The exhibition "Dobrović, Šumanović, Konjović, Šuput – European Contexts" consists of the 43 works came from the collection of the Gallery of the Matica Srpska and presented the oeuvres of four great painters, Petar Dobrović (1890-1942), Sava Šumanović (1896-1942), Milan Konjović (1898-1993) and Bogdan Šuput (1914-1942),

whose life paths, careers and work connected them to Novi Sad and the Matica Srpska at certain points in time. All the four artists were trained in Paris, the hub of art trends at the time, after which they returned to their homeland and painted in ways which indicate the European context of modern Serbian art.

The exhibition was designed as one possible view on some of the ideas cherished in painting in the first half of the 20th century, ideas encouraged by Europe but fully implemented and put into practice using a local, Serbian approach. Along with a real appreciation of the messages and lessons of the wider European context, the work of the four selected artists also revealed a travesty of ideas related to the concept of return. The newly created modernism, which may even be labelled moderate, fell in with the potential, limitations and achievements of the local environment, i.e. the taste of the bourgeois elite that essentially formed it.

Author of exhibition: Tijana Palkovljević Bugarski, Mr. Sc., Director of the Gallery of the Matica Srpska

Exhibition set up: Snežana Mišić, MA, Senior Curator, Gallery of the Matica Srpska, and Lana Pilipović, Senior Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska

The exhibition was organized in collaboration with the Gallery of the Matica Srpska (Novi Sad), in the framework of an inter-state cooperation programme under the auspices of the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Srpska and the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia.

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