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26.08.2012.

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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26.08.2012.

AN ARTIST – A VICTIM OR A PROVOCATEUR?

Slaven Tolj: Srđ je naš (Srđ is Ours), Galerija P74, Ljubljana, June 2 – 29, 2012.

By: Žana Vukičević

The fight against corruption, the dissatisfaction with the processes of privatization, the burgeoning of capitalism, as well as the resistance against drastic social stratification as their direct and inevitable consequence are commonplace in a modern democratic society. The phenomena caused by the existence of such negative factors are present and appear almost on a daily basis in the form of public protests, demonstrations, petitions, and similar kinds of civil actions. Nonetheless, almost as a rule, all attempts at rebellion of this kind take place on the principle of the unbalance of forces between the people wanting change and thus standing up together and the rigid structures comprising of financial and political power figures whose influence in decision-making by far surpasses the local context of a certain problem.

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26.08.2012.

WITHOUT RED

Šejla Kamerić: 1395 Days Without Red, Legat Gallery owned by Milica Zorić and Rodoljub Čolaković, Belgrade, 23th May -24th June 2012

By: Vladimir Bjeličić

Twenty years after the siege of the city and as part of Sarajevo Days Festival, Milica Zorić’s and Rodoljub Čolaković’s Legat Gallery presented an independent exhibition by Bosnian artist Šejla Kamerić ’’1395 Days Without Red’’. The title refers to the number of days the Bosnian capital was under siege, when people were advised not to wear anything red, because the snipers could immediately spot them. Šejla Kamerić is a well-known artist throughout the region, but this is her first independent exhibition in Belgrade. Locally, she has been known only by her cooperation with Uroš Đurić. Šejla Kamerić has been creating art for over a decade and is part of the regional contemporary art scene thanks to her authentic socially engaged work. She uses different media (video, photography, installations) to present traumas of war as the main topic, i.e. to present her personal experience of the military conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990’s, as well as various other processes that create or erase national identity. Her work was created during several periods, some of them even a decade ago, which makes this exhibition a presentation of her overall work.

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