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The exhibition Sport in Art. The Art of Sport
The exhibition “Sport in Art. The Art of Sport” includes over 40 artworks and items created in the period between 1858 and 2018. The exhibition will feature selected pieces from the collection of the Gallery of Matica Srpska, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Republic of Srpska, the Museum of Yugoslavia, the “Sava Šumanović” Art Gallery in Šid, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, the Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the Heritage House in Belgrade. The selected works are signed by artists Sava Šumanović, Ivan Radović, Petar Dobrović, Ivan Tabaković, Steva Todorović, Petar Omčikus, Dušan Todorović, Bojan Bem, Uroš Đurić, and Tomislav Peternek, as well as Henry Moore, Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gottfried Helnwein, and James Rosenquist. The public will also have the chance to see sports equipment, medals, and photographs from the collection of the Museum of Yugoslavia, and artistic photographs from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, which testify to the participation of Serbian and Yugoslav athletes in previous Olympic Games and the organisation of the leading sporting events in the former state.
The exhibition will also present, using new modern technologies, the oldest depiction of sport in the famous painting First Serbian Gymnastics Society from 1858 painted by Stevan Todorović from the collection of the National Museum of Serbia.
Venue: Gallery of Matica Srpska
The programme can be found on the organiser’s website: www.galerijamaticesrpske.rs
