II international exhibition "Art in Miniature 2011"

On the II international exhibition "Art in Miniature 2011" exhibition in the selection of the place and found 

my two marquetry miniature

 "Eros in the fingers" 

and

 "Suburbium Petrovaradiniense".

This international exhibition, organized by The Association of Arts, Culture and Tourism "MajdanArt" from Majdanpek, opened on 11 September 2010 and will last until 11 October 2010.

view the exhibition on the  News program, TV Bor, 18 September 2011

Than 279 authors (429 artistic works) exposure is selected 359 artistic works of 232 artists from 24 countries worldwide.

Are selected works from 23 countries of the world: Argentina, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Chile, Dominican Republic, Greece, Croatia, India, Israel, South Korea, Lithuania, Mexico, Germany, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, USA, Slovenia, Thailand, Turkey and Serbia. This year's country focus of Mexico (Universidad Veracruzano, Xalapa,Veracruz state).

Every September since 2001. until today, Majdanpek is a place where acting workshops for artistic creation and artistic development of unique jewelry "MajdanArt". This year's "Majdanart" followed by a workshop of ceramics, as well as the exhibition of "The Birds", author project, Zoran Mitrovic, a final accounting for the opening of the exhibition "Art in Miniature", in which awards were granted about 10 years of "Majdanart" and awarded to artists competition"Art in Miniature".

The Peace Project 2011

My marquetry work, “Seminal peace”, has been selected to be included in The Peace Project 2011, an exhibit and fund-raising event. 

All net proceeds from sales of The Peace Project artwork and related products will be used in Sierra Leone to provide healthcare -  providing 10,000 pairs of crutches and mobility devices to everyone in need throughout this entire post-conflict country. 

Operation Rise 2011

Participating galleries include Gallery 9, Los Angeles (Oktober 22), EXPO Arts Center, Long Beach (November 4), and Gallery TBD, New York (November), and the Showcase Gallery, Santa Ana (Januar 7).

It is necessary to acknowledge the particular one woman.

A Los Angeles woman, Culver City art gallery owner Lisa Schultz, left behind a successful career in advertising to tackle big problems thousands of miles away.

My piece “Seminal peace” was selected as part of the 150 visions of Peace (Peace Project Grid) that will travel with The Peace Project Exhibit.

My Vision of Peace

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Marquetry work "Seminal peace" Peace is trying to express the archetypal child. Also, the archetypal sociality and natural oneness with another being, starting from the mother.

However, the relationship to peace is possible that most vividly expressed sentences Fyodor M. Dostoevsky in the novel "Brothers Karamazov":

"May the sacred ideals are not worth the tears of a child"

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"While there is still time, I hasten to protect myself, and so I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who beat itself on the breast with its little fist and prayed in its stinking outhouse, with its unexpiated tears to 'dear, kind God'! It's not worth it, because those tears are unatoned for. They must be atoned for, or there can be no harmony... I don't want harmony. From love for humanity I don't want it. I would rather be left with the unavenged suffering. I would rather remain with my unavenged suffering and unsatisfied indignation, even if I were wrong. Besides, too high a price is asked for harmony; it's beyond our means to pay so much to enter on it. And so I hasten to give back my entrance ticket, and if I am an honest man I am bound to give it back as soon as possible. And that I am doing. It's not God that I don't accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket." 

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"The Brothers Karamazov"

Part II.

Book V: Pro and Contra

Chapter 4: Rebellion

The challenge of miniatures

1. Eros in the fingers..

Interpret a single image was possible in general - but, from its very small segments to make a meaningful whole was a challenge.
Simply, sensuality and magic of photography of Italian photographer Gabriele Rigon were too strong and beautiful inspiration.
This created a miniature (10 x 7,5 cm) of the technique of marquetry, no bigger than the palm.

Video presentation very concisely expresses the process of making motifs.

2. Suburbium Petrovaradiniense

Another challenge to work Marquetry motif extremely miniature (10×7,5 cm) was in this city – the city of my childhood.
Novi Sad, leaned over the river Danube, at the Petrovaradin.

Video presentation .. city on the palm of your hand.

Marquetry exhibition - Sremski Karlovci

..Sremski Karlovci - March 2011

The exhibition is organized in the Danube town of Sremski Karlovci. oldest secondary center of the Serbian civic culture since 1791, the Centre "Gymnasium of Karlovci" (High School of Karlovci).

Gymnasium of Karlovci 

(Serbian: Карловачка гимназија) is the oldest Serbian gymnasium. It was founded in 1791. It is located in the center of Sremski Karlovci.

History

When Leopold II came on he Habsburg throne official Austrian royal politics towards Serbs in the region partly changed. Mitropolitan Stefan Stratimirović knew how to make use of it and he managed to get permission for founding of a secondary school (Gymnasium) in Sremski Karlovci. Thanks to the mitropolitan, and a rich citizen of Karlovci, Dimitrije Anastasijević Sabov who gave 20 000 forints in silver for the foundation, Serbs in Sremski Karlovci got the first Serbian secondary school (gymnasium) in Serbian history.

Teaching in Gymnasium started at 1st of December, 1791 in former Latin school building. It was a ground-floor, “U” shape floor plan building with both classrooms and teacher's and principal's apartments. Students took lessons in both Latin and German language. First principals were Czech and Slovaks because of lack of educated people among Serbs. The Gymnasium contained two boarding schools - “Blagodjejanije” was meant for penniless pupils and “Konvikt” was for wealthy pupils. In 1852/53 school-year school program had changed and Serbian language was added to program as native language of pupils in Karlovci.

At the end of 19th century pastor of Sremsko-Mitrovački county raised 325 000 crowns in gold for new school building on the wish of his brother, patriarch German Anđelić. Foundations were consecrated in 1890, by patriarch Georgije Branković. The building was designed by the Budapest architect Gyula Partos and by his idea the facade was colored in red and yellow as the admonition to the Serbian medieval ecclesiastical architecture.

..the exhibition

Hodnik u Karlovackoj gimnaziji in Serbia

Sa sremskokarlovačim "matrovskim idama", sa 15.martom, u obeležavanju Dana rodjenja velikana srpskog romantizma i djaka Karlovačke gimnazije, Branka Radičevića, kao deo manifestacije dodeljivanja prestižne pesničke nagrade Brankovog kola “PEČAT VAROŠI SREMSKOKARLOVAČKE”, u holu pred Svečanom salom zdanja gimnazije, priredjena je i autorska izložba mojih intarziranih radova, nastalih u periodu od 1984 do 2011 godine.

Načinjen je još jedan mali korak, da se u jednom tako raskošnom i značajnom zdanju promovišu vrednosti i dometi umetničkog zanatstva.