The exhibition “Sevdalinka and Hasanaginica” as part of the Bosniak Culture Days in Montenegro event was opened in the gallery of the Cultural Center in Bijelo Polje. The exhibition, as the program editor said, Mirsad Rastoder, brought together the works of 16 academic artists from Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, who, through different visual poetics, paid homage to Bosniak oral poetry and the celebration of two important anniversaries – 450 years since the first news about sevdalinka and 250 years since the publication of Hasanaginica. The program was opened by Mirsad Rastoder, and the exhibition was opened by the director of the Public Institution “Ratković Poetry Evenings” Kemal Musić, while the musical part of the program featured performances by Aleksandra Saška Rakonjac and a pianist Miloš Vojinović. The exhibition is organized by the Bosniak Council in Montenegro and partners, with the support of the Fund for the Protection and Exercise of Minority Rights. Exhibition review, art historian and art critic, Ljiljana Karadzic, who was prevented from attending the opening, was read by the actress Slađana Bubanja Merdović.
"The intersection of painting and music in terms of ideas and concepts is characteristic of all 16 artists participating in this extraordinary exhibition. The sumptuous fusion of subjective perspectives through abstract, associative and figurative works in the exhibition can be understood not only as a poetic response to the themes of sevdalinka and Hasanaginica, but also as an incentive to return to spiritual values and true emotions, and above all, love," wrote Ljiljana Karadžić about the exhibition. Director of the Public Institution "Ratković's Poetry Evenings" Kemal Music He said that the word "sevdalinka" cannot be translated, but that it can nevertheless be experienced. "Although sevdalinka and 'Hasanaginica' are the cultural heritage of Bosniaks, we have authors at the exhibition who are not Bosniaks, which means that true cultural and cultural values do not have a national connotation," said Musić.
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