The exhibition of student works Magnitudo presents sublimation of acquired knowledge, during two years of work within the compulsory subjects Drawing 1, 2, 3 and 4, and culmination through elective courses “Development of art elements through realistic and abstract expression through drawings and paintings” and “Abstract art expression of form , colors and movements ”. Students made an upgrade in terms of technique and creation. Using techniques known to them – pencils, ink, wood and watercolor paints, they managed, often outside the given framework, to make experiments, and through them to reach completely new results through sketches, drawings, watercolors, collages and assemblages.
The exhibition was opened on 24.09.2020. at 7 pm in the Sarajevo City Hall in the words of the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, University of Sarajevo, prof. dr. Erdin Salihović, whose text we are transmitting in its entirety.
“For many years now, I have been following thematically diverse exhibitions of student works, organized by colleagues from the freelance drawing room. Let’s say only the latter, held in the History Museum, then in the Center of Culture and Youth in Jelićeva, or the current one in the City Hall, have a common denominator: they came from the inexhaustible positive energy of teachers and gifted students. We used to sit with boards in our student days and draw mahala streets, roofs and docks. The following generations transmitted the contours of coastal and island towns on paper. This exhibition takes us back to Sarajevo, with the central motif of a prismatic giant with yellow-red belts, which nestled in an unusual position in a fragmented bazaar anthill, which gives it a distinctive contrast and originality on a global scale.
When Paržik, unjustifiably left out by the author, conceived the town hall, and Wittek and Iveković managed to finish it, a building sprang up which, although designed in eclecticism, represents an escape from everything conventional. As much as the people of Sarajevo watched the opening of the then technological giant, a kind of symbol of a powerful monarchy, with understandable dissatisfaction in April 1896, a century later they watched helplessly as flaming tongues swallowed something that eventually became part of themselves.
When Sarajevo is approached from the most beautiful, rock-cut, eastern road, the European non-national interpretation of the Orient appears before our eyes. One of our more important life missions is to try to draw young people into the magical world of architecture and art, and to teach them to look at and experience the architectural environment from a personal perspective.
And whether it is exhibited airy watercolors, expressive drawings in the shower or abstract collages, inspired by destructive outbursts of hatred, the work of our students radiates individual emotion. Just as stylistic diversity is imprinted in this secular temple, so in the works one can recognize indications of cubism and abstraction, transformed into original artistic expression.
I recently wrote in a preface that the times of crisis, which we are all experiencing together today, bring with them some positive vibes. They bring to the surface the creativity of young people, as evidenced by the recently realized student project of housing transformation during the pandemic, but also today’s exhibition of extremely talented students of architecture.
This is only an initial step forward, in accordance with the recently signed agreement between our Faculty and the City Hall, and I expect as many joint projects and creative realizations as possible in the future. It is time to go around another circle in the central hall under these designed masks and to once again read the unique messages of the young creators. With gratitude to the organizers, participants and guests, I declare the exhibition “Magnitudo” open.”
We hereby invite you to visit the exhibition of works by students of the Faculty of Architecture, University of Sarajevo at the Sarajevo City Hall, which will be open until October 7, 2020. years.
