The Cultural Center of Serbia in Paris marks fifty years since its foundation with the exhibition "Sava Šumanović and European Realism between the Two World Wars". The exhibition starts on Friday, May 26 and will last until June 23.
The idea is that the exhibition in the Cultural Center of Serbia presents the latest research results that show Šumanović's connection with French culture and the international Parisian scene.
The exhibition will present nine paintings and four drawings from the Matica Srpska Gallery and eight drawings from the Pavlo Beljanski Memorial Collection, followed by video animations of the paintings "Breakfast on the Grass" and "Drunken Ship". The exhibition will be complemented by a special video segment with important examples of Šumanović's painting, as well as works by his role models and contemporaries from public and private collections.
The author of the exhibition is Milana Kvas, manager of the Pavel Beljanski Memorial Collection.
For five decades, the space of the Cultural Center hosted thousands of artists and creators, among them some of the most important names of our artistic scene. Paris inherits a large part of the history of Serbian art and almost all of our most famous painters of the 20th century lived and created in Paris. The post-war Serbian art circle was largely formed here. Today, a large number of our young artists and creatives live in Paris, and the role of the Cultural Center of Serbia is precisely to support and present them - the director of this institution, Natali Beljanski Popović, told "Večernje Novosti" earlier.
Planning of the program for 2024, when the Olympic Games will be held in Paris, is underway. Considering that Paris will be the center of the world at that moment, and that the position in the very center of Paris opposite one of the world's largest centers of contemporary art "Georges Pompidou" allows great visibility, the Center obliges to use that period in the best possible way.
S.Ć./Evening news
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