The exhibition entitled "Japonism in Banat: 1869-1969" will be officially opened in the Small Hall of the Zrenjanin National Museum on Wednesday, May 16, 2018, starting at 19 p.m., as part of this year's "Museums for 10" event. The author of the exhibition and accompanying catalog is Dejan Vorgić, curator - art historian of the Zrenjanin Museum.
The National Museum of Zrenjanin has a long tradition of preserving and nurturing Japanese culture in the area of Banat. As early as May 1945, right after the Second World War, the curator Lazar Nikolić and the painter Vasa Pomorišac designed and realized the permanent exhibition of the Museum, which included objects made in Japan. Many years later (2005) this will be repeated thanks to the long-time senior curator of the applied art collection, Mileva Šijaković. In 2009, the Art Department of the Museum organized with great success the "Days of Japanese Culture", which reminded the public both of Japanese art in the past and of its contemporary aspirations.
The exhibition "Japaneseism in Banat: 1869-1969" represents a logical sequence of this manifestation, and the immediate reason for it is first of all the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the first, and still valid for Serbia, agreement on cultural cooperation between the then FNR Yugoslavia and Japan. This exhibition, on the one hand, aims to present movable cultural goods that come from Japan, or were created under its influence, and are kept in Banat public and private collections. On the other hand, she explores the cultural and artistic ties between Banat and Japan before the official signing of the treaty on cultural cooperation in 1968.
The exhibition and the accompanying catalog present to the public and expertly process 43 objects or wholes, made in Japan or created under the influence of Japanese culture, of which 22 are owned by the Zrenjanin National Museum. One item each was borrowed from the Pancevo National Museum, the Kikinda National Museum, the Žarko Zrenjanin City Public Library and the UK Contemporary Gallery Ečka. The remaining items come from Zrenjanin's private collections, among which those owned by Boško Zakin stand out.
Among the exhibited objects that come from prominent Banat families, it is necessary to highlight an armchair from the Yokohama region with almost sculptural dragons in woodcarving, a vase by the painter Sozan made for the Kinkozan manufactory from Kyoto, and a bronze plate with a representation of a samurai on a horse. Among the domestic authors who worked under the influence of Japanism, the pioneer of Serbian and Yugoslav design Dragutin Inkiostri Medenjak (1866-1942) is represented with works such as a three-wing decorative screen and a design for a postcard issued on the occasion of the Falcon landing in Bečkerek.
The exhibition will be available to the public of the Zrenjanin Museum until June 21, 2018.
Source: Zrenjanin National Museum
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