Iwano Project ... Retrospective ... Ten Years ...

A few weeks ago i went to visit The Iwano Project Exhibition RETROX which was founded in 1999 as an international artistic author’s project by Aleksandar Pedovic, http://aleksandarpedovic.com/ an artist and designer from Novi Sad – Serbia in cooperation with Mr. Nadayuki Hasegawa and Mr. Heizaburo Iwano, the manufacturer of the famous Japanese hand-made paper.

The aim and the purpose of The Iwano Project is to join together the far east Japanese culture and tradition with our European cultural practice, thus creating a new quality and cultural products in the form of works of art which form the base of the project and a new multidimensional quality.

103 artists from 23 countries were selected for the retrospective exhibition.

Leaving my little village and going to see exhibition and meeting new friends and missing old ones who could not have come, having wonderful time at the opening was something to remember.

 The exhibition featuring outstanding works were created on large scale of Japanese paper , variety of techniques and approaches, cultural and diverse influences were visible in every work... 

Some traditional approaches to working with paper were explored along with works that used new technological mediums – displaying the ways in which those mediums were showing new explorations of working with and on Japanese paper.

This diverse and exciting exhibition provided interesting survey of what is happening in contemporary art across not only Europe or Asia but across the world.

With more than 100 works displayed and the exhibition catalogue which was richly illustrated with several essays and good company of artists I really enjoyed visiting and being part and seeing my work ....

My work I Mother, design name address age... was created in 2009 but the work next to mine is my favorite ....

The Iwano Project RETROX, a large retrospective the selected group international exhibition was held from 14 - 24 February 2013. in Novi Sad (Serbia), the Museum of Contemporary Art. 
The exhibition was opened by H. E. Japanese Ambassador Toshio Tsunozaki.
Take part over 100 artists from 24 countries and four continents, curated by Nebojsa Milenkovic.

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Such new cultural product is the spirit and the product of communication between two so different civilizations, and at the same time it is a factor of regional communication, which often comes before politics as a positive impulse to cooperation and good relationships in the region and beyond.

This unique art project, the only one based in Novi Sad and Serbia, has represented our cultural area with great success through its activities, and as far as we know, there no similar project anywhere on the world which constitutes a great advantage.

In addition to the standard program, runs parallel to the concept of “Forever POLYPTYCH” – and the cyclical exhibition “Doors of Perception in the twenty-first century … which will eventually include other artists.
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Title:Doors XXI C – QUADRAL 001 Technique: Mixed media, poliptich of 4 square segments 60 x 60 cm Size: 120 x 120 cm (completed in basic formation). There is possibility to make a numbers of another combination – depends of imagination in time and space. Year: MMXI by Aleksandar Pedovic

Most of the participating women-artists came to our country for the first time and left with positive experiences and impressions.
Aleksandar Pedovic
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