Painters, Warriors, Witnesses

Painters / Warriors / Witnesses is a research and exhibition project featuring over 100 paintings of official war painters and an almost equal number of photographs by official photographers in the Serbian Army. The exhibition, that will be presented to the Australian public in September, will also include the works of war correspondents and photo-amateurs, women painters, volunteer nurses, as well as the works of other artists who were participants in the war, either as conscripts or volunteers.

Exhibition Author Ms Zana Gvozdenovic and SANU President Mr Vladimir Kostic Source: Courtesy of Zana Gvozdenovic

"This exhibition illustrates the broad, diverse and dynamic Serbian art scene of the mid-1920s, built on impossible paradox. In the midst of destruction and desperation there occurred an artistic flourishing of a specific style of Serbian Impressionism – a painting style born in exile that reached its pivot," said the author Ms Zana Gvozdenovic for SBS Serbian.

"The exhibition will showcase the works from numerous museum and archival collections, such as: the Museum of Contemporary Art, Military Museum, Museum of the City of Belgrade, the National Museum in Smederevska Palanka, the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments of the City of Belgrade, the National Library of Serbia, Library of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the “Svetozar Marković” University Library, the “Matica Srpska” Gallery in Novi Sad, National Museum Šabac and National Museum in Belgrade, as well as Imperial War Museum London and Milwaukee Art Museum. "

Miloš Golubović, Farewell, my children, 1915/1916, (collection Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade)

 A virtual tour through the exhibition is available at the link.