The Queen Katarina Kosača Gallery opened an exhibition called Landscapes from the Gallery's holdings as part of the Mostar Spring 2025 – the 27th Matica Hrvatska Mostar Days. The exhibition, as one of its editors, Dragan Marijanović, said, is actually a selection of works with artistic landscape themes, which
They are kept in the gallery holdings at the Croatian House of Herceg Stjepan Kosača in Mostar, to which, by the way, most of the exhibited works belong, and under the same roof are numerous paintings owned by the Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the Aluminij Gallery.
The oldest work on display, as the head of the Queen Catherine Gallery and, along with Marijanović, the exhibition editor Dalibor Nikolić, said, is more than a century old and dates back to 1920, and is the work of Anđelija Lazarević.
The public was presented, among others, works signed by some of the most important names of fine art in the region - Milosavljević, Sefić, Uzelac, Kujačić, Ilačević, Miladin, Jovanović, Benzon, Nikšić,
Gvozdenović..., but also some mythical photos of the legendary Mostar photographer who is no longer with us - Ćiril Ćira Raiča.
The exhibition was opened by Nada Dalipagić, a member of the Presidency of the Mostar MH and the President of the Mostar MH Assembly, recalling that this is just one in a series of excellent art events at this year's Spring, which began with a grand exhibition from the art collection of the Matica Hrvatska, and continued with exhibitions by Vesna Vuga Sušac, Marela Jerkić Jakovljević, Ivan Branko Imrović, Ivan Kelava and Landscape.
The exhibition's editors, Marijanović and Nikolić, emphasized, among other things, that these works represent a kind of visual archive of space and time, connecting several decades of artistic creation not only in BiH but also in the region. Nikolić also emphasized that the exhibition is attractive and speaks about the history of Mostar, Herzegovina.
– The climate from which we come is depicted through stone, sun, natural phenomena and changes in nature – said Nikolić.
And why landscapes? Marijanović explained to the audience that the decision was made to choose landscapes because they simply wanted to present the former thoughts of artists of the time about what surrounded them.
– Here, before us, are the works of a multitude of masters of artistic sense and thematic suggestions. Left to us for safekeeping. Observation and understanding. There is perhaps something admonishing in this need for understanding and preservation. Landscapes need to be preserved and understood. We need them. Perhaps, even while they were painting them, these
immortals wanted to say with these paintings... – Marijanović also stated.
The exhibition, which, as it was pointed out, in addition to its artistic value, also has a strong heritage significance because it presents to the public works that are mostly kept in closed collections, and have now once again had the opportunity to communicate with the public, can be viewed until May 25th.
PHOTO: MH Mostar
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