The author’s exhibition of Madlene Zepter « My naive » in the « Madelena » palace in a month has seen more than 2,000 visitors – culture

Fine art from Kovačica Which of 2012 is located in the National Register of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Serbia, which Belgrade enrolled in UNESCO representative list of intangible cultural heritage of the world, which opened the path to the new popularity and review of naive painting and review of naived painting.

Among the exhibitions that attracted the audience with representativeness of the audience in the « My naive » in Dedinje, which has seen more than 2,000 visitors since mid-March, which was extended until 15. April.

In the space of the greenhouse, the Palace « Madelena », for the first time due to « My naive », is a « combination of art and nature », is exposed to the Kovačica, Jagodina and Hlebina,, including world-famous names like Zuzana Halops, Martina JonashaJanos Mesaros, Eve Husarik, Pavel Cicke, Jana Husarika, Due Petrov Morar, Josip Generalic, Antuna Buhanec, Đura Jančić … Among them further found Sombor Navila Sava Stojkov.

The author of the exhibition and the catalog is Madelena Zepter, the founder of the palace of the art carrying her name. And her, as he explains for today, the enrollment of Kovačik naive painting on UNESCO World List encouraged to prepare this exhibition. Especially as « Serbia’s first country in UNESK registers of the National Cultural Heritage Insecution of a national minority, emphasizing its cultural significance, which would not be due to naive painting from this space did not preserve its original form. »

– This is absolutely my setting, created without any consultation with experts – art historians, including my preface in the catalog. I first reminded that among my pictures also has Artist Naivača. They were purchased for the past twenty years. Not a lot, a dozen: two ionas, Hallups, Knjazović, Pilh … there were several painters and more parts bought during the years on the auctions of my auction house Madlart – Balan, Fejes, Rašić, Paluška. The Croatian Naive was represented with three, four canvases of Rabuzin, Bahunec and Grgeca. Suddenly I had a whole wealth of colors, motives and the most recognized old artists Naivac. These newer works, especially occurred after 2020. I personally elected their strength of expression, going to the Kovačica, or by purchasing with our galerists. Of course, with several departures at the Museum of Naive Art in Jagodina – says Madlena Zepter.

The exhibition « My naive » includes various stylistic groups of naive painting, which first developed in the Podravina’s village of Hljerina in Croatia, Pomoravian Oparić and Banatska Kovačica first. The setting in the « Madelena » palace makes pictures with various thematic content, although without formal academic education, instinctive, which has served simplicity and spontaneity, while their painting relies on scenes from everyday life, nature, tradition, folk customs, Folklore … « Connects them chronological thread that guides visitors through creativity of several generations of naivača painters from the Kovačica and its surroundings, to Pomoravljava and Croatia.

Artistians believe that in the case of naive painting in Kovačica, « everything began from winter leisure » 1939, when Martin Paluška and Jan Sokol began to paint, and three years later he joined Michal. After the Second World Work, the Group also received the fourth member of Vladimir Boboš with which he establishes the Art Section at the Cultural and Enlightening Society « Pokrok » – « Progress » in which Martin Jonaš and Jan Knjazovic entered. They started copying of famous pictures and postcards, but the need for these self-taught artists prevail their natural talent and technical inserts express their own artistic expression.

The setting of « My naive » moves from the images from the first period of naive art for the Kovačica, which belongs to the Male Communications of the direction: Martin Paluški, Jan Knjazovic and Martin Jonash. « Rich color spectrum taken from nature and folk costumes, these artists painted its various aspects, for example, a characteristic performances of human figures in relation to the background, the expression is a thoughtful painting philosophy. He his actors on The canvas image, or in turn, with a small head and oversized arms and legs, stressing the harder work of the peasants, which is recognizable and authentic, « Madelena » says in the palace « Madelena ».

The Palao adds that « post-war authorities were gently viewed the art that literally came from the people, which further influenced the naive to get significant and experienced to the 1960s and the 1970s. Vek.
« It’s a » golden age « , time of full popularity not only in our already world-famous and evaluated women. Zuzana Halups creates a world full of children, and her favorite motifs are also winter landscapes, as well as The Evangelist Church in Kovačica … from Kovačica, a large painter in Novi Bečej is born in the symbolic theme of the horse, painted with the fiction motifs, and Pavel Cicka dedicated to this motive. His horses are strength, Elegance proportions, powers and beauty, which can be seen in the Fig. ‘Nakupac Horse’, «  » Madelena « is noted.

They point out that the setting also shows that « a large number of authorship chronicles of the idealized landscapes of forest areas, meadows, arable land, hills, vineyards, but also yards of houses and interior, as well as vivid genre scenes from life and tradition of the gender. A special place as a painting motif has a portrait, while architectural facilities with the exception of rural churches and black and white art, Emerika Fejesh, rarely report as a motive on Naivača payments.

« Naive art is one of the most uncompentic and most original artistic directions in ours, these images, are characterized by a colorful color palette, a flat-fueled professional posture compensated and wealthy spontaneous painting instinct and playful imagination. These works are visual records of human condition, life experiences and emotional humanities are known worldwide. The appearance of fantastic motives in naive fiction and folk trades, magic rites, motives, legends and fairy tales as in Janoš Mesarosh’s creativity, « said Madelena Zepter in the preface the catalog.

Hleobin school

The establishment of the Hleabin school, as they explain in the Palace « Madelena » is associated with the academic painter of Krsta Hegedušić, Paris students and professors of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He is around 1930. In Hlebinema, he taught peasants painting. It was a kind of experiment, whose results were unexpectedly fruitful and artistic far-reaching. « The notion of bread school means the works of three generations of peasant origin from the village of Slee-Colors on the glass, characterizable in the fact that is a picture of the breaded school, the influence of the bread school grew, first of the appearance of large names as They are Joseph Generalić, Franja Filipović, Petar Grgec, whose works are partly an interesting partial expression of Đura Jančić, which is the founders of Croatian Naive, « Madelena Zepter explains the catalog of the exhibition » My Naive « .