VODIČ kroz likovnu zbirku - Muzej grada Zenice
Art collection guide - City museum of Zenica

Author(s): Lejla Osmanić, Lejla Sarajlić
Contributor(s): Muhamed Tunjić (Photographer), Kamiah Karović (Translator)
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts
Published by: Muzej grada Zenice
Keywords: Zenica; April Salon; Fine Arts;Exhibition;
Summary/Abstract: Visual Arts Association Zenica was founded in 1974 as a Visual Arts Branch Association Zenica. Its members were – Muhamed Bajramovic, Mirko Maric, Tomislav Perazic, Ljubomir Percinlic and Stjepan Totic. Three years later Anto Kajinic and Goran Raner also joined this group and in 1978 Irfan Handukic did the same. In 1984 the Association was also enriched by Jelenko Butina and Miroslav Šetka while Anto Cabraja and Dajana Suk entered the Association in 1988. This Branch Association acted as a self-managing association of the Visual Arts Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Their first exhibition took place in 1974 and it was until 1988 that the Association used to have its own regular exhibitions. At the first joint exhibition in 1975 Tomislav Perazic and Ljubomir Percinlic presented their works. That year and in the year to follow also the following members of this Association presented their works of art: Muhamed Bajramovic, Mirko Maric, Tomislav Perazic, Ljubomir Percinlic and Stjepan Totic. Visual Arts Circle in Zenica, as the critics of former Yugoslavia used to call mostly the academically educated painters, among which the oldest ones were Stjepan Totic and Tomislav Perazic, had performed very intense exhibition activities even before the Visual Arts Branch Association was established and before opening of the Visual Arts Gallery Zenica. The joint exhibitions were called „April Salon“ and before the gallery was opened the permanent place for exhibitions had been the Exhibition Pavilion of the Cultural Centre Zenica. The first „April Salon“ took place in the above mentioned pavilion in 1972 and it lasted from 10th to 25th April. It was organized to celebrate 12th April – the Liberation Day of Zenica. Ever since the joint exhibitions of visual artists from Zenica, and after the recent war, also of the academic artists of Zenica Doboj Canton, have been held and named „April Salon“ on the anniversary of this important date of the City of Zenica. This date is the date of closing the international cultural festival „Zenica Spring“. The exhibition of the „April Salon“ in the above mentioned year was moved to the Exhibition Pavilion of the Cultural Centre in Banja Luka.

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