Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade
 Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade |
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| place | Belgrade |
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| architect | Ivan Antić , Ivanka Raspopović |
| opening | October 20, 1965 |
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Slobodan Nekarada (Deputy Director)
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The Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade collects, preserves, analyzes and exhibits Yugoslav and Serbian art from 1900 to the present day.
history
Modern gallery
The Museum of Contemporary Art started its work in 1958, when, with the act of the Culture Council of the Belgrade City People's Committee, the decision was made to establish a Modern Gallery. The institution's mission was to follow the development of Yugoslav and Serbian modern and contemporary art in the 20th century. The founder and first director of the Modern Gallery, and later the Museum of Contemporary Art, which began work in 1959, was Miodrag B. Protić , a painter, theorist and art critic. In the same year, the Executive Council of the Republic of Serbia decided that for the purposes of the Modern Gallery, a building that complies with modern museum science principles. For this they decided on the location in New Belgrade at the mouth of the Sava River , opposite the Belgrade Fortress . At the same time, the competition for design planning was announced. The competition ended in 1960 and the selected authors were the architect Ivan Antić (1923–2006) and the architect Ivanka Raspopović (1930–2015). The building of the Museum of Contemporary Art was built from 1960 to 1965. It was declared a cultural asset and cultural monument in 1987.
architecture
The new building of the Museum of Contemporary Art is one of the most important achievements of post-war Yugoslav architecture and an important example of museum buildings in the former Yugoslavia . The architecture of the museum testifies to the interweaving of various influences, artistic and cultural tendencies and social and economic forces. It was conceived as a building with a unique spatial composition that forms a unique exhibition space without internal partition walls, divided into several levels. Inside, the cascading mezzanine and intermediate levels make an original contribution to the spatial solution. This enabled the visitor to move around the room more easily. Spaces with different ceiling heights were created and the interior was further enriched by successive panoramic views of the surroundings. The exterior of the building is dominated by the shape of the beveled two-story six cubes with the same height angle of the roof. The cubes are rotated at an angle of 45 degrees with respect to the rectangular floor. This rotation and diagonal cut of the cube tips created a specific, crystal-shaped impression. Sufficient daylight comes into the exhibition space through the glazing of the sloping roof surfaces. The facade of the lower parallelepiped is mostly transparent, while the walls of the cube are mostly filled in with a facade of white Venčac marble. This largely resulted in the dematerialization of the lower floors and a general impression of the lightness of the building.
The building of the Museum of Contemporary Art with its excellent design qualities, unique shape, the satisfaction of functional requirements and qualitative adaptation to the natural environment are among the classic works of Serbian architecture in general. Another important element to understand its architectural value is the fact that this is the first purpose-built museum building in Belgrade . The authors of the museum building were honored with the October City of Belgrade Award for Architecture in 1965. The architect Ivan Antić also won the Sedmojulska (Seventh of July) Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1969 and the major SAS Architectural Award in 1984, the explanation of which particularly emphasized the value of the design of the Museum of Contemporary Art. This work enabled the author to become a member of SANU in 1976.
Contemporary Art Museum
In 1965, the Council of the Modern Gallery adopted the new name Museum for Contemporary Art, which opened on October 20th that same year. Its initiator and founder Miodrag B. Protić was appointed director.
The basic concept and physiognomy of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade was designed by Miodrag B. Protić. For this reason he spent time in Paris from 1953 to 1954 and 1957, but his study visit to New York in 1963 was particularly important , where he studied in detail the organization, structure and installation of the Museum of Modern Art, of which Alfred Hamilton Barr was director , a writer and professor, the founder of modern museum science. Based on this knowledge and his experience, Protić of the Belgrade Museum of Contemporary Art designed a collection of paintings, sculptures, graphics and drawings and the department for artistic documentation. A conservation and restoration studio was also established.
Since 1974 the museum has had a visual culture and information center (as part of the educational program), and after 2001 a design and multimedia department and a children's club were established.
Collections
- Painting collection from 1900 to 1945
- Painting collection after 1945
- Sculpture collection
- Collection of graphics and drawings
- Collection of new artistic media (photography, film, video, etc.)
Galleries and Legacies
The following are separate institutions:
- Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art
- Petra Dobrovića Gallery
- Gallery legacy from Milica Zorić and Rodoljib Čolaković
- Gallery Patar Lubarda (since 1980)
And within the museum are “Foundation Dr. Nadežde and Dr. Lazar Ristić "," Legacy Marko, Šiva and Mara Ristić "," Legacy Rastislava Tabaković "," Legacy Ana Čolak Antić "," Legacy Zlata and Vasko Pragelja "," Legacy Vane Živadinović Bor "," Legacy Miodrag B. Protić ", “Legacy of Ksenija Divjak”, “Legacy of Milan Dedinac and Ramila Bunuševac-Dedinac”, “Legacy of Ksenija Ilijević”.
activities
Exhibitions
The Museum of Contemporary Art has carried out numerous studies and retrospective exhibitions of Serbian and Yugoslav artists. His main activities were in the edition of "Yugoslav Art of the Twentieth Century":
- 1967 Third decade - constructive painting
- 1969 Surrealism and Social Art 1929–1950
- 1971 Fourth Decade - Expressionism of Color and Poetic Realism 1930–1940
- 1972 Serbian architecture 1900–1970
- 1973 Beginnings of modern Yugoslav painting 1900–1920
- 1975 Yugoslav sculpture 1870–1950
- 1978 Yugoslav graphics 1900–1950
- 1980 Yugoslav painting of the sixth decade
- 1985–1986 Yugoslav graphics 1950–1980
The museum has a major retrospective of the Serbian and Yugoslav artists organized, among which are: Sava Šumanović , Ivan Tabaković , Petar Lubarda , Nadežda Petrović , Marko Celebonovic , Krsto Hegedušić , Ljubo Ivancic , Gabrijel Stupica , Marijo Pregelj , Jovan Bjelić , Kosta Hakman , Nedeljko Gvozdenović , Petar Dobrović , Natalija Cvetković , Peđa Milosavljević , Milena Pavlović-Barili , Zora Petrović , Milan Konjović , Lazar Vozarevic , Leonid Šejka , Stojan Ćelić , Olga Jančić , Petar Omčikus , Filo Filipović , Mladen Srbinović , Olga Jevrić , Ksenija Divjak , Miodrag B. Protić , Vane Živadinović Bor , Predrag Peđa Nešković , Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan , Kosara Bokšan , Bora Iljovski , Neša Paripović , Raša Todosijević , Dušan Otašević and others.
As part of international cooperation, numerous exhibitions of European and world-famous artists and artist groups have been organized, such as: Pablo Picasso , Joan Miro , Marcel Duchamp , Raoul Dufy , František Kupka , Paul Klee , Tàpies , Hans Hartung , Robert Smithson , Jan Dibec , Barry Flanagan , Robert Mapplethorpe , Yves Klein , Emil Nolde , Attersee, "Dada", Czech Cubism, Belgian Surrealism, German Expressionism, "Die Brücke", "Blaue Reiter", "Bauhaus", "Fluxus", "CoBrA", "Gutai" , English Pop Art, New American Art, Young British Artists, etc.
The museum also organized two international fine arts exhibitions in 1977 and 1980.
Publishing work
The museum's first contribution in the field of publishing work dates back to 1961, when the exhibition catalog by artist Nedeljko Gvozdenović was published in the Salon. Most important information about his training and exhibitions of the artist, as well as his bibliography, were also published there. These catalogs were intended as small monographs by the artists and to motivate other galleries to achieve a certain professional standard for catalogs. Although it can be said that the salon's catalogs pioneered modern and professional work, the fact is that the move to the new museum building marked a milestone in publishing. With the premises for the library, documentation, specialist library and photo department, the publishing work has received new, more complex and important tasks and a work plan. The museum organized a total of 1150 exhibitions between 1965 and 2014. Of these, 562 exhibitions took place in the museum's salon. Further exhibitions were organized in: Museum Building 316, Petar Dobrović Gallery 10, Legacy Gallery Milica Zorić and Rodoljub Čolaković 67 and the rest in other premises at home and abroad. The museum is the editor of a total of 782 publications and the rest of the publications have largely been taken over.
In the publishing industry, in addition to the catalogs that were published on the occasion of the major exhibitions, another important work is the three-volume publication “Ideas of Serbian Art Criticism and Theory 1900-1950” from 1980–1981.
The following books were published in the edition of “Serbian Critics”:
- Miodrag B. Protić (interview and bibliography), 1986
- Momčilo Stevanović (studies, experiments, reviews), 1988
- Lazar Trifunović I – II (studies, experiments, reviews), 1990
- Rastko Petrović (essays, reviews), 1995
In 1965 the monograph “Museum of Contemporary Art” became the museum guide in 1983 and 2005 as well.
literature
- Alfirević, Đorđe. Expressionism in Serbian Architecture . Belgrade: Orionart, 2016
- Documents from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
- 1965 Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum Guide, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
- 2005 Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum Guide, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Лексикон српских архитеката . Archived from the original on March 13, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 26, 2017.
- ↑ Иван Антић . Retrieved January 26, 2017.
- ↑ Загонетна дама наше модерне . Retrieved January 26, 2017.
- ↑ Иванка Распоповић . Retrieved January 26, 2017.
- ↑ Завод за заштиту споменика културе града Београда: Часопис Наслеђе, Милан Попадић . Retrieved January 26, 2017.
- ↑ Завод за заштиту споменика културе града Београда, досије споменика културе Музеј савремене савремене савремене.
- ↑ Завод за заштиту споменика културе града Београда: Каталог непокретних културних добара . Retrieved January 26, 2017.
- ↑ Српска академија наука и уметности . Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
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