Not a lot of art for me to visit here in Sarajevo - unfortunately the Academy of Art ( which I really wanted to see ) is closed for the students holidays - I did visit the Ars Aevi ( Gallery of Modern Art ) but that was rather disappointing and not worth even photgraphing ... still got a couple more smaller galleries to poke my toes into, so hopefully they will have something to excite me ...
I did get to the Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina to view two exhibitions of interest to me ... but I don't think the Gallery was expecting any visitors today - plus some budgetary restraints - and they would not turn the upstairs gallery lights on for me - so I had to rely on daylight filtering in through the overhead skylights ... !!! ...
Permanent Exhibition : Intimacies of Space
"... every work of art - unless commissioned - originates from the intimate needs of the artist. Regardless of whether it is about a landscape, a still life, a scene from life, or any other motif, the artist was moved and inspired by something.
In some cases the spaces and images have passed through the filter of memory and memories, in other cases they are reduced to associative or faithfully documented. For this exhibition the stylistic period and the technique are not crucial, the personal moment is ... "
Self Portrait 1897 - Vlaho Bukovac
Seated Male Nude 1907 - Pero Popovic
Nude in the Studio 1952 - Nedjeijko Gvozdenovic
Studio Sketch 1928 - Luka Seremet
... gallery ...
Igman 1 1961 - Milorad Corovic
Ocher Landscape 1964 - Kemal Sirbegovic
Two Lands 1971 - Affan Ramic
Winter Landscape 1956 - Bosko Risimovic-Risim
Blooming Plateau 1914 - Gabrijel Jurkic
... detail ...
Dry Stone Walls 1965 - Oton Gliha
... gallery ...
The White Plateau 1965 - Bekir Mesiriic
... detail ...
Landscape from Maglaj 1965 - Salim Obralic
Backyard 1941 - Kosta Hakman
Studio 1975 - Mica Todorovic
From the Studio 1918 - Atanasije Popovic
Artist's Studio 1934 - Vlado Marjanovic
Room 1977 - Esad Muftic
Nude in the Studio 1952 - Nedjliko Gvozdenovic
... gallery ...
Self-Portrait 1953 - Gabrijel Jurkec
From the Interior 1957 - Ordan Petlevski
Interior 1956 - Mica Todorovic
Landscape 1931 - Petar Sain
Landscape with the Rainbow 1955 - Affan Ramic
View from the Studio 1944 - Bozo Nokolic
Space 1965 - Mensur Dervisevic
Beside the Furnace 1930 - Vojo Dimitrijevic
Interior with the Mannequin 1969 - Ibrahim Ljubovic
Terrace 1940 - Mica Todorovic
Entrance to the Garden 1968 - Vilko Gocan
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Then it is downstairs to another exhibition gallery ( and the lights were turned on here ... ) ... this very moving photographic exhibition is on the subject of Children as the Victims of War ... photos of children from the Sarajevo siege of the 1990s and photos of children refugees from the current conflict in Syria ...
photographer from both conflicts is Bosnian - Amel Emric
... gallery ...
Little girl poses behind ruins of her family home
where she returned in 1998
three years after the end of Bosnia's war of 1992-1995
where she returned in 1998
three years after the end of Bosnia's war of 1992-1995
A migrant girl waits to get water from a public water pipe
in a refugee camp in northern Greece
11 April 1916
in a refugee camp in northern Greece
11 April 1916
A distressed Bosnian woman sits with her baby girl
in an improvised open-air refugee camp near Tuzla
15 July 1995
in an improvised open-air refugee camp near Tuzla
15 July 1995
Bosnian women and children queue for bread in Tuzla
during the Bosnian war of 1992-1995
during the Bosnian war of 1992-1995
... gallery ...
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