WHERE IRINA LIES: Ms. Irina Subotic is lying when she says: “Trkulja has no vision of collecting works or programs, he doesn’t know this time, he doesn’t know what’s going on around us, we don’t buy magazines, we don’t exchange catalogs, the documentation is not being processed, a big change has taken place, new artists have arrived, and the exhibition has not been updated. “
It is possible that Irina Subotic is only right when she says about the former director, painter Miodrag Protic, that it is difficult to replace him. That’s right. Irina Subotic does not know how to paint, but she could do the job of a guardian (curator) under certain conditions and under special supervision. Now her policy of a white world lady, her credibility, and her expertise is turned towards the Museum of Contemporary Art and the director Radislav Trkulja. Why is it so? I. Subotic has not done anything positive in her career. She allegedly followed the contemporary art scene. Nonsense. She tried to impose what contemporary art is. But she just tried. Definitely, she is looking for data and information, but what is it that represents her in that criticism, in that present and future museology, and what is her life’s work? I have to say – just lies and fabrications. Why didn’t she stand behind Protić, Veličković, Shejka forty years ago? And then she was vague, she made empty but clever texts, and she probably lied and searched for false information then as well as now.
Her work is her disaster.
And I heard how Irina Subotic, when she needed money, went to the Central Station in Milan … but I just heard.
Expert position of Irina Subotic: “… Sheikh’s exhibition was beautiful because Sheikh’s works are beautiful …”
Do you understand how this is a very professional art criticism that explains Sheikh’s painting in a new way, I quote, “Sheikh’s beautiful works”.
Kultura
“Vreme” broj 463, 20. novembar 1999.
Reactions
Ghost House – again
Response to the text published in the magazine “Vreme”, November 6, 1999
The Museum of Contemporary Art has not been open since March 24, and not, as stated, since April 27. Meštrović’s sculpture WIDOW does not lie on the floor, but stands in its normal position. The sculptures do not lie aborted, but were laid in time so that they would not be damaged by close explosions. There were many destroyed buildings in Serbia in the NATO aggression. Our museum was also on that big list. Of course, the Museum was the most difficult for me. However, the rehabilitation began only after the signing of an agreement between the Ministry of Culture and the Directorate for Reconstruction on September 22, 1999.
Journalist Sonja Ciric introduced herself and asked to come to get information about what is happening in the Museum. There was no talk of an interview. After reading the text in the weekly VREME, I realized that it was already planned to be intoned as a critical review with perfidious lies of perhaps expert Irina Subotic, who with her BLACK HOLE shows all possible positions of her expertise, is adequate to her ideals, her desire to show how ) finished school, how smart and qualified she is for everything related to museums, art, redemptions, etc.
WHERE IRINA LIES: Ms. Irina Subotic lies when she says: “Trkulja has no vision about collecting works or programs, he doesn’t know this time, he doesn’t know what’s going on around us, magazines aren’t bought, catalogs aren’t exchanged, documentation is not processed , a big change has taken place, new artists have arrived, and the setting has not been updated. “
The Museum Council considers proposals and adopts programs.
The works are kept in the Museum as professionally as possible, as far as we are able.
The works are collected in agreement with the expert team.
The documentation is processed as professionally as possible. More than two thirds of the catalog units were processed by computer when Radislav Trkulja was in the Museum.
The exchange of catalogs exists within the current and former Yugoslavia and abroad, which every visitor who comes to the Museum’s library can be convinced of.
We subscribe to a number of foreign magazines.
It is possible that Irina Subotic is only right when she says about the former director, painter Miodrag Protic, that it is difficult to replace him. That’s right. Irina Subotic does not know how to paint, but she could do the job of a guardian (curator) under certain conditions and under special supervision. Now her policy of a white world lady, her credibility, her expertise are turned towards the Museum of Contemporary Art and the director Radislav Trkulja. Why is it so? I. Subotic has not done anything positive in her career. She allegedly followed the contemporary art scene. Nonsense. She tried to impose what contemporary art is. But she just tried. Definitely, she is looking for data, information, but what is it that represents her in that criticism, in that present and future museology, what is her life’s work? I have to say – just lies and fabrications. Why didn’t she stand behind Protić, Veličković, Shejka forty years ago? And then she was vague, she made empty but clever texts, and she probably lied and handled false information then as well as now.
Her work is her disaster.
As we have been under an embargo for nine years, which means a series of impossibilities that we all know well, calling on the past is beautiful but pointless. In this case, all criticism and false untruths are directed not to the Museum, nor to me as director, and not in good will and desire for any possible progress in culture, but to me as a subject of ordinary bazaar chats in which crazy revanchisms from shadow and unfulfillment do not allow an independent and true state, but they create even worse virtuality and imply political affiliations even where they do not exist, in favor of their incompetence.
FALSE INTERVIEW: NATO bombs have made us look like a ghost house. According to some sources, the Museum itself was on the bombing list. Why is the lie in the subtitle that Meštrović’s sculpture is overturned, Palavicini’s sculptures lie overturned, some photographs have not been removed, is it due to a more resistant technique, etc. If Sonja Ciric, a journalist from your paper, does not distinguish or did not want to distinguish between overturned and laid sculptures, even though she had a very professional consultant, I ask her to come to the Museum to explain to her once again what it is about so as not to rule. misinformation in public.
The esteemed journalist did not mention in one word that he was asking me for an interview. The interview was fabricated, I gave information in good faith about the normal problems that the Museum is still following, I did not even assume that a malicious conversation was being made with the accompanying text that supplemented the wrong intentions.
BIRDS: “… birds can enter that space, animals can also enter, not to mention rain and wind … I heard that Trkulja asked for 40,000 DM from marketing from Zepter for the renovation of the building …” If our society open, and our museum bombs opened, so that birds and animals do not enter. Mrs. Irina Subotic was not among them.
And I heard how Irina Subotic, when she needed money, went to the Central Station in Milan … but I just heard that…
DISASTER: Bomb Bobur, if you shoot him down – he won’t work. The French are in NATO and they bombed the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade.
Expert position of Irina Subotic: “… Sheikh’s exhibition was beautiful because Sheikh’s works are beautiful …”
Do you understand how this is a very professional art criticism that explains Sheikh’s painting in a new way, I quote, “Sheikh’s beautiful works”.
BLACKHOLE: We definitely switched to politics and there is a serious list of people with all the virtues and flaws, and since she taught us a lesson, we are all crammed into her BLACK HOLE in terms of functions and order.
P.S. My political affiliation is art. The Museum of Contemporary Art serves to promote contemporary living art, and that is below all short-term political axioms. That is why I am responding to the text HOUSE OF SPIRITS from November 6, 1999.