Muzej savremene umjetnosti<br />Republike Srpske

Museum of Contemporary Art
of Republic of Srpska

 

The exhibition "Space–Form. The Path to Abstraction" includes works from the collection of the Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is dedicated to the "Space – Form" art group, who introduced abstraction to Bosnian-Herzegovinian art in the early 1970’s.

The Space–Form art group was founded in 1975 by Tomislav Dugonjić, Enes Mundžić, Ljubomir Perčinlić and Edin Numankadić, mainly young artists, who formed the core group. They were later joined by Vojo Dimitrijević, Nikola Njirić, Bekir Misirlić, Mustafa Skopljak and Radoslav Tadić.

The "Space–Form" art group brought innovation to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s fine art, as it developed in the wider context of the art created in the former Yugoslavia in the second half of the 20th century. The group is considered to have taken a radical turn from the previous, traditional ways of seeing and making art in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as delimited by figuration and realistic style(s).

The group introduced abstraction as a new art trend, and the activities of its members – prominent painters, printmakers and sculptors – helped these progressive art ideas become something more than sporadic acts of provocation and individuals’ solitary aspirations.

Exhibition author: Ivana Udovičić, museum advisor, Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina

MSURS exhibition coordinator: Maša Davidović, curator

The exhibition was held in cooperation with the Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo.