Intimacies of space: exterior

Completely contrary to the intimate concept
of interior, the landscape within this exhibition is intended to raise the
question of how the work of art is created and to invite visitors to active
observation.

Two probably most famous landscapes of our
collection, "Blooming Plateau" (Gabrijel Jurkić) and "Landscape" (Petar Šain), were taken as starting points. The idea was to raise questions
and possibilities, through the art works of authors of later generations,  of how and whether a work of art affects
another one – whether this particular art work (or its image) made an impact,
whether it is a typical Bosnian landscape or is it a concept of a landscape
that is imprinted in our consciousness?

With this segment of the exhibition we do
not give answers to the above mentioned questions, but we kindly invite
everyone to find them for themselves.

Blooming Plateau is the most popular work of art from the collection of the National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Gabrijel Jurkić (Livno, BiH, 1886 - Livno, BiH, 1974) begun working on this painting with the beginning of the World War I.

Dry stone is a building method by which structures are constructed from stones without any mortar to bind them together. Oton Gliha (Črnomelj, Slovenia, 1914 – Zagreb, Croatia, 1999) managed to convey the rhythm of dry stone walls, to suggestively express his experience of the landscape, while creating abstract works.