Art Sequences Project
The Exhibition Review
Presented at this exhibition are the works of twenty-four artists, born from 1985 to 1995 in Macedonia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Slovenia. With their works, the artists, close together both in space and time, are the testament to the techniques developed at their native Academies, but also to the distinct cultural, sociological and historical affairs and issues.Along with these "external factors" which can be regarded as the influence and common denominator in these rather divergent works, both in form and content, we are not to disregard the "internal factors" depicted through personal experience, individual sensibility ingrained in the process of creation, and the work itself, as a final product of that process. Different existential and real-life factors which formed the artists are noticeable together with their need for symbolic representation of the reality. This representation is expressed through many different forms: oil on canvas, installations, sculptures, drawings, video art and photography. The content of these forms is different - in some cases abstract, in others figurative. In some cases, the connection between the title of the work and its content is inseparable and only in observing both aspects conjointly can we find the potential meanings and narratives. |
Some works are so conceptual in nature that the idea transcends the material and allows the beholder to develop an associative relationship with the presented piece of art.Through the affirmation of the symbolic, many works are focused on the message by providing an engaging commentary on the discrepancies and irregularities of the social reality. Some of them deal with the constant fundamental in the painting: the color, its effect on the beholder or its use in seeking out new layers and tones.
This exhibition is at the same time an example of an unassuming generational interchange, without the artists' and curators' ambition to reach an exact definition. Its beauty lies in its irreducibility and divergence. This exhibition is an attestation to the creativity, themes, forms, ideas and the sensibilities of the artist in these regions. It will be alluring to follow their growth in the years to come.
Ana Arp
This exhibition is at the same time an example of an unassuming generational interchange, without the artists' and curators' ambition to reach an exact definition. Its beauty lies in its irreducibility and divergence. This exhibition is an attestation to the creativity, themes, forms, ideas and the sensibilities of the artist in these regions. It will be alluring to follow their growth in the years to come.
Ana Arp
Written by Authors
The project „Art sequences“ is a creative instrument presenting 24 young artists from the Balkans. The philosophy of the "Sequences of Art" project is the transnational mobility of cultural and creative actors and artworks with the potential to make a broad and long-term impact on the sector of culture and creative industries. The exhibition brings together 24 artists linking the Balkan countries and creating the foundations of cooperation and friendship among artists. The exhibition primarily targets the networking of young artists at the international level. Through the mobility and visibility of the works of art that seek to show the diversity and similarity of creativity in the contemporary renditions of young artists from Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Slovenia and Macedonia.The peculiarity of this exhibition lies in its multimedia diversity, in respect of the individual artistic practices and depictions. |
The exhibition is primarily freed from the thematic frameworks that have become the stereotype for featuring at group exhibitions, thus allowing artists to present the freedom of their artistic expression in using different media: paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations, video works and photographs. "Sequences of Art" is a project that wishes to present to the young audience, as well as to the general public as the consumers of culture, the echo of a time that lasts but remains in the works of the artist. It is they who have the essence of a critical and reminiscent review of the same. The works of these artists epitomize an invisible cut in time. This small but momentous part of the artistic scene of these spaces will be exhibited at the Heritage House in Belgrade (Kuća legata), in August 2019.