Events

Opening of the exhibition ‘Distant Gaze: New Objectivity and Realisms in Central Europe (1925-1933)’

Date: 22. 11. 2024
Time: 19:00

The exhibition Distant Gaze: New Objectivity and Realisms in Central Europe (1925-1933) focuses on the historical period of the second half of the 1920s and early 1930s in Central Europe, when new artistic tendencies of modernity prevailed in the fields of art and culture. Visual arts of the 1920s developed the style of new realisms, whose often objective, resigned and ironic expression corresponded with the Zeitgeist of that era. The exhibition thus aims to offer a profound insight into artistic production in the period 1925-1933 in the wider Central European geographical and cultural context, and to give an opportunity to analyse the sociopolitical processes of the time through art, which is, after all, always a mirror of space and time.

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Image: Maksim Sedej, Unemployed, Suburbia, 1933. Collection GBJ

Maksim Sedej, Brezposelni, Predmestje, 1933. Zbirka GBJ.

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