20.03.2014.

Exhibition "Milos Babic, Balance of Signs" opens

In the Gallery of the Central Military Club, the exhibition "Milos Babic, balance Balance of Signs", organised by"Odbrana" Media Center in collaboration with the Museum of the City of Subotica has been opened tonight.

Speakers at the opening ceremony were Ljubica Vukovic Dulic, art historian and curator of the Museum of the City of Subotica, Bojana Popovic, an art historian and museum consultant of the Museum of Applied Arts in Belgrade and Lieutenant Colonel Slavoljub Markovic, Director of Odbrana MC, who, welcoming the audience, stressed that cooperation of many institutions within a project always shows good results.

- The exhibition is the confirmation of the concept of Odbrana Media Centre that in cooperation with institutions of culture in our country takes a look in many collections, and reveals the values that have been somewhat forgotten and hidden from the public, Lieutenant Colonel Markovic said, adding that this is a unique opportunity to remind the public of the work of art of Milos Babic.

Ljubica Vukovic Dulic thanked the contributors for “this important project", as Babic’s works have not been exposed since the eighties.

- Legacy of Milos Babic is one of the two largest legacies in Subotica City Museum, and has 482 pieces. I sincerely hope that in the forthcoming period there will be more to talk about his painting and graphic design, because quality can be achieved only through such cooperation of several institutions. The exhibition shows a number of Babic’s different creative cycles, but we have tried to show his work as more comprehensive, said Vukovic Dulic.

Bojana Popovic officially opened the exhibition recalling that exactly 77 years ago Milos Babic had his first solo exhibition in Belgrade, exactly in the building of the former Warrior’s House which is today of the Central Military Club of the Serbian Armed Forces.

- He presented Then 11 of his paintings, some of which you can see in this exhibition. Before that, the same exhibition was seen by the residents of Subotica, so that we can conclude that Belgrade and Subotica were very important cities for the creativity of Milos Babic. I would advise anyone who knew him to discover his work again, with satisfaction, and the visitors who meet his work for the first time, to fall in love with his work this spring, the art historian said.

Numerous works of Milos Babic (1904-1968), painter and graphic designer, made for film companies and advertising agencies, used to adorn newspapers and gables of many buildings. Babic's works of applied art are considered valuable achievements of the interwar Belgrade graphic design. Stylistic propinquity, similarity of the composition and motives of the paintings, marked his designer oeuvre and cycle of creation between the two wars.

The exhibition will be open until 12 April.