Joint Exhibition of Young Visual Artists Awards Winners
"It is very exciting that the Third Joint Exhibition of the Young Visual Artists Awards (YWAA) is hosted by the Kontekst Gallery and DEZ ORG, Belgrade, Serbia. It is very significant and challenging as well as a tribute to the programme that young artists from nine Central and South Eastern Euroopean countries are exhibiting their prize winning work in Belgrade at this crucial time." Wendy W. Luers, President, The Foundation for a Civil Society, New York City)
Like its two predecessors, the third joint exhibition of the winners of the prize for young artists from Eastern and Central Europe is indeed a colorful undertaking. Artists from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Serbia often employ very diverse manners of expression. Diverse, too, are the themes they address in their works. Their countries of origin have had similar experience with totalitarian regimes. In contrast with the generation of their fathers, however, these young artists have in common both artistic and civic freedom. This is a prerequisite for a critical inquiry into social issues that forms - along with the discarding of traditional painting and sculpture - probably the most striking common trait in the works of artists in the present exhibition. (Tomáš Pospiszyl)
Details
Author(s): the Foundation for a Civil Society New York, Dez.org and Kontekst Belgrade
Publisher: Standard 2, Belgrade
Year: 2008
