*OPEN CALL* *"IT **NEVER** HAPPENED!"*
*Department of expanded media* ASSOCIATION OF FINE ARTISTS OF SERBIA (ULUS), *announces an open call for submission of artworks for the exhibition *dedicated to the centenary of the publication of the *avant-garde magazine Zenit* https://monoskop.org/Zenit https://www.avantgarde-museum.com/en/museum/collection/authorszenit~pe4393/ *Zenit: international magazine for art and culture* *Zenit is the most significant avant-garde magazine in the territory of former Yugoslavia and one of the most significant within the context of European avant-garde. By its programme, Zenit is basically international: it gravitated to the creation of one completely new and united Europe, disregarding the races, nationalities, languages, ideas or ideologies. In many ideas, it was an attempt of a new Babylon palace building in spite of mixed nations. Zenitism is the avant-garde movement born around Zenit magazine. The Zenitism Manifesto was published in June 1921 and was proclaiming humanism аnd anti-war ideas. * The *Zenit* collection belongs to special collections of National library of Serbia, as a part of the Ljubomir Micić’s legacy *The exibition will be realized in the Art Pavilion "Cvijeta Zuzorić" ,Mali Kalemegdan 1 in Belgrade, Serbia in the period from* *March 18 to April 8, 2021.* *Deadline for applications is 10th of March 2021.* *Word from organizers*: *In the year 2021 - one century since the publication of the first issue of the magazine ZENIT revue for modern art / February 1921 / edited by avant-garde writer and critic* Ljubomir Micić, *exhibition will be starting point for contemporary critical and artistic observation of the fate of avant-garde movements and their impact on society, their internal tensions-contradictions as well as the social reception that tend to leave often such a figures and movements quite ahead of their own time - at the very margins, and even to- historical oblivion.* *The avant-garde never permeated society as a whole, but its significance was subsequently often valued as exceptional and revolutionary.* *Therefore, the title of the exhibition contains a reflection not only related to the historical fact of avant-garde phenomena, but also echoes as well towards the processes of emancipation that they (not) initiated in the wider society.* *More INFO at: * https://ulus.rs/blog/open-call-it-never-happened/?lang=en With best regards, Organizing committee
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