Betreff: Sequences at the renovated building of the Museum of
Contemporary Art Belgrade
Datum: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 06:01:06 -0400
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Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Serbia
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Sequences
Art of Yugoslavia and Serbia
from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Serbia
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11000 Belgrade
Serbia
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After ten years of being closed to the public, the restored building of
the Museum will be opened on October 20 at 10am with the exhibition
Sequences. Art of Yugoslavia and Serbia from the collection of the
Museum of Contemporary Art. The exhibition encompasses the period from
the beginning of the 20th century to the present, showcasing art created
in Yugoslavia and Serbia today. Sequences is a historical exhibition
that includes contemporary art, with the primary aim of reaffirming
MoCAB’s collection and offering a new framework by which to become
acquainted with and understand the art made on these territories. The
author of the exhibition concept is Dejan Sretenović and curators of the
exhibition are Mišela Blanuša, Zoran Erić and Dejan Sretenović.
The building of the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade was built in the
period from 1960 to 1965 and was opened to the public on October 20,
1965. The architects Ivan Antić and Ivanka Raspopović won the most
prestigious Yugoslav award for architecture that year and the building
remains one of the landmarks of high modernist architecture of socialist
Yugoslavia.
The building was closed in 2007 for reconstruction which has run
intermittently over a period of ten years. The original concept and
proportions of the building had to be preserved but also adjusted to new
architectural standards and safety regulations. Two main projects were
therefore vital, the lighting system and the interior design which
comprised the refurbishment of the old and deteriorating elements of the
interior; this also included the exhibition display infrastructure which
is now made from new and durable materials to meet with the highest
museological standards of today. The reconstruction included a sculpture
park surrounding the Museum building with works from the most
significant Yugoslav sculptors of the 20th century.
Sequences establishes a possible trajectory of movement through the
archipelago of 20th century art, bringing new input into the corpus of
extant knowledge and writing one version of the history of modern and
contemporary art. In keeping with existing epistemological coordinates
and analytical matrices, the exhibition brings forth a remapping,
correction and revaluation of the 20th century art history, while
reinventing some of the neglected and marginalised phenomena.
The exhibition is structured as a series of 18 sequences, freely grouped
around a chronological axis following historical shifts in the art of
Yugoslavia and Serbia for a period longer than one century. The notion
of “sequence” is taken from film terminology, where it stands for a
series of scenes, connected by the unity of time or location, forming a
distinct narrative unit. Applied here, the notion of sequence is related
to artistic currents, tendencies and movements, bound by the unity of
time and space, i.e. poetic, linguistic and thematic relatedness.
Sequences are spatial-temporal units, based on a dialectical
relationship between museum representation as a material practice of
arranging objects in space, and art historical narrativisation as a
practice of writing which arranges these objects in historical time.
The exhibition is intended for the widest audience and consequently is
didactically oriented, but the conception behind it is based on working
concepts, methods and models active in contemporary history and the
theory of art.
By presenting art from its collection, the Museum of Contemporary Art
showcases also its own history, reminding us of the leading role it had
in the operationalisation, representation and narrativisation of the
Yugoslav art space in the socialist Yugoslavia, and also of the role it
performs in Serbia today in bringing together artistic heritage and
contemporary art.
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