FESTIVAL POSTER STUDENT EXHIBITION – UNIVERSITY OF ARTS IN BELGRADE – FACULTY OF APPLIED ARTS 2024

Opening: 23rd September 2024 at 11.30 a.m.

Foundation for Youth Culture "Danilo Kiš"

Festival Posters: an image of life that is beautiful, surprising and deep

The word Awareness is among the oldest words in Slavic and Serbiаn language. It is derived from the verb meaning to observe. Accompanied by a suffix, it forms the Serbian word for Theatre itself.

Unlike painting, film or sculpture whose physicality remains temporally independent, theatre and its posters are closely tied to the date and place of actual theatrical performance itself. According to Jean Divignaud, the theatre (and its corresponding poster) is a stage for a specific event. In contact with the viewer, it becomes a special, living entity – a reality.

In dealing with festival posters (a collection of symbols and concise, short messages) we won’t have to figure out everything all at once – unlike Billy Pilgrim (the protagonist of Kurt Vonnegut’s famous anti-war novel Slaughterhouse-Five) on planet Tralfamadore.

With the festival posters laid before us (even without a particular recurring theme apart from the children's festival and place of origin), observing them all at once, they evoke – just like the symbols and messages from Tralfamadore – “an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep”.

Zdravko Mićanović

The posters were designed by 3rd year students at Belgrade’s Faculty of Applied Arts. Department: Applied Graphics; Modules: Graphics and Book and Animation; Subject: Illustration.

Mentoring professor: Boban Savić Geto

Jury:

Jasmina Jovančić Vidaković - Museum educator and senior curator at Subotica Contemporary Art Gallery

Ljiljana Dinić – curator/director

Mirjana Šormaz Mitrić - Graduated graphic designer

Mile Tasić - Art critic