An interdisciplinary exhibition, as was the work of Vojislav Despotov himself The merry hell of poetry in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina points to the complex connections between literature and visual art
"We felt that something was coming to an end. Of course, none of us knew what was waiting for us, especially not that everything would fall apart so bloody, but that everything would be different - you could feel it in the air. And Tito's death happened right at the beginning of that decade. I think there was an irrational sense of 'now or never' between us."
There is always a void behind people, but when someone who made the culture he lived in leaves us, the void is immeasurable. There remains a hole in that culture that cannot be compensated for by anything
His love for art and the artist as a creator dominated his every concept. He observed and recognized new phenomena and encouraged young artists to freely experiment and explore
"They created cultural stations with two or three hours of official program for which the kids have to write 'projects' in order to possibly get some of it approved. It doesn't work that way, fellow cultured people, real things are created when a bunch of people directed at each other spend a bunch of time together fooling around, hallucinating, getting drunk and getting closer, opening up to each other and finding common ground. The things that arise in this way are bulletproof and have a chance to give birth to something original. Excuse me, please be nice, but true values are not created by writing projects in sandals, on pallets with organic juice, on iPads. point"
"I'm quite curious about which side I'm on, whether I agree with my parents, with my grandparents, whether I agree with my generation on certain points of view. I tried to 'get out' of giving some final judgment or moral vertical as it should be, but I was giving myself that kind of freedom to be honest about trying to ask some questions both of the previous generations, of my parents, and of myself - what is it that are we living and do we actually have a path that we are moving on or do we just spontaneously do some things just to be said to be doing them"
