Instituto de Italiano di Cultura Belgrado

4th – 25th of April 2017.

Exhibition curated by Natasha Christia

TommasoTanini’s H. said he loved us draws on the story of the GDR and the German Ministry for State Security (STASI) to explore the feelings of oppression and dread caused by living in a state of constant suspicion and diffidence. Following three years of travels and investigations in Germany, the project mingles archival and documentary research with a personal and subjective photographic investigation stepped on literary references and fictional narratives. An elegantly oppressive allegory of authoritarianism and domination, H. said he loved us was originally inspired by Corrado Alvaro’s dystopic novel “L’Uomo è Forte”. Published back in 1938, the book was a ferocious critique towards totalitarianism and its abuses of paranoia and instilled fear to control the masses.

The images of H. said he loved us are immersed in a world devoid of names and references. Portraits of five Stasi victims (all betrayed by people they trusted and loved, family members and friends), alongside anonymous corners and trivial details of East Germany cityscapes generate an unresolved tension between the act of spying and being spied upon. These pictures, partly cinematic and partly forensic, resonate with the sense of unease that pervades Alvaro’s book. They become a sinister background of the documentary material recollected by Tanini and enigmatic
monuments echoing the feelings of the people he encountered during his research. Emerging from this austere landscape as a loose, anonymous patchwork of documents, autobiographical notes, found images and portraits, the stories of the STASI victims are reactivated as fragmented albeit vivid and interactive accounts.Structured as a rich mosaic of traces and suggestions, H. said he loved us subtly warns us about the cyclical and evil nature of any form of totalitarianism, without imposing any unilateral vision or clichés. At the same time, it brings onto the surface the ghosts of a dreadful historical reality that has ruled GDR and not only – a reality that has been deliberately excluded from the founding myths of the post Cold-War Era European unity.

Gallery SKC New Belgrade

3rd – 7th of April 2017.

Goran Zlatkovic was born in 1972 in Belgrade, where he lives and works. He is Graduate Economist, who is now on senior year master academic studies in visual arts – photography at the European University, the New Academy of Arts in Belgrade in the class of Professor Dr. Milan Aleksic. Photographer of the magazine „Diplomacy&Commerce“ , PR of the agency Color Press Group (CMC), associate photographer magazine „Gloria“ and „Lepota i zdravlje“. Zlatkovic is photographer for Embassy of Canada, Brasil,Argentina, Belgium and Lebanon in Belgrade, Belgrade Jeunesses Musicales, Music school „Josip Slavenski“, Basketball club „Radnicki“, „Pompea“ (Italy). He participated in several group exhibitions in Belgrade and in the gallery Student Cultural Center Kragujevac. Exhibition „More than journalism“ consists of photographs from the diplomatic receptions, taken during the period from Jun 2016 to January 2017. The artist's need to see people and events through his eyes, to rise above formalities and patterns, resulted in photographs that represent something new, different in the world of journalism in our region. It seems that photojournalism reinforces power with new elements, slick, spontaneity and certainly the courage.

Gallery Tower on Gardos, Zemun
from 1 April to 18 April 2017

The very title of Beauty and the Beast is recognized as a source of contrast. A
woman body seen eye Ljubiša Tešić represents and expresses the beauty of women
as eternal inspiration in many aspects and on the other hand it also shows the woman
body through the exercising of professional boxing. Throughout the exhibition of 24
photographs, 30×40 cm, rotate and compete and compare, the beauty of women
and aggression, expressed through sport that model, Ana Nikolic professionally
engaged.

„GUILTY PLEASURES”

“Guilty Pleasures” exhibition presents a wide arsenal of bizarre pleasures that people feel guilty about. Photographed in their own environment, in their homes, the subjects participating in the project reveal in front of the camera, sometimes hushed and hesitating, other times theatrical and demonstrative, what they normally hide from the eyes of others at all costs: situations, habits, rituals or various objects that constitute props for their guilty pleasures. Photographer Odeta Catana succeeds in capturing these pleasures with naturalness, without creating the sensation of an intrusive interference in the intiacy of her subject.

“Guilty Pleasures” was created within a six months art residency for British Square Magazine where it was first published in issue 5.1 (http://www.squaremag.org/501-FR-GB.pdf). The project and various interviews were subsequently published in numerous newspapers and magazines in Germany (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Stern, Huffington Post), the United Kingdom, Italy (Repubblica Il Post) and the USA (Cosmopolitan). The entire project can be viewed on the artist’s website: www.odetacatana.com

In collaboration with Rumanian Cultural Institute and Embassy of Rumania to the Republic of Serbia

Sponsors: Cooperativa Agrícola de Garriguella