Exhibition at Mećavnik
The exhibition by a young painter, 25-year-old Marko Kusmuk from Pale, should have been opened in the gallery Macola at Mećavnik on 16 February. However, the opening happened seven days later. Everyone was waiting for Emir Kusturica who wanted to personally open the exhibition of this great artist, since the exhibition in these times brings memories of all the beauty of the previous state in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Kusturica arrived on Monday afternoon from the tour with No smoking orchestra across South America, so the exhibition was opened the next day. Of course, this made Marko Kusmuk the happiest. Kusmuk graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, in the class of Professor Nusret Pašić,and shortly after that, last year, he earned his MA at Accademia di Belle Arti (painting department) in Rome.
‘Of course it is a great pleasure for me that Emir Kusturica will open my exhibition, and that opportunity I would never miss even if I had to wait longer,’ said Marko Kusmuk to a Danireporter shortly before the opening at Mećavnik.
Just to remind, Emir Kusturica was on the tour across Argentina and Chile recently, where he was claimed for a notable citizen of Rosario, the birthplace of revolutionist Che Guevara and also one street in Kusturica’s Drvengrad was named after Che Guevara.
Obviously satisfied with the exhibition of young Kusmuk, between other things he also said that in this weird world he lives in, where he can’t differentiate between the left and the right hemisphere, northern and southern, it is good when someone this young reminds him of, not only past times, but also of the things that were good in Bosnia and Herzegovina he used to live in. ‘While looking at these paintings, my first impression is that here comes a painter who uses strong figuration and with his drawing reminds us of the good things in Bosnia and Herzegovina that used to be. From some lightness of Ljubović to good moves of Berber, I’ll say those graphics that Aleksić brought to us, even when we didn’t know about him being popular, and he was more popular in Belgrade than in Sarajevo. So, we have here a young painter who not only refreshed our memory of our previous country, but he also put in front of us the things that are in it. At least I think he brought the essence of the things that were worth in it. It is wonderful that this young man from Pale creates one type of fine art, art experience which has just disappeared in times when painting in Sarajevo was a part of one positive trend, with a mixture of people and nations, and in good controlled country they managed to succeed in painting, in cinematography, in literature,’ said Kusturica. He thinks that we are to face someone who brings in front of us more than just good old times.
‘The thing that is extremely good is, it seems to me, that this man took the best samples of English painting, the best representatives of what Veličković, Mujezinović and others presented in phases and fragments. Besides the sentiment that visits me, with great confusion, about which part of hemisphere I am in,’ said Emir Kusturica and concluded: ‘This exhibition is the awakening of the tradition I was talking about. Congratulations!’
Kusturica arrived on Monday afternoon from the tour with No smoking orchestra across South America, so the exhibition was opened the next day. Of course, this made Marko Kusmuk the happiest. Kusmuk graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, in the class of Professor Nusret Pašić,and shortly after that, last year, he earned his MA at Accademia di Belle Arti (painting department) in Rome.
‘Of course it is a great pleasure for me that Emir Kusturica will open my exhibition, and that opportunity I would never miss even if I had to wait longer,’ said Marko Kusmuk to a Danireporter shortly before the opening at Mećavnik.
Just to remind, Emir Kusturica was on the tour across Argentina and Chile recently, where he was claimed for a notable citizen of Rosario, the birthplace of revolutionist Che Guevara and also one street in Kusturica’s Drvengrad was named after Che Guevara.
Obviously satisfied with the exhibition of young Kusmuk, between other things he also said that in this weird world he lives in, where he can’t differentiate between the left and the right hemisphere, northern and southern, it is good when someone this young reminds him of, not only past times, but also of the things that were good in Bosnia and Herzegovina he used to live in. ‘While looking at these paintings, my first impression is that here comes a painter who uses strong figuration and with his drawing reminds us of the good things in Bosnia and Herzegovina that used to be. From some lightness of Ljubović to good moves of Berber, I’ll say those graphics that Aleksić brought to us, even when we didn’t know about him being popular, and he was more popular in Belgrade than in Sarajevo. So, we have here a young painter who not only refreshed our memory of our previous country, but he also put in front of us the things that are in it. At least I think he brought the essence of the things that were worth in it. It is wonderful that this young man from Pale creates one type of fine art, art experience which has just disappeared in times when painting in Sarajevo was a part of one positive trend, with a mixture of people and nations, and in good controlled country they managed to succeed in painting, in cinematography, in literature,’ said Kusturica. He thinks that we are to face someone who brings in front of us more than just good old times.
‘The thing that is extremely good is, it seems to me, that this man took the best samples of English painting, the best representatives of what Veličković, Mujezinović and others presented in phases and fragments. Besides the sentiment that visits me, with great confusion, about which part of hemisphere I am in,’ said Emir Kusturica and concluded: ‘This exhibition is the awakening of the tradition I was talking about. Congratulations!’