Gallery of Science and Technology of SASA
Exhibition organized by:
The Museum of Science and Technology
Gallery of Science and Technology of SASA
Author: Miloš Jurišić
Forty art /documentary photographs made by Miloš Jurišić will be shown at the exhibition. The photographs present edifices that are most distinctive examples of secession in Belgrade. After the exhibition is closed, they will become a part of the fund of study collection of the Museum's Department of Architecture.
Secession is an important art movement, which surfaced in many fields by the end of the nineteenth century, predominantly in architecture. It brought about radical change in the rules of construction use and understanding of space conceptualization and, in addition, some new materials, like iron, were introduced. In our country it appears at the beginning of the twentieth century, when the most important Serbian architects started accepting the new movement (М. Аntonović, N. Nеstorović, Dj. Bajalović, P. Popović, S. Јоvanović, B. Таnazević). In the period preceding the First World War, Secession as a movement dominates Belgrade architecture and is present until the twenties of the twentieth century. Secession is also important as a movement because it allowed the artists to draw inspiration in national heritage. In this regard, the most notable representative of Secession in Belgrade was Branko Tanazević (the building of the Central Telephone Exchange at the intersection of Kosovska and Palmotićeva Street, as well as the former building of the Ministry of Education (today Foundation of Vuk Karadžić). MoreExhibition of Miloš Jurišić is dedicated to the extension of Secession (Art Nouveau) in Belgrade architecture, a style not yet completely researched in Serbian art. The exhibition promises and encourages, since the organizer is Museum of Science and Technology and the author is a photographer from the same institution. Deciding to perform by the use of photographic representation, Jurišić has revealed two components of his explorative personality. As a passionate collector of old postcards, he has confidence in documentary verity of photography on one hand and its communicational effectiveness on the other. In the same time, he is also a devoted user of creative potential of photo camera which, through his selection, he has entrusted with revealing the characteristics and values of Belgrade secession in architecture. It is not a mere curiosity that the oldest preserved secession building in Belgrade - “House of the Society for Beautification of Vračar” from 1901-1902, which had experienced changes between two wars, has recently got its original appearance since restorers had the photo of the building from 1909.
It should not be forgotten that the Secession openly strived to the comfort, often at the expense of functionality, gaining the grave qualification of “kitsch”. However, to the critics of “false art”, “life in pink”, we could offer at least one characteristic, by which Secession humanly colored his ideology: it is the right of everyone to enjoy the complete, therefore also visual, brightness of the human environment. All participants were dedicated to that, also with the high level of craftsmanship and invention. At the beginning of 20th century, Serbian architects acted on the basis of advocating the freedom of artistic ideas, knowing, for sure, the inscription of the exhibition pavilion of Viennese Secession from 1897: “To every age its art and to art its freedom”.With democratic spirits and free practice, they fitted in the atmosphere of years of the world prosperity of the humankind before the disaster of the world war, while, at the same time, they paved the road to further modernization of Serbian architecture.
Prof. Dr. Miodrag Jovanović Catalog | | Сецесија на београдским фасадама : Изложба фотографија Милоша Јуришића : Београд 2008 = Secession Style on the Facades of Belgrade : Exibition of Photographs by Miloš Jurišić : Belgrade 2008 / [аутор изложбе и фотографија Милош Јуришић ; аутор текста Миодраг Јовановић ; аутор каталошког дела Снежана Тошева]. – Београд : Музеј науке и технике : Галерија науке и технике САНУ, 2008 (Земун : Алта Нова). – 35 стр. : фотгр. ; 24 cm. – (Галерија науке и технике САНУ = Galery of Science and Tehnology SASA ; бр. 5)
Упоредо срп. Текст и енгл. Превод. – тираж 500. – Каталог објеката: стр. 26-35.
ISBN 978-86-7025-455-8 |
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