The academic Svetomir Arsić Basara is the winner of the Vuk’s endowment for art award

The academic Svetomir Arsić Basara is the winner of the Vuk’s endowment for art award for the retrospective exhibition Svetomir Arsić Basara – Works (1998-2018).

The retrospective exhibition by the academic Basara was held in 2019, at the gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts on the occasion of the jubilee – 90 years since the birth of the author.

It is a special honor for our new institution that the legacy of this extraordinary artist is situated here.

Since he is particularly devoted to our municipality, we proclaimed Basara the first citizen of the Municipality of Žagubica as a way of expressing our gratitude. Basara received the Vuk’s endowment for art award (laureate) for the exhibition Works (1998-2018) that was held in the period between the 11th and the 20th of November in 2019, in the showroom of the National Museum in Zrenjanin. The exhibition was first opened at the gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

This board consists of the following members: Professor Svetislav Božić, the corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (the chairman) Rada Đuričin, Ph.D. Milijana Simonović, Pavle Medaković, Đorđe Malavrazić, Mirko Demić, and Ph.D. Branko Zlatković.

The exhibition in the showroom of the National Museum in Zrenjanin presented the works of individual sculptures, as well as works from several cycles Basara worked on from 1998 to 2018.

The themes that Basara draws his artistic energy from are those related to the immortality of the Kosovo myth, the glory of the Serbian knights, the beauty of the Serbian monasteries, the once-famous Medieval Serbia, and the dynasty of the Nemanjić family.

The suffering of the Serbian people, as well as the incentives for creative power, can be discerned in the cycle (Un)merciful Angel which refers to the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999.

His creative philosophy can be mirrored in the following thought: “Without a homeland, there is no path to the art since homeland creates predestination”. This quote stands in the explanation of the award.

Sculptor, art pedagogue, theorist, and academic, Basara (92) was born in a small village called Sevce, in Kosovo and Metohija. He graduated in 1958 from the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade.

In his six decades-long artistic career, he was greatly involved in pedagogic work, while in practice he lectured at individual and collective exhibitions in our country and abroad.

The Vuk’s endowment award is being assigned for the period between October 2019 and October 2020. The winners of the award will receive it in 2021 when the epidemiological measures allow it.

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