Exhibition ‘Uroš Predić – the Noble Essence of Everyday Life’
The exhibition ‘Uroš Predić – the Noble Essence of Everyday Life’, authored by Snežana Mišić, PhD, and Professor Igor Borozan, will officially open at the SASA Gallery, on Tuesday, 12 March, at 7 p.m. as a result of a successful, several-decade-long cooperation on the promotion and presentation of the overall national art and cultural heritage between the Matica Srpska Gallery and the SASA Gallery. On this occasion, the two institutions were united by artist Uroš Predić, who, throughout his long and in term of creative work very prolific life, was inseparably linked to both Matica Srpska and the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. A similar exhibition was realized at the Matica Srpska Gallery in 2022/2023.
Artwork from various collections will be displayed on the premises of the Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, providing insight into the life, work and theme concepts of Uroš Predić. In addition to the works from the Matica Srpska Gallery, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the National Museum of Serbia, the National Museum of Zrenjanin, the National Museum of Pančevo, Matica Srpska, the Serbian Orthodox Church Museum, the Patriarchate of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Braničevo, Kovilj Monastery, the Theatre Museum of Vojvodina, the House of Jevrem Grujić, the Belgrade City Museum, the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade and many others, the Exhibition will feature the works from private collections, most of which have not been exhibited before, thus unavailable to a wider audience. Predić’s basic thematic choices will be presented through several sections: anecdote and social genre, religious painting, portraits, national history themes and ties with Matica Srpska and the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The most famous paintings are among the displayed ones such as: A Girl at the Fountain, Kosovo Maiden, Sulking Girl, Merry Brothers, An Orphan at Mother’s Grave, and Hercegovinian Refugees will be on display. Thanks to the cooperation with the Computer Graphics Department of the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad and the application of modern technologies, the iconostasis of the Church of Saint Martyr George in Bečej will be available at the exhibition.
An eponymous catalogue by Snežana Mišić, PhD, and Professor Igor Borozan, and an exhibition brochure by Jelena Mežinski Milovanović, a museum advisor accompanies the exhibition.