January 1, 2019
The exhibition “Anecdotes” by Marko Crnobrnja opened on January 1, 2019 at the Balkan Cinema, organized by the “Saša Marcheta” Foundation.
The owner of the Foundation, Saša Marcheta, said on the occasion of this exhibition: “On Tuesday, January 1, the Balkan Cinema opens its doors to all art lovers.” The “Anecdote” exhibition, by Marko Crnobrnja, organized by the Saša Marchet Foundation, is my New Year’s gift to Belgrade and is just one of a series of events we are planning. I invite everyone to visit the Balkan cinema on the first day of the new year and watch the extraordinary exhibition of a great artist”.
Stevan Vuković, a member of the Foundation’s program council, wrote about the exhibition: “The children in these sculptural units are not presented in some romantically designed ‘natural state’, in which only their spontaneous openness, innocence and immediacy would be emphasized, as a strong counterpoint to the adult’s alienation . They are not portrayed as completely engrossed in the game, carried away by the pleasure principle and freed from any responsibility, which would then be solely the responsibility of their parents. Children in Crnobrnja’s work are in a constant process of examining and researching the surrounding reality, which often transaggressively confronts them with potential dangers and puts them in situations where the wrong choice can have unwanted consequences. The educational aspect of the works consists precisely in inducing a sense of responsibility for themselves and others, in children as the audience and users of those works”.
The author of the exhibition, Marko Crnobrnja, was born in 1978 in Obrenovac. He graduated in sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, in the class of Professor Mrđan Bajić in 2005. Since 2009, he has been engaged as a professor of practical teaching at the Secondary Art School “Tehnoart” in Belgrade. Since 2017, he has been working at the Faculty of Applied Arts as an artistic associate. His sculptures are part of the permanent exhibition of the Pedagogical Museum in Belgrade, in the Zepter collection, the Kraljevo National Museum and several private collections.
