Solo exhibition "Desert Land" by internationally renowned Montenegrin sculptor Ivan Radovanović will be opened on Thursday, September 18th at 19 pm, in the Kolektor (former Titex) space in Podgorica. The exhibition curator is Milica Bezmarević.
Ivana Radovanović's works explore the boundaries of contemporary sculpture: from the stable, closed object of the modernist tradition to an ephemeral, processual form in which material, space and time equally participate in shaping meaning. Through the processes of decomposition and transformation of materials such as jute, soil, sugar and terracotta, the artist views sculpture as an event and testimony to transience, rather than as a permanent form.
Bezmarević emphasizes that Radovanović continues the tradition of post-minimalism and the expanded field of sculpture, but deepens it by focusing on the ephemerality of materials and their dependence on the environment. Installations such as “Composition” and the central work “Desert Land”, after which the exhibition is named, show how materials, through decay and transformation, become active carriers of meaning, memory and remembrance. “Sculpture here does not appear as a closed object of contemplation, but as a space for confronting entropy, transience and fragility of the world,” emphasizes the curator.
Ivana Radovanović (Podgorica, 1983) graduated and received her MA in sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Montenegro in Cetinje, and her PhD from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. She is a recipient of a Fulbright scholarship for postdoctoral research in New York and the first artist from the region to participate in the Silvermine Fulbright Art Residency program in the USA. She represented Montenegro at the 57th Venice Biennale and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Grand Prix at the Montenegrin Art Salon “13. novembar” and an honorary mention from the International Sculpture Center of the USA.
The exhibition "Village" will be open to visitors at Kolektor until September 29th.
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