New Moment Gallery from Belgrade this year for the first time participated in the Thessaloniki Contemporary ArtFair 2016. The exhibition of artists from Serbia was seen by around 10,000 visitors from all over Europe.
New Moment Gallery presented itself with an exhibition of the latest works by seven Serbian authors: Petar Mirković, Saša Pančić, Milija Belić, Era Milivojević, Tadija Janičić, Milan Nešić and Slobodanka Stupar.
On the occasion of the great success, the owner of New Moment Gallery Lazar Sakan said: “New Moment Gallery since its foundation fosters contemporary art and helps artists from our country, and the presence of our Gallery at the fair is the best way to present our art outside Serbia.”
After Thessaloniki, New Moment Gallery will continue to participate and promote Serbian artists in other exhibitions around the world.
The setting of the Belgrade gallery in Thessaloniki was composed of works by “our” Marcel Duchamp, as Marina Abramović likes to call him, then works by Era Milivojević from the cycle Man vs. Machine, with reference to the Belgrade Art Nuoveau of the seventies, sculptures by Milija Belić, as well as installations by Slobodanka Stupar.
Through a parallel with Eduardo Chillida, the Gallery presented recognizable work from the cycle Strings by Saša Pančić and works of the last phase of the magical trio of Novi Sad from Chinatown, Tadija Janičić, Petar Mirković and Milan Nešić.
Co-author of the exhibition was Bojan Muždeka.
This year’s Thessaloniki Contemporary ArtFair was attended by 25 galleries from nine countries – Austria, Greece, France, Japan, Israel, Italy, Russia and Serbia, and the New Moment exhibition stood out with the distinctive and original artistic style of its authors.
The fair was marked by lectures by art historians and professors from the University of Athens Manos Stefanidis. Besides lectures, there were also exhibitions of art brut (whose market is growing) and works by Mario Prasinos from private collections.
Great attention was caused by the early issues of the New Moment magazine which gathered the cultural elite and which represented the only refuge for creative people from the region in turbulent times.
