An exquisite exhibition of art and poetry by Serbian-Italian artist Milena Pavlovic Barilli is opened in Belgrade last week. Meanwhile a play "Dream about Milena" by BITEF Theater Group in Belgrade featuring a life of this extravagant artist is performed until the end of the month.
Serbian artist Milena Pavlović-Barili may not be a widely-known name, but the painter had a unique and haunting style that combined a personal symbolism with a sense of fantasy, mixing ideas from surrealism, as well as religion, traditional femininity, and visuals from art history. She moved to New York in 1939, leaving Europe with the eruption of World War II, and died suddenly in a horse riding accident in 1945. With her work now in the public domain in Europe, perhaps it may receive renewed attention.
Art by Milena Pavlović Barili (via Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade)
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