Museum of Contemporary Arts Belgrade (MSUB), Republic of Serbia :

SCALES OF ANATOMIES an international Exhibition

schedule opening 9th September 2016.
Aim of Exhibition :
Artworks in curatorial aim makes a venture of bodily and corporeal
depictions, constructs and allusions. Material strives from Avant-Garde
experiments in Serbia and ex Yugoslavia, through transitory existentialist
notions of liberties of consumerism period, right into the realm of posthistorical effects of new art.
The findings are initiated in Slavic / Balkan artistic heritage and through
artistic fissures of social and psychological anatomies as they invoke
ideological and historical terrors of recent past and it's aftermath in
constructed present. The Exhibition does carry common notions of
human corporeality of material culture and it's ironies toward a postcommunist and neo liberal resignations of contemporary world.
The foundation of the show are rarely seen artworks from Museum of
Contemporary Arts, Belgrade collection: few belong to a 'Zenit'
movement and Serbian Surrealism collage and photo pieces from late
1920s with their discovering of the secret mechanisms of relations, while
postwar period is epitomized in the neo figurative allegories by Leonid
Sejka (1932-1970) and Radomir Reljic (1938-2006) whose early works in
paintings and objects make the peaks of structural approach to the hidden
meanings in ex - yugoslavian visual arts. An evident notion of polarized
tradition in european East - West culture capture the issues of ideology,
grotesque, spiritual preservance and memory, as they are edited into
videos and digital prints of Istvan Horkay (1945). The allusive evocative
traits is made by Carmen Dobre Hametner (1978) in her photographic
series 'Consuming History' as they make a premiere show in this context,
within relics of eastern bloc, romanian decades of communism and
corporealy depicted imagining of the past. The productive inquiry is
concluded in the interweaving artworks of Markus Proschek from Wien
(1981) dealing with bodily aftermath of melding of ideology, sexuality,
memory and dissent, while being in the core of contemporary anxieties.
Collection of MSUB:
1.'Zenit' prints and documents c. 1925
2. Collages of Belgrade Surrealist group V, Bor; M. Risti c. 1930
3. Leonid ejka: c.3 paintings and objects - Amorphous Multipication c.

1957
4. Radomir Relji: c.3 paintings - Atomized Samurai, Musikalische
opfer,c.1963-65 usw.
Artsists from abroad:
5. Istvan Horkay - video projections; digital prints (Hungary)
6. Carmen Dobre Hametner 'Consuming History' light boxes (Romania)
7. Markus Proschek : 2 spatial /object works (Austria)
Initiators - Curators:
Boris Manner (Universitat fur Angewandte Kunst, Wien)
Nikola uica (University of Arts - Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade)
Partners with MSUB, Belgrade:
Ministry of Culture and Information Republic of Serbia, Ostereichische
Kultur-Forum Belgrad, Collegium Hungaricum Belgrade.