{"id":10436,"date":"2026-05-08T12:46:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeptermuzej.rs\/?p=10436"},"modified":"2026-05-08T12:46:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:46:58","slug":"dusan-petrovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeptermuzej.rs\/en\/dusan-petrovic\/","title":{"rendered":"DU\u0160AN PETROVI\u0106"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1k91vuq-b1f3d2e1855a1bf87266bed3ab4fd06b\">\n.flex_column.av-1k91vuq-b1f3d2e1855a1bf87266bed3ab4fd06b{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-1k91vuq-b1f3d2e1855a1bf87266bed3ab4fd06b av_one_third  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-183zko2-96665f354abe67c65e46692622dd0372\">\n.flex_column.av-183zko2-96665f354abe67c65e46692622dd0372{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-183zko2-96665f354abe67c65e46692622dd0372 av_one_third  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_one_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kpqsvx7c-1d3755af3ce7917884abfc185040c730\">\n.avia-image-container.av-kpqsvx7c-1d3755af3ce7917884abfc185040c730 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-kpqsvx7c-1d3755af3ce7917884abfc185040c730 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-kpqsvx7c-1d3755af3ce7917884abfc185040c730 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-2  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-10438 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-10438 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/zeptermuzej.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1.jpg\" alt='' title='1'  height=\"600\" width=\"400\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-wwboiq-b88565478bf2c633ae531a153802aaa4\">\n.flex_column.av-wwboiq-b88565478bf2c633ae531a153802aaa4{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-wwboiq-b88565478bf2c633ae531a153802aaa4 av_one_third  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_layout_row  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='av-layout-grid-1'  class='av-layout-grid-container av-145098-81142c67ee4e07e7b47b2dd7af6d57dc entry-content-wrapper main_color av-flex-cells  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-last  grid-row-not-first  container_wrap sidebar_right'  >\n<div class='flex_cell av-342x0-573d092b10da78219aa23e09b501e5f1 av-gridrow-cell av_one_fifth no_margin  avia-builder-el-5  el_before_av_cell_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-first '  ><div class='flex_cell_inner'><\/div><\/div><div class='flex_cell av-2or7w-e32334517c27b3267011c1bc9172e54c av-gridrow-cell av_three_fifth no_margin  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_cell_one_fifth  el_before_av_cell_one_fifth '  ><div class='flex_cell_inner'><p><section  class='av_textblock_section av-kpqsg7qh-f92363381b6bf9e8ad9db8617a29e464 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Born in 1962 in Belgrade. He graduated in 1987 from the Department of Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, in the class of Professor Miodrag Mi\u0161a Popovi\u0107, where he has been teaching since 1989. He completed his M.A. in 1992, and since 2011 he has held the title of Full Professor. A member of ULUS (Association of Fine Artists of Serbia) since 1988.<\/p>\n<p>He has held 13 solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions at home and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>His works are included in many public and private collections.<\/p>\n<p>He has received several awards:<\/p>\n<p>University of Arts in Belgrade Award, 1984 and 1997.<\/p>\n<p>October Prize of the City of Belgrade for the best professional and scholarly works by students, 1987.<\/p>\n<p>City Self-Governing Community of Culture Award for best achievement, 1989, for the sculpture exhibition at the Kolarac Gallery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom April to April\u201d Award, Studio B, 1996, for the best exhibition in the 1995\u20131996 season.<\/p>\n<p>Annual Award for Best Solo Exhibition, Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The Ivan Tabakovi\u0107 Fund Award, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Grand Plaque of the University of Arts for the 2018\/2019 academic year, for exceptional merit and contribution to the University of Arts in Belgrade, 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-n6a58-3c2074c02d4e106450cc1d5d0aae4054\">\n.flex_column.av-n6a58-3c2074c02d4e106450cc1d5d0aae4054{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-n6a58-3c2074c02d4e106450cc1d5d0aae4054 av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_three_fifth  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kpx39hlc-1fd4da067ef83fda005358ab885c3dee\">\n#top 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\/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kpx39hlc-33-6c47116769fe50330864dcd177a4c269\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-kpx39hlc-33-6c47116769fe50330864dcd177a4c269{\nheight:26px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-kpx39hlc-33-6c47116769fe50330864dcd177a4c269 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-12  el_after_av_image  avia-builder-el-last '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-n6a58-32-cb03e663a38cc1260f2fe4de991ea86e\">\n.flex_column.av-n6a58-32-cb03e663a38cc1260f2fe4de991ea86e{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-n6a58-32-cb03e663a38cc1260f2fe4de991ea86e av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-13  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_textblock  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kpx39hlc-30-0ec7b5d0799d7e230148f97de1e8ee15\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-kpx39hlc-30-0ec7b5d0799d7e230148f97de1e8ee15{\nheight:26px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-kpx39hlc-30-0ec7b5d0799d7e230148f97de1e8ee15 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-14  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div><section  class='av_textblock_section av-kpqsg7qh-35-32d36b27fa5f3c245508531200a6dde6 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>INTERGROWTH<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cInto wind, water, sunlight, starlight, there always entered<\/p>\n<p>leaf and branch, bole and root, the shadowy, the complex.\u201c<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Ursula Le Guin,<em> The Word for World Is Forest<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Unlike most artists who work <em>in<\/em> a particular material (stone, wood, clay, metal, polyester, etc.), Du\u0161an Petrovi\u0107 works <em>in conjunction with<\/em> the material itself, i.e. in a partnership, an equal, dialogical relationship. Although throughout his creative and exhibition career, spanning nearly four decades, he has produced sculptures in collaboration with stone, glass, and metal, he has achieved his most intense and enduring affinity with wood\u2014it has been a constant in his work since his first solo exhibition, held in 1988 at the gallery of the Belgrade Student Cultural Center.<\/p>\n<p>Very early on, Petrovi\u0107 established himself as an authentic and prominent figure on the local art scene. He is one of four artists (Joksimovi\u0107, Krgovi\u0107, Apostolovi\u0107) who, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, through their innovative approaches and procedures, opened up a new creative field within Serbian\/Yugoslav sculpture, designated as the \u201cNew Belgrade Sculpture.\u201d At that time, Professor Je\u0161a Denegri interpreted Petrovi\u0107\u2019s sculpture as being grounded in \u201cthe modernist ideal of a thoroughly realized form,\u201d recognizing in it an affinity with the tendency of \u201cmodernism after postmodernism.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a> Throughout all these decades, Petrovi\u0107 has consistently, without unnecessary detours or digressions, followed the creative premises he established at the very beginning of his artistic path.<\/p>\n<p>His spatial works, ranging from associative, abstract, and engaged to social sculpture, constitute a complex and refined body of thought that reaches into diverse spheres and fuses a variety of approaches and perspectives\u2014both those that are exact and scientific, from biology, botany, mineralogy, petrology, ecology, and craft skills, as well as those belonging to the broad spectrum of the humanities. Guided by the conviction that the creative act is, first and foremost, an ethical act, opposed to an anthropocentric understanding of the world, he creates works that are deeply humane and noble, at once engaged and ecologically aware.<\/p>\n<p>Key points of support in Petrovi\u0107\u2019s creative process are intuition, knowledge, and a finely honed sensitivity to the properties of materials. Not infrequently, the material itself (often found) stimulates the initial idea for a work. On the one hand, his works are characterized by craftsmanship, precision, perfectionism, and an uncompromising commitment to realizing an idea; on the other, by a striving for absolute creative freedom, that is, a refusal to submit to any formal imperatives or constraints.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Je\u0161a Denegri, text in the exhibition catalogue <em>Du\u0161an Petrovi\u0107: Sculptures and Drawings<\/em>, Gallery of the Belgrade Youth Center, 1993.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-n6a58-29-c09e20238a61bdc66885b2b306fd0edc\">\n.flex_column.av-n6a58-29-c09e20238a61bdc66885b2b306fd0edc{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-n6a58-29-c09e20238a61bdc66885b2b306fd0edc av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-16  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_three_fifth  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-n6a58-26-eb7e054311a839037d810efc8e3cd2eb\">\n.flex_column.av-n6a58-26-eb7e054311a839037d810efc8e3cd2eb{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-n6a58-26-eb7e054311a839037d810efc8e3cd2eb av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-17  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kpx354ey-31-77939d683f4e64b3c408b3a02b8fb553\">\n.avia-image-container.av-kpx354ey-31-77939d683f4e64b3c408b3a02b8fb553 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-kpx354ey-31-77939d683f4e64b3c408b3a02b8fb553 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\nfont-size:10px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-kpx354ey-31-77939d683f4e64b3c408b3a02b8fb553 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-18  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-10448 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-10448 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/zeptermuzej.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6.jpg\" alt='' title='6'  height=\"400\" width=\"600\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zeptermuzej.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6.jpg 600w, https:\/\/zeptermuzej.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kpx39hlc-28-73befbebf8e1bc8293fe5d8e863998dd\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-kpx39hlc-28-73befbebf8e1bc8293fe5d8e863998dd{\nheight:26px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-kpx39hlc-28-73befbebf8e1bc8293fe5d8e863998dd hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-19  el_after_av_image  avia-builder-el-last '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-n6a58-25-60ef354940c7b1206888362f08800858\">\n.flex_column.av-n6a58-25-60ef354940c7b1206888362f08800858{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-n6a58-25-60ef354940c7b1206888362f08800858 av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-20  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_textblock  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><\/div><section  class='av_textblock_section av-kpqsg7qh-27-dd9d048e8d3a67c3d6cf95d4f0199830 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>The forms of his sculptures, which always arise from a dialogue with the material, are unpredictable and invariably different. Each of his works is a precious and unrepeatable being, a sumptuous and unique identity. \u201cHis intention is for the idea to adapt to the material just as much as the material itself is an idea in its own right,\u201d once observed Du\u0161an\u2019s colleague and friend, the sculptor Zdravko Joksimovi\u0107. Moreover, since almost everything Petrovi\u0107 uses in his work consists of found, discarded materials, Joksimovi\u0107 describes him as a \u201cmaster of the recycling and reanimation of materials.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Petrovi\u0107\u2019s creative process, from discovering or recognizing the material to the final formulation of the form in the studio or gallery, a key role is given to chance, or rather, synchronicity\u2014acausal \u201cmeaningful coincidences.\u201d Often, material that seems entirely insignificant, worthless, or discarded leads him along a long, uncertain, and exciting creative path. His spatial creations combine elements of numerous attributes of contemporary artistic production: performativity, processuality, <em>objet trouv\u00e9, ready-made, in situ, work in progress<\/em>, and environment. Yet above all, they embody uniqueness and authenticity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tree, a mediator between the earth and the sky, symbolizes both the chthonic and the uranic worlds. According to the general mythological schema of many peoples, the tree thus connects three levels of cosmic meaning: the underworld (the Hadic realm\u2013roots), earthly signs of reality (the tree itself), and light\u2013the sky (branches, canopy, crown).\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Kosta Bogdanovi\u0107,<em> Poetika bi\u0107a drveta (The Poetics of the Being of the Tree)<a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\"><sup><strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sup><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The principle and dramaturgical flow by which Petrovi\u0107 extends his works through the exhibition space of the Zepter Museum can be described as\u2014intergrowth. He does not accept the limits of the so-called \u201cwhite cube,\u201d but rather occupies the space using the method by which vegetation does\u2014spreading freely, in directions both with and against gravity, horizontally and vertically, visibly and hidden, rhizomatically. Observing the world and acting from a holistic perspective, with the conviction that humans and nature are (after all) one, he returns to the unnatural environment (both visually and semantically) nature\u2019s refined artifacts.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Zdravko Joksimovi\u0107, \u201cThe Fantastic Reality of Matter,\u201d text in the exhibition catalogue <em>D. Petrovi\u0107: The Great Cloak<\/em>, Gallery 73, Belgrade, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> Kosta Bogdanovi\u0107, <em>Poetika bi\u0107a drveta<\/em>, \u0160umarski fakultet, Beograd, 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-n6a58-22-ba231b8b1555c480a8943fccaddd62b2\">\n.flex_column.av-n6a58-22-ba231b8b1555c480a8943fccaddd62b2{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-n6a58-22-ba231b8b1555c480a8943fccaddd62b2 av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-22  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_three_fifth  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kpx39hlc-23-b9d21a1761d0ea9ab4d30af0632ce483\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-kpx39hlc-23-b9d21a1761d0ea9ab4d30af0632ce483{\nheight:26px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-kpx39hlc-23-b9d21a1761d0ea9ab4d30af0632ce483 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-23  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kpx39hlc-19-6011ebc1d2c659b453e93089eb03757a\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-kpx39hlc-19-6011ebc1d2c659b453e93089eb03757a{\nheight:26px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-kpx39hlc-19-6011ebc1d2c659b453e93089eb03757a hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-24  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-n6a58-20-8836e171890f7ec82d899d41ac00a84c\">\n.flex_column.av-n6a58-20-8836e171890f7ec82d899d41ac00a84c{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-n6a58-20-8836e171890f7ec82d899d41ac00a84c av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-25  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kpx354ey-24-765b56e5ede01a163d19717bab8ed649\">\n.avia-image-container.av-kpx354ey-24-765b56e5ede01a163d19717bab8ed649 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-kpx354ey-24-765b56e5ede01a163d19717bab8ed649 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\nfont-size:10px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-kpx354ey-24-765b56e5ede01a163d19717bab8ed649 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-26  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-10446 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-10446 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/zeptermuzej.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5.jpg\" alt='' title='5'  height=\"600\" width=\"400\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kpx39hlc-18-4f4634bf5276b8b463017d875e99e748\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-kpx39hlc-18-4f4634bf5276b8b463017d875e99e748{\nheight:26px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-kpx39hlc-18-4f4634bf5276b8b463017d875e99e748 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-27  el_after_av_image  avia-builder-el-last '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-n6a58-17-e47bd81634fd73dc8217b93067289a25\">\n.flex_column.av-n6a58-17-e47bd81634fd73dc8217b93067289a25{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-n6a58-17-e47bd81634fd73dc8217b93067289a25 av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-28  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_textblock  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kpx39hlc-15-45e01f50ad0d79b231cdba1e0ba45a19\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-kpx39hlc-15-45e01f50ad0d79b231cdba1e0ba45a19{\nheight:26px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-kpx39hlc-15-45e01f50ad0d79b231cdba1e0ba45a19 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-29  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div><section  class='av_textblock_section av-kpqsg7qh-21-43cc6c2014c931ad4d4706dfd757de06 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>The dominant material of the <em>From the Earth to the Sky<\/em> installation is wood. The monumental work of the same name, which the visitor encounters first, signals Petrovi\u0107\u2019s fundamental belief that there is no distinction between life and non-life, organic and inorganic, the concrete, vegetative, and post-vegetative existence of a tree. Petrovi\u0107 recognizes all states and transformations of a tree as an active flow: growth, leafing, ring formation, transformation into functional objects\u2014boards, beams, slats, sawdust\u2014and then decay, burning, fossilization, conversion into oil, stone, ash, and various solid and gaseous products. Simply put, Petrovi\u0107 understands wood as a ubiquitous and all-pervading material, an alchemical <em>materia prima<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This work, which has fused <em>with<\/em> and grown into the museum environment\u2014the building\u2019s interior and the permanent museum display\u2014is an exciting construction made from the noble, velvety bark of redwood and banal oak slats, joined in a life-giving rhythm of growth and continuous cyclical metamorphoses. As a shadow of this wooden construction, Petrovi\u0107 places stone slabs on the museum floor\u2014layered metamorphic shale, once used as roofing tiles in the village of Ma\u0107e on Golija.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-n6a58-14-2a3628d64db6caee5adcde867ed31978\">\n.flex_column.av-n6a58-14-2a3628d64db6caee5adcde867ed31978{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-n6a58-14-2a3628d64db6caee5adcde867ed31978 av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-31  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_three_fifth  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kpx39hlc-13-1a6d80cbf1806014c59ac0045f4f608f\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-kpx39hlc-13-1a6d80cbf1806014c59ac0045f4f608f{\nheight:26px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-kpx39hlc-13-1a6d80cbf1806014c59ac0045f4f608f hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-32  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-n6a58-11-7e5a1baeec060437b1f52d5fa4c0348d\">\n.flex_column.av-n6a58-11-7e5a1baeec060437b1f52d5fa4c0348d{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-n6a58-11-7e5a1baeec060437b1f52d5fa4c0348d av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-33  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kpx354ey-16-b19651b40f274a9aa407613b95081605\">\n.avia-image-container.av-kpx354ey-16-b19651b40f274a9aa407613b95081605 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-kpx354ey-16-b19651b40f274a9aa407613b95081605 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\nfont-size:10px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-kpx354ey-16-b19651b40f274a9aa407613b95081605 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-34  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-10442 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-10442 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/zeptermuzej.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3.jpg\" alt='' title='3'  height=\"600\" width=\"429\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kpx39hlc-10-effee8034c9999f0cd39545f027a4c83\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-kpx39hlc-10-effee8034c9999f0cd39545f027a4c83{\nheight:26px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-kpx39hlc-10-effee8034c9999f0cd39545f027a4c83 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-35  el_after_av_image  avia-builder-el-last '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-n6a58-9-a63c25f60aae125c20d31abcb97a2d4b\">\n.flex_column.av-n6a58-9-a63c25f60aae125c20d31abcb97a2d4b{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-n6a58-9-a63c25f60aae125c20d31abcb97a2d4b av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-36  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_textblock  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kpx39hlc-7-f0f7bf6801608b3354ef7ed5d6d335e3\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-kpx39hlc-7-f0f7bf6801608b3354ef7ed5d6d335e3{\nheight:52px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-kpx39hlc-7-f0f7bf6801608b3354ef7ed5d6d335e3 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-37  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div><section  class='av_textblock_section av-kpqsg7qh-12-8ea28e31fefebe57afb426365e0bf67a '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>He continues this process of intergrowth with the striking sculpture <em>Depths<\/em>, which guides the viewer toward the monumental <em>Parting<\/em>, where two materials are confronted yet fused\u2014hornbeam trees from \u017dagubica, on which the sculptor made entirely discreet interventions, and galvanized sheet metal, bearing visible, unaltered traces of duration and use in protecting houses from rainwater. Following the \u201cwild\u201d form of the trees, the sculptor shapes protective caps from metal, creating a kind of druidic temple or cathedral, where the points of contact, intersection, and fusion between wood and metal offer the viewer numerous exciting visual perspectives. Since this is <em>Parting<\/em>, he \u201canchors\u201d the construction with a thick ship\u2019s rope.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-n6a58-6-4abb269a7438f14a939ccf202c36746b\">\n.flex_column.av-n6a58-6-4abb269a7438f14a939ccf202c36746b{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-n6a58-6-4abb269a7438f14a939ccf202c36746b av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-39  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_three_fifth  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kpx39hlc-5-cc7b5e2f068a18c3592cf035f3946fba\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-kpx39hlc-5-cc7b5e2f068a18c3592cf035f3946fba{\nheight:52px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-kpx39hlc-5-cc7b5e2f068a18c3592cf035f3946fba hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-40  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-n6a58-4-90a6b4f6d085601aac852d775e440e84\">\n.flex_column.av-n6a58-4-90a6b4f6d085601aac852d775e440e84{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-n6a58-4-90a6b4f6d085601aac852d775e440e84 av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-41  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kpx354ey-8-7bac330d9745b605742ebaa5b196cb42\">\n.avia-image-container.av-kpx354ey-8-7bac330d9745b605742ebaa5b196cb42 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-kpx354ey-8-7bac330d9745b605742ebaa5b196cb42 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\nfont-size:10px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-kpx354ey-8-7bac330d9745b605742ebaa5b196cb42 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-42  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-10444 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-10444 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/zeptermuzej.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4.jpg\" alt='' title='4'  height=\"600\" width=\"600\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zeptermuzej.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4.jpg 600w, https:\/\/zeptermuzej.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/zeptermuzej.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/zeptermuzej.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/zeptermuzej.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/zeptermuzej.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zeptermuzej.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kpx39hlc-3-f044383f4528a9f50f8a97412e90eeca\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-kpx39hlc-3-f044383f4528a9f50f8a97412e90eeca{\nheight:52px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-kpx39hlc-3-f044383f4528a9f50f8a97412e90eeca hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-43  el_after_av_image  avia-builder-el-last '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-n6a58-2-57109ee481a7433c68d8033e24b5b541\">\n.flex_column.av-n6a58-2-57109ee481a7433c68d8033e24b5b541{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-n6a58-2-57109ee481a7433c68d8033e24b5b541 av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-44  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_textblock  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kpx39hlc-1-cd748e012e73a77b032b56c15e96cd11\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-kpx39hlc-1-cd748e012e73a77b032b56c15e96cd11{\nheight:52px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-kpx39hlc-1-cd748e012e73a77b032b56c15e96cd11 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-45  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div><section  class='av_textblock_section av-mo2uy7ho-b587497ce7dc4a4034baa65de62c512a '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>The prominent wall sculpture <em>Memories<\/em>, centered on a monolithic segment of cedar wood, unites two principles\u2014natural and artificial. While the segment attached to the wall preserves the tree\u2019s original state in full, its extension is worked into a rectangular profile, without compromising the compactness of the wood mass. A rock crystal discreetly growing between the rings\u2014crossing the time of the tree\u2019s growth with the time of the crystal\u2019s formation and growth, as well as exact, calendrical time\u2014introduces us to a new, barely comprehensible temporal dimension. Framed by old, discarded picture frames, which provide an artistic\/museum context for the scene, the composition suggests the timelessness of both nature and art.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the starting section of the installation consists of the minimalist wall composition <em>Untitled<\/em>, made from parts of two former roof beams\u2014beech and oak. By cutting the tops at an angle, Petrovi\u0107 reveals how, beneath the worn surface, a strong and healthy tree still persists. Through its form and color, vitality, and durability, this work visually grows into the gallery wall, opening a path toward timelessness and infinity.<\/p>\n<p>Human beings have created a division between inanimate and living nature, thereby establishing a certain hierarchy of values. Petrovi\u0107, with his entire being, opposes most anthropocentric assumptions; for him, the living and the non-living, the organic and the inorganic, exist on the same plane as precious substances which, in mutual harmony, constant exchange, and the flow of energies, build the planet\u2019s ecosystem. Everything is in constant transformation, but the speeds of these changes differ. Crystals grow, trees communicate with one another, forests move, rocks disintegrate, prehistoric animals and trees emerge from the grip of millennial glaciers, nd fossils of various plants, insects, mollusks, and so on appear between the layers of mica. 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