The exhibition "Art and Authority – Landscapes from the Josip Broz Tito Collection" presents selected landscapes from the collection of paintings of the Museum of Yugoslav History – 47 paintings and 11 prints by Nadežda Petrović,

Sava Šumanović, Petar Dobrović, Petar Lubarda, Milan Milovanović, Peđa Milosavljević, Milo Milunović, Đorđe Andrejević Kun, Stojan Aralica, Beta Vukanović, Ivan Grohar, Gabrijel Jurkić, and others. The exhibits illustrate trends in Yugoslav art; viewed from a different angle, however, they are also reflections of the ruling ideology. These works are not mere innocent depictions of nature and cities; clearly, they also played a political propagandist role, as representations of new society and a historical validation of the new Yugoslavia. A part of the exhibition includes landscapes conceived as presentations of carefully selected moments from Josip Broz Tito’s early life, which thus played a part in building a cult of personality around him, which was one of the cornerstones of the regime identity.

Along with the visual artistic representations of the place Tito came from made by such well-known Yugoslav artists as Stojan Aralica, Josip Generalić and Vilim Svečnjak, also presented in the Banja Luka exhibition are models of the houses in which Broz lived or stayed at different times during his life.

The landscapes presented to Josip Broz Tito as gifts were made over a timespan of eight decades in the 20^th century, from "Spring" by Ivan Grohar (1903) to the last paintings he was given, those by Peđa Milosavljević and Vasilije Jordan.

The exhibition also includes videos "The Fruits of Our Land" and "Framing the Space" by Jasmina Cibic, a visual artist from Slovenia, made in 2012 and 2013 in the frame of the project "For Our Economy and Culture", presented at the 55th Venice Biennale. These works correspond to the new way of reading landscape art and show that figurative painting can convey many messages, not only that which we see presented in it, which in this particular case turns out to be ideological.

Exhibition author: Ana Panić, curator, Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade

MSURS exhibition coordinator: Mladen Banjac, curator

The exhibition was organised in cooperation with the Museum of Yugoslav History in Belgrade and the Gallery of Matica Srpska in Novi Sad.

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