“Libere” (“Free”) is the title of an exhibition opened at the Italian Institute of Culture in Belgrade. It displays the works of three young and promising Serbo-Croatian artists: paintings by Mina Radovic, sculptures by Katarina Pavlovic – both from Belgrade – and photographs by Maja Planinac, born in Pula, Croatia.
It is an all-women’s exhibition which was significantly opened on the 10th of March, on the 70th anniversary of women’s enfranchisement in Italy, and almost concomitantly with the 8th of March, International Woman’s Day. These facts were underscored during the exhibition’s opening ceremony, organised by Confindustria Serbia and the Italian Institute of Culture.
The event was aimed at kicking off a collaboration between the two institutions, which contribute to promote Italian companies and culture in Serbia in their respective fields. The opening ceremony – which was followed by a cocktail offered by a few companies of Confindustria Serbia – was attended by Giuseppe Manzo, the Italian Ambassador in Belgrade, Erich Cossutta, the president of Confindustria Serbia, and Davide Scalmani, the director of the Italian Culture Institute.
Paintings by Mina Radovic, sculptures by Katarina Pavlovic – both from Belgrade – and photographs by Maja Planinac, born in Pula, Croatia
Maja Planinac, Katarina Pavlovic and Mina Radovic are three young Serbian artists. Their fresh take of today’s world is filtered through ideas, emotions and reflections which deserve some consideration in order to understand their relationship with our current times. A photographer, a sculptress and a painter. Their works, free to narrate their stories through an artistic and poetic language, are before our eyes.
“Libere”, the title that recalls the spirit of spontaneous cooperation that inspired the collective exhibition, intends to express the three artists’ will to create and dream, to fight and change, in one word: to innovate. Their training is full of Italian and European art history but what counts most is their capacity to produce the value that gives sense to their cultural promotion as well as to any other human endeavour.
