Photo: FoNetUNESCO declared Nadežda Petrović a person of 2023 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the painter's birth, many exhibitions were organized, and her Memorial Museum in Belgrade is falling into disrepair
Tomorrow, October 11, marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of painter Nadežda Petrović. The exhibitions that were organized on that occasion in the country, in Paris and Montenegro, and the presentation of her work at the UNESCO headquarters, are overshadowed by the fact that her Memorial Museum is neglected and falling into disrepair.
First the good news.
In Čačak, Nadežda Petrović's hometown, the exhibition "Nadežda Petrović. Modernity and the nation". Authors of the exhibition prof. Igor Borozan and Dr. Lidija Merenik decided that with the 50 paintings with which she took the place of one of the key protagonists of Serbian modernity in Serbian art history. At the same time, the exhibition also talks about her social involvement as one of the founders of the Circle of Serbian Sisters and a volunteer nurse in the Balkans and the First World War.
UNESCO declared Nadežda Petrović the person of the year 2023. On this occasion, at the UNESCO Palace in Paris at the beginning of October, a presentation of the project marking the jubilee of this artist was organized. For about 150 permanent members of the delegation of this organization, a digital exhibition about Nadežda's life path and artistic work, and the monodrama "Unwritten Letters" by Milkica Miletić, performed by Vanja Milacić, were arranged in the ceremonial hall. Thus, after 111 years, Nadezhda "returned" to Paris, the place of her very important creative period.
Nadezhda's "stay" in Paris continues tomorrow, on her birthday, when a multimedia exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art from Belgrade will be opened in the Cultural Center of Serbia.
The RIMA gallery joins the celebration of the jubilee with a chamber exhibition in its Belgrade space, where it presents one of Nadežda's paintings from its private collection - "Harvest", which was created in 1908. in the period of the painter's short-lived impressionist episode.
In Montenegro, in Herceg Novi, as part of the commemoration of one century of the Serbian Sisters' Car, the exhibition "Nadežda Petrović - Heroine of Beauty, Humanity and Patriotism" was opened in the city gallery "Josip Bepo Beković".
However, in Belgrade, in the municipality of Palilula at 25 Ljubomira Stojanovića Street, the Memorial Museum of Rastka and Nadežda Petrović. Even on the occasion of the painter's jubilee, it was not renewed. And it literally fails. The outer walls of the museum are falling off, the roof structure and gutters are rusted, and the interior of the building is ruined and neglected. On the spot, inside the building, holes are visible in the ceiling, on the walls where the plaster is falling off, there is pronounced moisture, and in some parts, bricks are also sticking out.
Photo: FoNetThe house is under the protection of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of the City of Belgrade.
In 1975, Ljubica Luković, the sister of writer Rastko and painter Nadežda Petrović, bequeathed the family house to the National Museum with the desire to display valuable works and personal items that belonged to the famous Nadežda and Rastko.
Then in 1986. with the intention of being reconstructed, the house was closed to visitors, and the collection consisting of paintings, a library, plaques, postcards and objects of applied art, as well as furniture, were taken to the National Museum and Depot.
Now, the National Museum says that they are doing everything they can and that they don't know what will happen to the house. The Ministry of Culture did not plan any work on the house of the Rastka and Nadežda Petrović Memorial Museum.
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