The publication titled "Space, Form, Touch" is a catalogue accompanying the exhibition of the same name held at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska adapted for the blind and visually impaired. Meeting the standards of contemporary museology and professional challenges, MSURS succeeded in staging this exhibition, whose organisation proved to be one of its most demanding projects to date.
The same principles of social inclusion underpin both the concept of the exhibition and the catalogue, which contains texts in braille and whose design makes this unique publication accessible to the blind and visually impaired. The catalogue contains a comprehensive overview, a new expert interpretation and a revaluation of the oeuvre of the art group "Space – Form", which introduced abstraction into Bosnian-Herzegovinian art in the 1970’s.
On behalf of the Austrian Embassy, which supported the publication of the catalogue, H. E. Mr Martin Pammer, ambassador of the Republic of Austria to Bosnia and Herzegovina, spoke at the promotion, along with Dr.Sc. Sarita Vujković, director of MSURS, Jovica Radanović, typhlologist and graphologist working at the Special Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired of the Republic of Srpska, and Žana Vukičević, curator at MSURS.
The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska is a project partner in the Cultural Year Austria – Bosnia and Herzegovina 2016 organised by the the Austrian Embassy to Bosnia and Herzegovina under the slogan "Let’s get to know each other better", which stresses the multiple ties between B&H and Austria. The promotion of the catalogue "Space, Form, Touch" is the first in a series of cultural events to be held in 2016 under this project.
