Macedonia Shows “Earthquake” Exhibition in Contemporary Art Museum in Bosnia
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The exhibition is organized to mark the 40th anniversary of the disastrous earthquake that shook Banja Luka in 1969. It contains 106 paintings imagined as flags representing the 84 countries and around 20 organisations that showed solidarity to Skopje in the first days after it was shaken by a serious earthquake in 1963, as well as in its subsequent renewal.
Next to the Macedonian exhibition, “with solidarity” will stand also our first 10 exhibits submitted in the form of a gift of solidarity among countries and artists which - after our disaster and the Banja Luka earthquake of October 1969, were an expression of equal energy. These two projects under one roof in our museum certainly surpass the cultural level and place both Skopje and Banja Luka on the same level of a shared past and a common future,” Lilyana Labovik, director of the Republika Srpska Museum of Contemporary Art in Banja Luka, told Utrinski Vesnik.
The Solidarity Exhibition will be on display in Banja Luka until November 12.
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