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above situation with an artistic statement: I don’t view art, I 3. Solo exhibitions of already established artists from
understand art! the entire former Yugoslavia region (and beyond) such as
Through about seventy program activities held so far Zoran Todorović (2009), Vladimir Nikolić (2010), Milica Tomić
(exhibitions, lectures, promotions and other speech and (2010), Slaven Tolj and Sandro Đukić (2010), Zoran Naskovski
audio-visual programs) in “Dr. Vinko Perčić” Gallery, we can (2010) ), Kristian Kožul (2011), Vlasta Delimar and Milan Božić
follow at least four parallel trends that have positioned this (2011), Uroš Đurić (2013), Ilija Šoškić (2015), Goran Trbuljak
institution among the most agile regional art platforms. These (2016) or Željko Kipke (2016). The exhibitions Salvador Dali,
four branched and well-thought-out thematic circles can, Infinite Minute (2011) and Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes of Fame
conditionally speaking, be described as: (2012) can be conditionally added to this group.
1. Innovated and continuous exhibition of works from the 4. Programs that, along with undoubted artistic value,
Perčić Collection Permanent Exhibit through exhibitions have a pronounced documentary and educational
such as Stipan Kopilović: 130 years since the birth of the painter character such as Rooms with a View (2009), Želimir Žilnik:
(2007), Ivan Tikvicki Pudar, Landscapes (2007), Bela Duranci: Between Putin and Obama (2009), Homage to Painting (2013),
Painting between two wars (2010), Vinko Perčić’s last collection Love of Subversion (2013), The Other Face of Democracy (2014),
sacrament (2011), Dr. Vinko Perčić Collection: Selection from Spaces of Memory (2018), The Body as a Medium (2018) and the
the Gallery legacy (2018) and the Permanent Exhibit itself. Drawer’s Contract by Branislav Brankov (2019)… There are also
2. Exhibitions and events presenting the Subotica art scene presentations of related art platforms from all over SFRY,
(with an emphasis on younger artists) pointing to its regional such as the Novi Sad Art Clinic (2008), Ljubljana Little Chapel
and international rise: Suzana Vuksanović: SUBcOnTinental (2009), the Belgrade Independent Art Association Remont
CAb (2007), Ksenija Kovačević and Ratka Lugumerski: Nights (2009) and the contemporary art platform Kiosk (2014), the
of Museums - Anecdote Amoreuse (2008 ), Sava Halugin: Nights art associations Croart and Krupart (2017), the Zagreb youth
of Museums - Adumbrations (2011), Bálint Szombathy: We Were magazine Polet (2018), and others.
Heroes - Hősök voltunk 1971 - 2014 in cooperation with the
“Likovni susret” Modern Art Gallery (exhibition awarded the
Politika Award “Vladislav Ribnikar” for the best exhibition in
Serbia during 2014) or Maja Rakočević Cvijanov: Authentic
(2015).

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Questions to Answers - instead of a conclusion that, in historical ballast of the unattained better (artistic) past? Does
fact, does not exist the culture of memory at the same time imply the catastrophe
These exhibitions (as well as the unmentioned ones), of forgetting? The questions can certainly come in a series
historically-artistically relevant and serious in cultural and and multiply indefinitely - and almost any of them could be
production sense, held under the organizational patronage considered rhetorical. However, without losing sight of the
of “Dr. Vinko Perčić” Gallery make us question if great artistic awareness that in today’s art, stable and forever occupied
utopias, similar to the avant-garde ones, are even possible and mapped territories are not possible and that on a global
today, and can domestic museum and gallery institutions level, all definitions that pretend to reflect the final truths and
be identified as bearers of utopian potentials? Have and to judgments are overcome the moment they are uttered - by
what extent these programs resulted in a true strengthening simultaneous movement from a static to a moving image or
of the institutional status and increased visibility of the artistic event and back - “Dr. Vinko Perčić” Gallery has affirmed
Gallery itself, is it borne in mind that at the beginning of itself as a certainly relevant space of constant confirmation,
our story it had three and today it is reduced to only one reconsideration, loss and regain, constitution and construction
employee - that is, only the director, who is at the same time of social, cultural and artistic identities. Modernity is therefore
his own employer?! If we view it as a performative play, or becoming an ally to the traditional, and the eternal circulation
an institutional experiment, this situation might even be of artistic energies is becoming the only reliable guarantee of
considered stimulating – however, undisturbed, so-called the preservation of durability, (in)stability and its institutional
systemic functioning still requires stronger and more reliable vitality and relevance.
social guarantees. If the assumed system does not exist, isn’t In Novi Sad, October/ November 2020
our entire cultural existence too based on the creation of a
fundamentally false image - and is it the so-called white lie that
we obviously need? To what extent do today’s institutions and
artists existing in Zabatka, Szent-Mária, Maria Theresiopolis,
Maria-Theresienstadt, Szabadka or present-day Subotica -
operating within its complex multinational, multilingual,
religious and even civilizational (sub)systems – see the fact
that New Art in Serbia was initially born and took place in this
city as an essential advantage, or can we observe this data as a

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