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28/9/2007

Micro Narratives

Museums, galleries and alternative venues, Belgrade

48th October Salon

The exhibition of the 48th October Salon / Micro narratives will present around 86 local and foreign artists selected by Lóránd Hegyi, renowned curator from Hungary and art director of the Salon and his assistant Sasa Janjic, curator from Belgrade. Around 70 artists from 13 different countries around the world will come to Belgrade. They will be involved in a direct exchange of ideas with 15 local artists. Some earlier and latest works by the selected artists and artistic “responses” to the current European and world issues will be displayed at this year’s exhibition. The exhibition is divided into two parts. The first, biggest part, entitled Temptation of small realities – Micro Communities, presents international artists of the middle and new generations who face the problems of the creation of new anthropological constellations and of micro communicative situations. The second part is entitled Urban Crossroads – New York, Paris, Seoul. In this sector we present artists from three metropolises from three different continents, which are often valuated as the references of artistic strategies of young generations.

This year’s October Salon will present an artistic message which announces a new attitude and a new orientation of artists in the era of the radicalization of global conflicts, religions, ideologies and socio-cultural value structures. The surprising and emotionally touching rapprochement to the small realities, to direct socio-cultural constellations and micro communicative relations requires an anti-hierarchical, anti-monumentality, sophisticated and intimate, emphatic and modest artistic practice concentrated on the artistic creation of new situations and on the processes of sensibilization. The micro narratives represent an attempt to redefine the artistic practice in the bushes of complex sociocultural situations, which reflect, by their fragmentary, spontaneous, anti-teleological, tolerant, open and sensitive acceptance, the typical post utopian state of our contemporary era and offer a new, credible and modest way of reading.


Text by Lóránd Hegyi

This year’s International Exhibition October Salon presents an artistic message which announces a new attitude and a new orientation of artists in the era of the radicalization of global conflicts, religions, ideologies and socio-cultural value structures. The surprising and emotionally touching rapprochement to the small realities, to direct socio-cultural constellations and micro communicative relations requires an anti-hierarchical, anti-monumentality, sophisticated and intimate, emphatic and modest artistic practice concentrated on the artistic creation of new situations and on the processes of sensibilization. Here we have a sophisticated, transitory poetic micro narration which expresses the personal involvement in the direct artistic reality and sensible empathy and, at the same time determines again the localization of the artistic practice in the dense versatility of total social processes.

The micro narratives represent an attempt to redefine the artistic practice in the bushes of complex sociocultural situations, which reflect, by their fragmentary, spontaneous, anti-teleological, tolerant, open and sensitive acceptance, the typical post utopian state of our contemporary era and offer a new, credible and modest way of reading.

The smoothness, the flexibility and the empathy are the moments of a new strategy of poetic modesty which observes and evaluates the direct small realities. This seems very important for the contemporary artistic practice, and these are the artists who put in the center of their work those nuances and intimacies, the direct realities and sensitive details, thus contributing to the intensication of empathy.

It seems that this empathy and poetic openness towards those sophisticated anthropological constellations represent a self-understood, intimate approach to small realities, the interest in the contextuality of direct micro communities the empathic observation of the importance and peculiarity of situations, the diving into the mentioned versatile, concrete, individual and non-generalized micro cultural bushes, which bears the features of separate entities and constellations, and the specific features, in principle, of the new micro narration. In these micro narrations, dreams and psychic projections are interconnected, and the personally experienced and culturally learned situations as well, the direct small realities and the socio-cultural simulacrum.

This recontextualization of the artistic practice in laminated, contradictory cultural-historical processes and also the sensual, picturesque incarnation of references by metaphoric and allegoric systems of symbols, put the work of a contemporary artist into modest, intimate and direct small realities, in which cultural metaphors play just as limited, relative signs of certain demonumentalized forms of pathos and allegories. It seems that this attitude of new intimacy, sensitivity and skepticism towards monolithic, utopian, generally accepted ideologies, and the openness and tolerance towards small realities of non-diminishable complex constellations is very important, even courageous in Serbia, and in Central and Eastern Europe as well.

The exhibition Micro-Narratives is divided into three parts. The first, biggest part, entitled Temptation of small realities – Micro Communities, presents international artists of the middle and new generations who face the problems of the creation of new anthropological constellations and of micro communicative situations. There is a striking number of women in this sector, which maybe shows that the new art of our era expresses a special affinity towards micro communicative sensibility, empathy and emotional involvement, i. e. the aptitude to soft, intimate, sophisticated behavior with small realities, and as such maybe shows a certain antimonumentalistic, feminine entity.

The second part is entitled Urban Crossroads – New York, Paris, Seoul. In this sector we present artists from three metropolises from three different continents, which are often valuated as the references of artistic strategies of young generations. The three big cities represent three different cultural traditions and three different systems of social organization accepted by many artists in the contemporary global culture and transmitted by them in other cultural centers.

The third part of the exhibition, entitled Re-Taking Grounds – Working in Immediate Relations present the works in open space of urban situations, with intensive communication among various areas of contemporary urban life in the center.
Lóránd Hegyi


The exhibition will be held in different museums, galleries and alternative venues in the city, such as the 25th May Museum, Legacy House, Belgrade Public Bath, the Belgrade Cultural Centre (Art Gallery, Artget Gallery, Belgrade Window). It will take place from 29th September till 11th November 2007.

A bilingual catalogue with textual interpretations of the project written by the Art Director of the Salon and his assistant will be published for the purpose of this exhibition. Isidora Nikolić will be in charge of the graphic design and visual identity of this year’s October Salon.

The Assembly of the City of Belgrade http://www.beograd.org.yu is the founder and the patron of the October Salon and the Belgrade Cultural Centre http://www.kcb.org.yu is the organizer of this international event.

The 48th October Salon Board:
Savo Popovic, Chairman
Bojan Bem
Bojana Buric
Natalija Cerovic
Dorijan Kolundzija
Ivan Kucina
Branko Miljus
Nenad Radic
Zoran Todorovic

The Legacy House, Knez Mihailova 46

The Belgrade Public Bath, Cara Dusana 45
• Friday October 5 at 19:00 – Snezana Arnautovic, performance Pain spaces
• Friday October 12 from 20:00 to 24:00 - launch party Ambiental transformation of Nenad Rackovic
The Belgrade Cultural Centre , Knez Mihailova 6
The Arts Gallery, Knez Mihailova 6
The Artget Gallery, Trg Republike 5
The Belgrade Window, Knez Mihailova 6

Public Space – the plateau in front of the Belgrade Cultural Centre
the corner of the street Brace Jugovica and Studentski trg

Workig hours of all venues: Tuesday – Sunday 12 – 8pm, closed on Monday

The 25th May Museum, Museum of Yugoslav History, Boticeva 6
September 29th 2007, at 19.00
The opening ceremony of the 48th October salon and the presentation of awards

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