On this day, 143 years ago, one of the most important Serbian scientists, Milutin Milanković, was born. He was a great scientist, but also a sublime creator whose path through the universe and the ages aspires much further than the destination of scientific thought. He belongs to such scientists who establish the world in thoughts, systems and relationships, because he actually dealt with issues that, according to the testimony of the oldest peoples, form the foundation of every culture - the laws of insolation, the change of seasons and the establishment of a reliable calendar. Born between East and West, educated in the West, returned to the East where he worked and died. And what we can say with certainty is that Milutin Milanković is a person who left an indelible mark that even time will not be able to suppress. Every civilization had its own way of dealing with the phenomenon of time and with the human need to outline and master time with myths, measurements, calendars and constant monitoring of everything that moves and turns around the cosmos, passes and comes in time. Despite our efforts to explain and relate everything, time always slips away from us, and that irretrievably.
„"Time and the Universe" is an exhibition conceived as a journey from darkness to light, from chaos to the cosmos, and framed by the story of a great scientist from Novi Sad. This exhibition deals with the concept of time through the ages, as well as the mutual relations between man, time and science. The author of the visual-artistic part of the exhibition is multimedia artist Dušan Jovović, while the author of the narrative is Aleksandar Petrović, who has been researching Milanković's life and works for more than 50 years. It is an interactive multimedia exhibition and the authors used a sculpture, a mapped three-dimensional image, mechanical bodies, a hologram, digital sound, but according to Jovović: "none of that as an effect, but as an essence".
„"Time and the Universe" is an exhibition conceived as a journey from darkness to light, from chaos to the cosmos, and framed by the story of a great scientist from Novi Sad. This exhibition deals with the concept of time through the ages, as well as the mutual relations between man, time and science. The author of the visual-artistic part of the exhibition is multimedia artist Dušan Jovović, while the author of the narrative is Aleksandar Petrović, who has been researching Milanković's life and works for more than 50 years. It is an interactive multimedia exhibition and the authors used a sculpture, a mapped three-dimensional image, mechanical bodies, a hologram, digital sound, but according to Jovović: "none of it as an effect, but as an essence". ignorance. Time is the identity and inversion of eternity, the energy of the universe that consciousness cannot encompass. It is consciousness in consciousness, sight in vision, memory in memory," says Petrović.
The exhibition "Time and the Universe" is not just an artistic interpretation of a certain theme, it is an evocation of the whole of humanity, an interactive space within a space in which different times, myths of the past and understandings of today alternate.
You can visit this extraordinary exhibition at Studio M, throughout the European Capital of Culture year, and I highly recommend that you do so as soon as possible. The experience is extraordinary, and you will leave with the realization that we are actually time, however silly it may sound. And as Dante said: "And now, my reader, understand the wonder where things do not even move, and in the picture changes follow them."„
Author: Katarina Klisura
