On July, 13th, at 9PM, the XXXVIII “Theatre City” festival’s fine arts programme is to start in “Santa Maria in Punta” Church and that with the opening of the exhibition “Petar Lubarda-The New Framing”. The exhibition is done in collaboration with the National Museum of Montenegro. The authors of the exhibition are: Filip Mikić (the author of the video works), Snežana Ivović and Miloš Marjanović (art historians).
As a part of the fine arts programme this year, the “Theatre City” festival continues its long-standing collaboration with the National Museum of Montenegro, the most significant national institution in the domain of visual arts.
In the accompanying text for the exhibition, the author of which is Snežana Ivović, the following is stated: “The fact that all that is valuable stands the test of time is certainly true when it comes to Lubarda’s grandiose canon. To honor the life and work of one of the most prominent Montenegrin artists of the 20th century on the 50th anniversary of his passing, in a way not yet seen till now, the “Theatre City” collaborated with the National Museum of Montenegro in a project for which the setting is one of the symbols of Budva. Lubarda’s canon is inspired and influenced by Montenegro to a great degree-its landscapes, epic poetry, long-standing tradition and values that had existed since time immemorial. The one who encounters Montenegrin landscapes and their unreal beauty at least once, is certain to realize the sentimental value of Lubarda’s paintings. Montenegro was to him the “greatest of all teachers”, the fountain of life and perpetual inspiration. It eventually made him who he was-he received many of its gifts but also suffered its tragic faith at times”.
The “Theatre City” explained its decision behind marking in a new way the 50th anniversary from the passing of Petar Lubarda, one of the most influential contemporary Montenegrin and Yugoslav painters : “Led by this year festival’s motto that conceptualizes the permanent leaning towards the future, the festival plans to mark in a new, contemporary way the 50 years from the painter Petar Lubarda’s passing. He was one of the most renowned contemporary Montenegrin and Yugoslav painters. The exhibition named “Petar Lubarda-The New Framing”, has as its goal exploring the possibilities of breaking some new grounds when it comes to seeing in a fresh way the already established artistic standpoints and postulates with the assistance of new technologies. The idea is for the works from the most important phases of Lubarda’s canon, in the selection of the National Museum of Montenegro, to be presented with the use of 3D mapping technique, in the venue of the “Santa Maria in Punta” Church. We expect for the already established value of Lubarda’s canon to offer new semantic aspects, defined by the synergy of the space used for the exhibition, and affirmed poetics in addition to the possibility of mediation and reception of visual arts by means of new technologies. The authors of the exhibition are: Filip Mikić (the author of the video works), Snežana Ivović and Miloš Marjanović (art historians).”
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