Ivana Bago: Yugoslav Fanonism in Three (Exhibitionary) Acts: 1950/1972/1989

Monday, 24 May 2021 In March 1950, Pallais de Chaillot in Paris, the home of the National Museum of French Monuments, became the site of the exhibition L’art médiéval yougoslave, the first large-scale official presentation of Yugoslav art in the West after WWII. Under the guidance of writer Miroslav Krleža (1893–1891), the project evolved from …

Dissent of Zenitism – A Tribute

Artistic, Programmatic, Aesthetic, Political and Existential Critique of the World The journal Zenit (Zenith) was a Yugoslav avant-garde review of new art and culture, initiated in 1921 by the poet and critic Ljubomir Micić. Until 1923, it was published in Zagreb, and subsequently in Belgrade. Zenit was sharply criticised, prohibited even, and accused of being …