Tonight at 18h, “An Aspect of Contemporary Photobooks from Turkey”, FUAM Limited Edition Photobooks exhibition, in Belgrade University Library, Bulevar kralja Aleksandra 71.

Curated By Volkan Kızıltunç

Why do we need photobooks ?
“verba volant scripta manent”
Tuna Uysal

How can photography, which is exhibited on the walls as a singular object by galleries or magazines of the modern age, take up the form of a book, even though the communication phenomenon regards photography as a language? This can be answered with a statement by Quentin Bajac, curator of photography department of MOMA; “The photo is not hung on the wall anymore. The book form constitutes the basis of the photo. We should be aware of this and cooperate with museum libraries. Our surroundings are filled with many examples that consist of this form and we need to collect them”.

“FUAM” (Photography Practice and Research Centre) aimed to respond to the “PHOTOBOOK” phenomenon, which directs the forms of production and sharing in the art world. The artists had the opportunity to work with and present their own photographs to the outstanding artists of the photobook world such as Ania Nalecka, Rafal Milach, Nico Baumgarten, Michela Palermo, Matthieu Charon, Remi Faucheux, Marcus Schaden, Frederic Lezmi, Calin Kruse, Valentina Abenovelli and Alex Bochetto. The photobook as one of the basic forms of photography is of great importance in terms of being the main project of FUAM. The first goals of this project were to focus on the production of photobooks, which have become a rising value in the last few years, in an academic setting, to bring various artists to the art world through new productions and to establish a center for gathering this accumulation.

With the support by Yunus Emre Enstitüsü – Turski kulturni centar Beograd

Tonight 2nd April 2018, photography exhibition Ocurrencia by Valérie de Marotte Boned, at 19:30, Бартcелона gallery, Belgrade Design District

Valérie de Morotte Boned was born in Paris in 1967.
From 2008 to 2015 founder and co-director Galeria TAGOMAGO, Barcelona / Paris

From then she participated in different Group and Solo exhibitions, mainly in Paris and Barcelona, and now for first time in Belgrade.

“Each time we strive towards totality, we realize that we lack it. Nothing is ever total. If this is the case, then photographs are proof of the abiding incompleteness of the world; they are the result –the excreta-of a performance by the body heading for unattainable nirvana. Photography is nothing but ourselves and our world”.

Kaji Taki (1928-2011), Japanese photographer and critic, Co-founder of PROVOKE

Sponsored by Smokvica

Exit – exhibition by Boro Rudić, today 2nd April 2018, at 18:30, Galerija Grafički kolektiv, Obilićev venac 27

“Exit” is composed of 40 photographs developed of papers hand-made for this exhibition specifically. Photographs are divided into 4 groups, and entitled Entry, Messages, Exit and Finish.

Prof. dr. Jasna Koteska, text excerpted from the book introduction of “Exit”:

…Rudić’s territory is connected with vectors of abandonment, hence the book’s title is “Exit”. But that is not the abandonment of territory, but rather an entry into a new territory. That’s why his photographs are replete with signs, emissions of signals, rail-tracks, roads, steps, streets, entries, fences, as they are all signals intended for seekers. The main objective of these signals is to be aux aguets, to be on the watch, as they require a good eye. Rudić’s camera does not capture in panic, but instead he captures wrinkles of landscapes, lines of rocks, as a revelation of a new spacial syntax. Photographs from “Exit” do not portray the culture, but certain spectral dimension of reality, like Van Gogh’s yellow sky or yellow fields, or like Munch’s hay. This does not mean that Rudić is traipsing into other art form, i.e. painting. He remains in photography, yet is simultaneously out if it with one foot, striding into painting….

Rock Moments, rock photography exhibition, tonight 31th March 2018 at 19h, Božidarac 1947

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For eleven years now, Rock Moments has brought you the best photos from current rock concerts in Serbia and the region. After the successful exhibits in 2017, the celebrations of the 10th anniversary of the exhibition in the Art Gallery of Stara Kapetanija in Zemun and the exhibition, which we in cooperation with the O3on project and the Pro3or Gallery realized in December 2017 – “50 Years of Concert Rock Photography in Serbia” ( 100 photographs – 25 authors, from 1966 to 2017) we now have the honor to participate in the festival Belgrade Photo Month in the Bozidarac Gallery.