10-09-2009

17-10-2009

Turkey, Istanbul
BM Suma Contemporary Art Center BANKALAR CAD. YANIKKAPI SOK. 3#2 KARAKÖY-İSTANBUL

Posted by: nilufer-suluner

Category: Exhibition

Field: Multidisciplinary art

Source http://www.bmsuma07.blogspot.com/

Belgrade experience: The October Salon
September 10th – October 17th, 2009.
www.oktobarskisalon.org


Artists: Aleksandrija Ajduković and Maja Radanović (45th October Salon), Aleksandar Rafajlović and Marko Crnobrnja (46th October Salon), Zoran Naskovski and Art Fun Club (47th October Salon), ŠKART group and Ivan Zupanc (48th October Salon), Darinka Pop-Mitić, Ana Adamović and Raša Todosijević (49th October Salon)
Curated by Svetlana Petrović & Zorana Djakovic


The Belgrade Cultural Centre will present at the Contemporary Art Centre BM SUMA, the exhibition Belgrade Open, which provides an overview of the five international October Salon exhibitions held so far. For this brief survey, we have selected works by ten Serbian artists, five of whom have received Salon awards, whose works of art corresponded the most to the theme of a particular Salon. At the same time, this representative sample includes recent works by mostly young Serbian artists under the auspices of the October Salon, which, owing to its having gone international, has stepped out of a narrowly-defined local narrative, showing that, despite all the seriousness and coming of age artistically in the course of hard times, the works of Belgrade artists are not dry and lacking in wit, but reflect all the complexity of the living nature of everyday life stories of the urban world.

What are the key words to define this selection of works that do not pertain to some general theme, for there are many of these? Could those be the authenticity of a work of art in the era of hyperproduction of educational sculptures by Marko Crnobrnja, or perhaps the global identification of life and the confusion of the current moment in the video installation of Zoran Naskoski, or maybe the intimacy and new sensitivity exuding from the handicrafts entitled My Cooks, produced by the Škart group, or possibly the bewilderment and thoughtfulness that fills one before the artistic act of Raša Todosijević contained in the Edinburgh Statement – Who profits from art and who earns from it in an honest way?, and concerns our responsibility in the shaping of a better today and tomorrow.

Believing that the October Salon has the greatest power to influence the lives of individuals, the Belgrade Cultural Centre has been opening to engaged and new forms of cultural-artistic expression and a critical social dialogue.

Awaiting this year’s 50th edition of the October Salon, Belgrade opens yet another segment of the dialogue here in Istanbul, this time with other great world exhibitions.



Organized by Belgrade Cultural Centre www.kcb.org.yu
Founder and Patron City of Belgrade

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