Language: Serbian and English

Used catalog,  well preserved.

Publisher: Museum of the City of Novi Sad - Novi Sad,

2012

Paperback, 22X22 cm.

60 p. Kunstdruk, Illustrations full color

The exhibition of paintings by Vladimir Bogdanović, entitled, `Memorialis Liber`, was opened on September 13, 2012 in the Foreign Art Collection of the Museum of the City of Novi Sad, Dunavska 29. 

The cycle of paintings Memorialis Liber by Vladimir Bogdanović is a complex and thoughtful artistic expression and a kind of turning point in his work so far. On 49 compositions with themes from the medieval history of the Serbian people, which he perceives as a history of war and suffering, the artist presented his vision of personalities and events that we should remember, in order to be a warning to us.

Opus Memorialis Liber is a gallery of imaginary portraits of rulers and rulers, knights and warriors, widows and nuns from the national medieval history. These are poetic visions of historical figures, which, with a specific artistic procedure and solutions, Bogdanović brought almost to a sign or symbol. A special part of the Memorialis Liber opus consists of compositions depicting battles and battles. The artist presented dynamic inserts from the struggles and conflicts of the two sides, expressing in artistic language all the horror of the act in which a man attacks a man with the intention of destroying him.

The multiplicity of interpretations and readings of Bogdanović's artistic poetics is, of course, inextricably linked with his literary work and thinking about the topics that occupy him. The poetry of this author is in constant harmony with his painting. The painter builds a poetic word in it, and the poet builds a painting in it. Such intertwining is a feature of his entire work. Like allegories with a bit of sadness, sadness, but also irony, the impressive works of the opus Memorialis Liber are strongly connected with the attitude of the author. At the core of the layered artistic and thought structure of the Memorialis Liber opus is a deeply humanistic message: every war and every conflict is a collapse for both the defeated and the victor. Horrified by human suffering and suffering in history, the artist with his weapon - brush and word - rises against the vicious circle of oblivion and warns us.

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