FFA Student Annual Exhibition - WE CANNOT GET RID OF ART
On Saturday, July 2, 2022, the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Montenegro will organize the Annual Exhibition of final year students (masters and undergraduate studies) entitled "WE CANT GET RID OF ART".
The exhibition of final year MASTER students will be presented in Gallery 42 in Cetinje at 19:00, while the exhibition of final year undergraduate students will be exhibited in the Faculty of Fine Arts, where at 20:00 there will be a grand opening and award ceremony for outstanding students.
The sponsors of this years awards are: the University of Montenegro, the Ministry of Culture and Media of Montenegro, the National Museum of Montenegro and the "Ćano Koprivica" Foundation.
The annual student exhibition, which has traditionally been held since the founding of the Faculty, has not been held for the past three years due to the relocation to a new building and the corona virus pandemic.
This year, the exhibition will be held for the first time in the new building of the Faculty so that all studios of basic and master studies will have their own settings and be open to the public, which will provide direct insight into the academic offer and work program of all study programs and modules studied at faculty.
This years exhibition is accompanied by a specially designed - comprehensive catalog that brings together all the works and graduations of graduate students.
In the accompanying catalog of the exhibition, art historian Dr. Svetlana Racanović points out the following:
"True artistic education, emancipation and self-realization know no boundaries or set time limits between the period of youthful acquisition of artistic knowledge and skills and more mature professionalization of their work. True artistry, becoming an artist and becoming an artist is a constant, connected and self-producing life process that acquires resistance to fixed positions and the illusion of security, to pettiness and calculations, to "lines of weakest resistance" and "catching shortcuts", to grandiose ambitions, to harmful conformism but also the logic of sacrifice, to phallic interest associations and trading in ones own artistic ideas and personal integrity.
Genuine art does not require massive artistic mobilizations and revolutionary actions, nor profitable advertising campaigns and launches into the "world of the rich and famous." In the beginning and in the end, in times of exacerbation of crises and in times of their easing, at all times, true art means nurturing ones sensitivity, openness to feel, understand and accept, as equally important, everything that surrounds us, hurts and excites, disturbs and gives us peace, which establishes our life horizon. That world and life should be spoken of in a living artistic language, the language of today. Thus, the zone of our own pleasure, our own freedom and found meaning is fenced, cultivated and defended, and that zone is our only possession in times of a great alienation. ”