Foreword
Respected visitor to my “gallery” of paintings, I wish to say that I belong to the group of artists who believe that their works must be understandable to the onlooker, and must induce a visual, aesthetic and internally emotional experience, an intimate feeling of positive vibrations. Read the full text…
Impressions
In relaying the direct experience of what he has seen, Jovica Prodanović has mainly painted architecture, panoramic scenes and landscapes executed in balanced coloristic harmonies, which he occasionally livens up with contrasting details. Even though he gravitates towards a certain realistic relationship towards reality, these works – paintings which almost never portray people, are infused with light and a lyrical atmosphere – feel almost metaphysical and from the ‘other’ side.
Vera Grujic, Senior curator in the National Museum in Belgrade
From the gallery
Autobiography
The autobiography of Jovica Prodanović is an intimate narrative of life challenges where one seeks comfort in unusual encounters and unexpected expressions of human affection and care.
“The manuscript of Jovica Prodanović belongs to the sort of memoire literature where, alongside some most important and most characteristic points of an individual’s life path, due to the nature of one’s work and historical and political circumstances, the individual becomes a witness to some salient (and in his case including for his people and homeland, Western Slavonia) and tragic events. Therefore, with the creation of this autobiographic memoire, Jovica Prodanović, actually leaves a testimony about a whole generation.” – prof. Slavica Garonja Radovanac PhD Read more…
Exhibitions
- Belgrade 1982, Small Gallery
- Kuwait 1988, Bouchari Gallery
- Belgrade 1989, Federal Secretariat for Foreign Affairs
- Lipik (Croatia) 1990, Hotel Lipik
- Belgrade 1997, House of Đura Jakšić
- Belgrade 2001, Ruski dom
- Belgrade 2002, Sava Centre
- Belgrade 2007, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Belgrade 2008, Jewish Community
- Zagreb 2008, Serbian Cultural Society Prosvjeta
- Krušedol 2009, Krušedol Monastery
- Sremski Karlovci 2009, Museum Night
- Novi Sad 2009, Jewish Community
- Daruvar (Croatia) 1983, Cultural Centre
- Belgrade 2011, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Belgrade 2014, Russian Cultural Centre
Video materials
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