18 October – 11 December 2022
Authors: Žaklina Marković and Dejan Vučetić
Exhibition consultants: SASA Corresponding Member Sava Halugin, Professor Jasmina Čubrilo
‘Olga Jevrić – Composition and Structure’ is the title of the exhibition to be presented at the SASA Gallery, on the occasion of an important anniversary: the centenary of the birth of the distinguished Yugoslav and Serbian sculptor.
Olga Jevrić was born in Belgrade, where she graduated from the Piano Department at the Music Academy in 1946, followed by her graduation from the Sculpture Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1948. She was elected a SASA corresponding member in 1974, and in 1983, she became the first and only female sculptor, a full member of SASA.
Olga Jevrić’s oeuvre has had a superior reach in our and European modern arts of the second half of the 20th century. Her visionary sculptures paved the way for a new chapter in Yugoslav sculpturing, with new materials, abstract forms and a unique art language, simultaneously remaining an original phenomenon in our regions. The Collection that she bequeathed to the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts was named cultural property of national importance in 2015, while numerous exhibitions abroad, and the inclusion of her sculptures into important world art collections, such as the collection of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the National Gallery in Berlin and the Tate Modern in London, confirm that Olga Jevrić’s work transcends national boundaries.
The audience will be presented with the works from two endowments, the SASA Legacy and Heritage House in Belgrade in its integral units, as well as a few works from the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Terra Centre for Fine and Applied Arts and private collections. More than five decades of fruitful work of Olga Jevric will be showcased with over 200 works, which include all major cycles and individual works, from Proposals for Monuments (1951-1965), which were the first bold steps of the national sculpture, from figuration towards abstraction, to her last works, which demonstrate her engrossment into textile features of materials.
In addition to marking an important anniversary and recognizing the work of Olga Jevrić and its unquestionable importance within the Serbian, then Yugoslav, as well as European art scene of the second half of the 20th century, the exhibition’s purpose is to enlighten younger generations with the opus of our distinguished author.
On the other hand, the mature audience will have the opportunity of seeing again the distinct abstract forms which placed her among the most acclaimed sculptors of the 20th century.
The project was realized under the auspice of the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia, the Secretary of Culture of the City of Belgrade and Wiener Städtische Insurance Group.
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