Nicoletta Rousseva (Ph.D. 2022) publishes “The Outsider: Vladan Radovanović at Belgrade’s Museum of Contemporary Art” in ARTMargins
VLADAN RADOVANOVIĆ: AHEAD OF HIS TIME AND BEYOND / VLADAN RADOVANOVIĆ: ISPRED VREMENA I IZVAN, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, BELGRADE, MARCH 28 – SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
Ours is an age of inclusive, pluralistic categories. For the discipline of art history, this is evident in the commonplace use of terms like modernisms and global contemporary art. Capacious and limitless, these terms seek to dispel myths of quality and canonicity, to flatten hierarchies between centers and peripheries, and to resolve asymmetries between the local and the global with little more than the use of a prefix or a plural. The retrospective exhibition, Vladan Radovanović: Ahead of his Time and Beyond on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade (MoCAB) this past summer (March 28 – September 10) does not set out to broaden the scope of global modernisms and global contemporary art, or to undermine these critical categories per se. Nevertheless, by virtue of the artwork and artistic sensibilities on display, the exhibition illuminates the limits of inclusivity and lays bare enduring frictions between the local and the global within the sphere of contemporary art.
READ the review here:
https://artmargins.com/the-outsider-vladan-radovanovic-at-belgrades-museum-of-contemporary-art/