Last night at the MCAM Gallery, a promotion was held for the monograph of Mijo Mijušković. The speakers at the event were Dr. Anastazija Miranović, President of ICOM, the International Council of Museums in Montenegro, Dr. Nikola Marković, and Nikolina Zuber, curators of Mijušković’s exhibition currently on display at MCAM.

“Stone portraits by Mijo Mijušković, both animalistic and human at the same time, carry character, emotion, and attitude. In his sculptures, we feel the dichotomy of being in nature – fragile, porous, ephemeral, and equally intimate solidity, steadfast determination, warm-cold tactility, dramatic-lyrical poetry, just as he himself was woven – from the softest sensitive material and that of diamond hardness, stubborn persistence, and passionate intensity of creation,” said Miranović.

Marković highlighted that the famous German critic and contemporary art historian Boris von Brauchitsch, in the introductory text of the monograph, discusses Mijo’s sculptures. “When we look at them, they look back. It is certainly a big mistake to believe that we are the observers of these works because, in reality, they are the ones observing us. These are uniquely beautiful, sometimes mysterious, but always unique sculptures; they quietly rest within themselves, lurking, spinning around, as if astrally walking around us. They rarely directly resemble animals and are mostly like some angelic beings from nature of unknown origin that have long lived among us undiscovered, before the artist’s providence offered them such a new platform of life.”

We remind you that the promotion of the monograph is part of the accompanying program of Mijo Mijušković’s exhibition, which is open until May 25 at the MCAM Gallery and realized in collaboration with the “ForA” gallery from Berlin.