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REVIEWING THE ARTIST’S POSITION

The Dimitrije Basicevic Mangelos Award Finalist Exhibition, Remont Gallery, Belgrade, 17/06-6/07/2012

By: Bojan Krištofić

The finalist exhibition of the Dimitrije Basicevic Mangelos Award given to the best Serbian visual artist under 35 was held from June 17th to July 6th at the gallery of the Belgrade independent art association Remont. At the same time as this event was taking place in Serbia, in the Zagreb gallery Galzenica visitors could come and see the sibling exhibition of the Radoslav Putar Award finalists. Both awards have, in fact, been established in 2002 within the framework of the Young Visual Artists Awards program which, by developing a network of such awards in Central and South Eastern Europe, aims to advance the working conditions for young artists. In the countries where the YVAA awards are presented, Serbia included, the winner receives a scholarship for a three-month stay in New York and an opportunity to hold a solo exhibition in his own country. Whereas the Putar Award finalist exhibition has failed to deliver in regards of quality, the Mangelos Award finalist exhibition displayed several intriguing artistic concepts. The expert jury had a hard time selecting the winner, but in the end, this year’s Mangelos Award was given to a young artist from Novi Sad, Slobodan Stosic (b. 1989). His winning work 10 i po / 10 and a half ironizes the award itself and places Stosic alongside the ever-growing number of young artists to whom a critical exposure of the art institutions represents the focal point of their interests.

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