This is a specialised exhibition for the blind and visually impaired, consisting of prints, paintings and sculptures from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska and dedicated to the art group “Space-Shape”, founded in 1975, who introduced abstraction to art in Bosnia and Herzegovina back in the 1970’s.
Organised with the professional assistance and support of the Typhlological Museum in Zagreb, the exhibition was first shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska to mark 40 years since the foundation of the art group “Space-Shape”. The Zagreb visit of the exhibition represents the continuation of the fruitful collaboration between MSURS and partner museums from the region, one of which is the Typhlological Museum in Zagreb. It also indicates efforts aiming at inter-institutional and inter-sectoral networking and creating a web of museums, with the main aim of using specially organised programmes and the latest museological presentation techniques to help integrate blind and visually impaired persons in the cultural life of communities. This collaboration formed the basis for conceiving a joint project and applying for funding under the Creative Europe scheme. In October and November 2017, the exhibition will also be shown at the National Museum of Montenegro in Cetinje and the Gallery of Matica Srpska in Novi Sad.
The exhibition included works by nine artists (Vojo Dimitrijević, Tomislav Dugonjić, Bekir Misirlić, Enes Mundžić, Nikola Njirić, Edin Numankadić, Ljubomir Perčinlić, Mustafa Skopljak and Radoslav Tadić), who participated in the work of the group at different times in their lives. The exhibition was organised with the aim to show to the public these abstract works of art, part of the great cultural heritage kept at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska, in accordance with the latest standards of museological presentation and in a way that would make them accessible to the blind and visually impaired.
It was possible to present museum items inclusively in this kind of exhibition thanks to the use of special adaptation techniques. The exhibits include downsized tactile replicas of artworks, as well as original pieces that can be touched by visitors; also, sounds and smells were used in the adaptation process. All the exhibits are displayed along with descriptive Braille labels and sound recordings containing background artist information and interpretations of the concepts behind the selected works. A special catalogue with texts in Braille was published to accompany the exhibition, designed to make it accessible to the visually impaired.
The project “Space, Touch, Shape” was curated by Dr. Sc. Sarita Vujković and Žana Vukičević, and staged with the assistance of the curatorial team of MSURS.
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