ZORAN MARKUŠ,
Dobanovačka 42
Zemun
phone: 104-740
Dear Mr. Vučelić,
The show about “Zenitzma”, which was broadcast a few days ago by the Second Program of Television Belgrade, is a disgrace to Serbian culture. Ignorant people (as well as some evil people) who have never dealt with these and similar problems, have taken the right to talk about the star moments of our avant-garde. Shame happened in your house and as its manager, but also as an ordinary citizen, you would have to react.
What has been done to me is immoral.
(*) I was the only art historian with whom Ljubomir Micić wanted to collaborate on the “Zenitism” project, which included a monograph and an exhibition. In 1971, the Museum of Contemporary Art accepted my concept and signed a realization contract with me.
Thanks to the support and material assistance of the Ministry of Culture of Serbia, in 1973 I researched material on Zenitism in libraries, museums and institutions of modern art in Brussels, Paris, Rome and Budapest. I collected some of the material courtesy of the Mayakovsky Museum in Moscow and the relevant institutions of Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and was in contact with the National Library in Tokyo…
I published the results of three years of research in the 1970s on about 200 pages of the magazine “Delo”, and they included 90 percent of the facts relevant to Zenitism. His literal memories of socializing and conversations with Lj. Micic, as well as information about his death, I published in the early seventies in several issues of Sarajevo’s “Echo” and in Novi Sad’s “Fields”.
In the show in question, this long-term work has been completely bypassed and I do not understand the motive for why and with what right my photograph was published, without identification.
Among the many inaccuracies and lies, the biggest ones are those that say “that Ljubomir Micić died of starvation” and that until 1981, nothing was known about Zenitism until Irina Subotić (*) and no research was undertaken.
By sending you this letter, I want to believe that you will not remain indifferent, and certain corrections are always possible.
Sincerely yours,
Belgrade, December 14, 1994
Zoran Markuš