The student exhibition “Lead Years” of the Faculty of Visual Arts opened at the JU Center for Culture in Bijelo Polje

The student exhibition “Years of Lead”, which presents the works of students from all modules of the Faculty of Visual Arts, opened on Wednesday, May 10 in the gallery of the JU Center for Culture “Vojislav Bulatović Strunjo”, at 7 pm in Bijelo Polje. With the title “Lead Years” (EKV album from 1985), the exhibition actually refers to the period of the 60s/80s of the 20th century in Italy, known for violence and conflicts between the left and the right, called the “Years of Lead” or “Years of Lead (Anni di piombo)”.

More current perhaps than ever before, young artists send a message with their works, and the museum pedagogue of the Center of Contemporary Art Vuk Vuković wrote the following in the catalog in June 2022: “Generations of the new millennium that began with the terrorist attack on the WTC (2001), then suffered economic collapse (2008), then was shaken by a tsunami (2011), to experience the global pandemic of Kovid-19 (2020, global lockdown), and now has become a war (2022, Ukraine), they live in the time of digital dematerialization of otherness. in a short time, so many global events have accumulated, some of which due to their power of destruction are difficult to encompass by socio-psychological analysis, and it may be that the reason for this is that we googled a lot, in the era of the “information bomb” (Paul Virilio), little It gets the impression that all this – pandemic, war, sanctions and inflation, impending hunger, polarized world – is happening elsewhere, instantly appearing/disappearing on eruptive screens that we are constantly, silently looking at. However, the students of the Faculty of Visual Arts are no stranger to finding in the poetry of EKV today a base from which they will subversively, constructively, resist and provocatively/thoughtfully act on more than threatening trends of the time, which would so easily normalize everything that, in essence, and on many levels it calls into question, uproots it from the wide resistant context and places it in a small space, pressed and suppressed by itself, insufficient for the development of an irreducible “difference”.

The exhibition was opened by actress Nela Terzić of Bjelo Polje theater, and the audience was greeted by prof. Danijela Darmanović Mahmutović. The music program was completed by the students of the School for Elementary Music Education, Omar Mekić (class of Prof. Jasmin Ćorović) and Nina Božović (class of Prof. Elena Peruničić).