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19.12.2011.

TIME TO GET SERIOUS?

52nd October Salon | Time we met each other

October 20 – December 4, 2011, Museum of Yugoslavian History, Belgrade

By Ana Bogdanović

The October Salon is certainly one of the most important events of a scarcely populated exhhibition season for contemporary art in Belgrade and Serbia. The concept came about several years ago as an opportunity to present international artistic tendencies, whose topical limitations and selection of artwork are determined by a guest curator who is in turn delegated by the October Salon Council. The event marks a rare possibility for the domestic audience to get introduced to the latest contemporary output on the art scene, both locally and globally. Therefore, the organisers, as well as the curators, have big responsibility to carefully and professionally fulfill their obligations to the public and set up an exhibition that would allow the audience to interact, explore and contemplate the artistic interpretations of various contemporary aspects.

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30.11.2011.

ON AUDIENCE MANIPULATION THROUGH EVERYDAY IMAGES

Lecture: Zoran Todorović’s Moving Images, Filmforum, Student’s Culture Centre (SKC), Belgrade, October 18, 2011

By: Ana Bogdanović

The relationship between contemporary art and its audience, if we exclude experts and a small circle of true connoisseurs, is a problematic field of interaction which often creates great misunderstandings. On the one hand, art knows that pursuing the self-referential path means abandoning various levels of accessibility regarding its broader audience. On the other hand, the public is often impatient, disinterested and not very keen to take on an artistic challenge without prejudice. One of the authors that addresses the audience directly, trying to bridge the gap between art and the world around us through provocation, is the Belgrade artist Zoran Todorović (1965). Presentation of his video works as part of the Student Culture Centre Filmforum programme in late October at the SKC’s Little Hall, was another opportunity to delve into the issue of the reception of Todorović’s work in his homeland. His opus is begrudgingly commented on and causes crude and negative response based on complete misunderstanding of his artistic endeavour.

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27.11.2011.

ABOUT NIKE SHOES AND INTERCULTURALISM

Aleksandar Jestrović Jamesdin: Beast from the East. Exhibition marking the occasion of the Culture Centre Belgrade Award at the 50th October Salon 2009, October 19 – November 9, 2011, Culture Centre Belgrade Gallery

By: Ana Bogdanović

A drum stick from an Iggy Pop concert next to a T-shirt with his picture painted in oil on sack canvas and a video made at an erotic entertainment centre, which is powered through an over capacitated extension cord under a portrait of a robot pet dog. Standing opposite, a kitchen shelf with object from mom’s pantry and a calendar for the year 2050 with paintings of her son’s artistic endeavours.

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