free Drawing" Monika Vujisic. The best undergraduate students are: from the study program (SP) for Graphic Design Jasmina Šuntic, at SP Painting Iuliana Bulatova, at Vajarstva Anisa Djokic. From the Master's study, they were awarded at SP Graphic Design Ana Mitrović, at SP Sculpture Nikola Balević, at SP Painting Dusan Djukic, and the award for the best master's student at SP Painting - Intermediate Art Module, went to her Branka Kovačević, and at SP Painting - the Graphics module Željki Pestorić.
Redemption prizes were earned by master's students. The award of the University of Montenegro went to a master's student Jelena Ilicković Tomić, The "Perspektive" redemption award awarded by the Ministry of Culture and Media of Montenegro has gone to Jasmini Lucević, and the redemption prize of the "Ćano Koprivica" Foundation Stefan Delic.
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