To mark the 22^nd of April, the Day of the City of Banja Luka, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Republic of Srpska will organize the opening of the exhibition Themes and Ideas: Serbian Painting 1900-1941, in collaboration with the Gallery of Matica srpska from Novi Sad.

The permanent exhibition of twentieth century Serbian art in the Gallery of Matica srpska points to the ideas of modernity in Serbian art which had been developing throughout the first four decades of the twentieth century, as well as to their relationship with historical, political and social circumstances in which they emerged.

The Banja Luka exhibition consists of more than 60 artworks: oils on canvas, drawings, sculptures and prints, all of which are the works of artists Sava Šunanović, Petar Dobrović, Milan Konjović, Milo Milunović, Bogdan Šuput, Marko Čelebonović, Milenko Šerban, Đorđe Andrejević Kun, Ivan Tabaković, Sreten Stojanović, Jovan Bijelić, Zora Petrović, Mihailo S. Petrović, Pavle Predragović, Vaso Pomorišac, Ivan Radović, Borivoje Stevanović, Mladen Josić, Ana Marinković, Đurđe Teodorović, Milivoje Uzelac, Đorđe Jovanović, Paško Vučetić and Danica Jovanović. These works are divided into three thematic units- Village, City, People, with the intention of presenting the development of visual language and poetics through selected themes.

In the period between 1900 and 1941, Serbian painting, with its stylistic searches and progressive transformations, had consistently acknowledged the relevance of the formal and linguistic genesis of the main currents of modernism that had been visible all over the continent, but often with a certain time gap when compared to the quick progress of European modernism. Simple typology of sights and motifs can also contribute to the impression that Serbian artists do not significantly differ from the universal interests of the epoch. However, detailed layering of thematic choices, shaping of specific narrative or ideological differences by separating characteristic units, as well as the unbreakable connection between art and social circumstances, have all enabled the insight and interpretation of particularities of Serbian modernism of the first half of the twentieth century through its specific thematic structure.

The exhibition concept was designed by D.Sc. Simona Čupić, professor of Modern art at the Department of Art History of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. Curator of the exhibition is Mirjana Brmbota, who works as a curator at the Gallery of Matica srpska in Novi Sad, and the coordinator of the exhibition in Banja Luka is Lana Pilipović, senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Republic of Srpska.

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