Terra, Kikinda: How a local artist used home turf to create a world’s best terracotta art collection

As a twenty-something third year student at Belgrade’s art Academy in 1960s, Slobodan Kojić dreamt big. A Kikinda native, he envisaged creating an art colony which would make use of his native city’s clay pits – which powered the city’s brick and roof tile industry – so artists could create majestic, grandiose works of terracotta. The use or clay in the arts in what is … Continue reading Terra, Kikinda: How a local artist used home turf to create a world’s best terracotta art collection

Picturesque: Hiking through Zagajička Hills in Banat and taking a ferry to Ram

“Does such a thing as ‘the fatal flaw,’ that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn’t. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs – Donna Tartt, Secret History As a person who is largely swayed by aesthetics, it is … Continue reading Picturesque: Hiking through Zagajička Hills in Banat and taking a ferry to Ram

Pokretači 2.05 Ivan Brkljač/Mokrin House, Mokrin

Gost je Ivan Brkljač, čovek koji stoji iza projekta Mokrin House. Mokrin House je inovativni co-living i co-working prostor koji se ne samo trudi da ponudi jedinstveno mesto za digitalne nomade iz celog sveta, već i da oživi bivše najveće selo u SFR Jugoslaviji na samom severo-istoku Srbije. U našem razgovoru, Ivan je podelio priču o svom dugom putu od Novog Sada do Mokrina – … Continue reading Pokretači 2.05 Ivan Brkljač/Mokrin House, Mokrin