Naslov
Forgotten Non-Aligned Past – Asian, African and Latin American Modern Art in the Museum Collections of former Yugoslav republics

Autori
Kolešnik, Ljiljana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, ostalo, znanstveni

Skup
Museum Global - Multiple Perspectives on Art

Mjesto i datum
Düsseldorf, Njemačka, 20.02.2016. - 22.02.2016

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
post-war modernism ; non-aligned movement ; Socialist Yugoslavia ; cultural exchange

Sažetak
In the collections of museums there is a significant number of modernist artworks by the Latin American, Asian and African artists that belong to a completely forgotten heritage of former socialist State and its engagement with the Non-Aligned Movement. Contrary to the dominant public opinion, artworks given to President Tito during his frequent visits to the non-aligned countries and others that entered the collections of prominent art museums following important international exhibitions, play almost insignificant role in composing that heritage. The majority of paintings, sculptures and graphic works, to which we could apply such qualification were donated to the local communities in the course of numerous international art colonies, held from the beginning of 1960s to the early 1980s at different locations of the former socialist state. Often connected to the natural sources of art materials – stone quarries, old forests rich with variety of wood types, natural clay deposits, etc.– they were well funded, provided a rather solid technical and financial conditions for art production, and attracted artist from all over the world, particularly from the non-aligned countries. Thanks to their practice to express gratitude for organizing efforts of the hosts by leaving some of their artworks to a local town museums, examples of Venezuelan abstraction, Pakistani informalist paintings or Indian modernist sculpture, are dispersed all over the geopolitical space of the former Yugoslavia, and compose a group of nearly 2.000 modernist artworks from the Latin American, Asian and African countries that were during the last twenty five years left to complete oblivion. Observed in relation to the notion of the "unwanted heritage" of socialism, and partially presented at this conference, they will be discussed in terms of cultural politics framing their acquisition, but also in terms of the current political situation affecting the possibility of their presentation to contemporary museum audience.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Informacijske i komunikacijske znanosti, Povijest umjetnosti

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