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Olga Jevrić in her studio Staro Sajmište, Belgrade 1957 Photo archive / Heritage House, Belgrade
Exhibition
Olga Jevrić: Proposals for Monuments
3 Feb 2016 – 17 Apr 2016
Event times
Galleries
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 11am - 5.30pm
Wednesday: 11am - 8pm
Thursday: 11am - 5.30pm
Friday: 11am - 5.30pm
Saturday: 11am - 5.30pm
Sunday: 11am - 5.30pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 74 The Headrow
- Leeds
- LS1 3AH
- United Kingdom
Olga Jevrić (1922-2014) is a Serbian artist who was active in the second half of the twentieth century and instrumental to the development of abstract sculpture in Yugoslavia.
About
Olga Jevrić was awarded first prize in a competition to design a monument to fallen soldiers for the southern town of Prokuplje in her home country, the former Yugoslavia. Jevrić’s proposal was for an abstract form, and the controversial award flew in the face of the figurative tradition of memorials. Her project, however, remained unrealised and for the next quarter of a century Jevrić dedicated herself to creating models for monuments to the Second World War. In the first showing of Jevrić’s work in the UK for four decades, this focused selection presents a mass of sculptural experiments exploring scale, texture and the relationship of solid material to empty space.
