15.09.2009. – 30.09.2009.
It seems that oral tradition, urban legends and tavern epics in Serbia consistently distort the facts, turning characters into dragons and threatening to engulf the future. Dragons are, in one way or another, an integral part of the pedagogical process and everyday life in this country. Different works in this exhibition are assambled together under the title which consciously evokes the title of the Czech writer Michal Viveg’s book “Upbringing of girls in the Czech Republic,” a witty novel about the so-called transition. Materials and approaches underscore the cacophony: a collection of plastic gadgets, miniature sculptures of dragons from “Kinder-egg”, then some other dragons toys in which comic dimension is not so pronounced stand side by side with large manuscripts of two modern painters – one domestic and one foreign. Two canvases are, thus, the synthesis of large and small, serious and frivolous, theatrical and subversive. The archetypal scene becomes grotesque, just as is in our textbooks, in our growing up or in our daily lives.
Mileta Prodanovic solo exhibition of in Belgrade Arte Gallery consists of two large format paintings, acrylic on canvas / assemblage and paintings-assemblages of small format, and the cycle of photographic works. Along stands the artwork “Proud To Be …” triptych – computer graphics from 2001, whose theme is close to the new works.