With the exhibition "Mijo in Spič" by the prominent Montenegrin sculptor Mijo Mijušković, which was opened the night before last in the Sutomore hotel "Korali", the Association "Novo i ljepše Sutomore" marked 25 years that the famous Montenegrin sculptor lives and works in Sutomore.
The author of the installation, art historian Anastazija Miranović, opened the exhibition of the artist, who, even at the age of 86, does not let up in his creativity. Opening the exhibition in front of a large art audience, she said that Lubarda is often called the poet of the stone sea of Montenegro, and that in this context Mijušković is "the poet of its stone sky".
"Mijo Mijušković moves us through boundless stone expanses, offering us the touch of the world, the spectrum of the rainbow, millennial duration in living, sculptural forms. Its stone clouds do not part, but firmly, securely stand exactly where they belong - in the eternal universe of nature. "Mijo reunites the crushed remains of the rock mass, unravels, exposes and synthesizes it into a new shape, legibility, new-old stone writing," said Miranović. Pointing out that Mijo carves and polishes his thoughts in stone, "not in the desire to reproduce the world, but in a steadfast effort to shape its obviousness", and that in the stone material he preserves the originality "and does not desecrate its autochthonous beauty", Anastazija Miranović thanked the president of "New and Beautiful Sutomore", Slobodanka Hrvatin, for her exceptional efforts to preserve the cultural heritage of Spič.
The famous sculptor, whose works have been presented at 1964 independent exhibitions throughout Yugoslavia, in Germany, Hungary and seven times in France, from 40 to the present day, in the quarter of a century that he has been living and creating in Sutomore, in his studio in the house in the Suvi Potok neighborhood, he has made more hundreds of sculptures in stone. Mijušković especially thanked the organizers for taking care of the cultural heritage of Spič and for not forgetting our first sculptor Marko Brežanin. At the opening, he also told how he spent 35 years creating his famous piece "Spičanka", from the moment he first saw the tree trunk that Bojana was carrying into the sea, to the moment it washed up on the beach in Sutomore, to its transfer and processing in Nikšić.
"I returned 'Spičanka' to the place where its creation actually began, in Sutomore a few months ago. I want it to pour out," said Mijušković.
Slobodanka Hrvatin indicated that the ideal place for "Spičanka" would be on the square in Sutomor, which has been waiting for renovation for years, which would then form a unique ambient unit with the revitalized Tabija fortress on Golo brdo. She added that the people of Spica are proud that Mijušković made a sculpture from stone from Tabija, for which he won the Grand Prix of the Montenegrin Art Salon "13. November" in Cetinje.
Prominent Montenegrin TV creator and publicist Pero Radović, a long-time friend of Mijušković, read excerpts from the most famous criticisms of Mijušković's works, stating that in his career he conducted a large number of interviews with painters, writers, sculptors, "and for all of them it is often said that they cannot they live without art". In the program led by Tijana Vukčević, the Bar women's chamber choir "Antivari Musica" performed under the leadership of conductor Miro Kruščić, and the "Cultural Calendar 2017" prepared by the NVU "Novo iljepše Sutomore" was also presented.
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