THE THREAD OF ART BY GRADIMIR SMUDJA

Exhibition opening: Wednesday, 8 June 2022 at 7 pm

The Museum of Applied Art acting director Biljana Jotić will speak at the opening, in the presence of the author.

Cartoonist Dušan Petričić will open the exhibition, while Professor Rastko Ćirić will perform the song Vincent by Don McLean.

Organizer: The Museum of Applied Art

 

“The Thread of Art is a thin and subtle line that connects the matching primordial need for creation before Picasso the Neanderthal and Pablo Picasso. It is the red line of genius and the madness of creative creation. There are thousands and thousands of years of human civilization between the two poles that close the circle”… Gradimir Smudja

The solo exhibition The Thread of Art includes selected comic boards from the eponymous comic book by Gradimir and Ivana Smudja, which was originally published in two volumes in France in 2012 and 2015 under the title Au fil del’Art 1 and Au fil de l’Art 2. Meanwhile in Serbia, System Comics released both works in a single comic book album in 2015. In addition, the exhibition is a Belgrade debut showing original comic boards from comic albums in which Smudja deals with the life and work of painters Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Vincent van Gogh, as well as the mouse-musician Mausart from the author’s text by Slobodan Jovanović. The exhibition is organized within the Salon of Contemporary Applied Art, Museum of Applied Art.

Gradimir Smudja, comic book author, illustrator and cartoonist (1956) was born in Novi Sad, and since 1994 he has lived and worked in Lucca, Tuscany. In the period from 2003 to 2019, he published 11 original comic albums for the French Delcourt publishing house, of which the exhibition features works for the comic albums Cabaret Muse (2007-2008), Vincent and van Gogh – Trois Lunes (2011), The Thread of Art (2012-2015), Mausart (2018) and Mausart in Venice (2019).

Author of the photographs: Jovana Jarebica