Post by radovic on May 12, 2008 19:22:48 GMT -5
Exclusive exhibition on the occasion of the National Museum Day
The secret culture of Lepenski Vir
Author: M. Marjanovic | 13.05.2008 - 00:29
Twenty-five years have passed from our last encounter with the art of Lepenski vir. The Belgrade audience will have an exclusive opportunity to see the sculptures at the exhibition “The secret of Lepeski Vir-the Sun God from the seventh millennium B.C”, opened today in the National Bank hall at Slavija, on the occasion of the National Museum Day. After the exhibition, the sculptures will be put in a vault until the end of the construction of our leading cultural institution.
Ljubinka Babovic, the author of the exhibition and the catalogue “Lepenski Vir” at the National Museum in Belgrade, presented this interesting project. The exhibition itself is the result of successful cooperation between the National Museum in Belgrade and the National Bank of Serbia and is initiated and supported by the Serbian Ministry of Culture and the borough of Stari Grad.
It has been nine years since the permanent archeological exhibition at the National Museum was opened for public visits. Belgrade audience has an opportunity to see the greatest treasures kept at the National Museum only on special occasions and “The Secret of Lepenski Vir” is one of the very rare ones.
Excavations on the Lepenski Vir archeological site, located on the Danube banks in Eastern Serbia, took place between 1965 and 1971. The main contribution to exploration of this site was through the work of the professor Dragoslav Srejovic. Seven successively built settlements from the Mesolithic period were found under the first settlements of agriculturalists and cattle breeders (5300-4800 B.C.). These archeological findings are characterized by numerous buildings, graves implying some funeral rites and rituals, tools made of stones and bones, miscellaneous jewelry and monumental sculptures. After the excavations were finished, the whole site was relocated 29.7m higher to avoid flooding from a new artificial lake. The Museum of Lepenski Vir is located in the vicinity.
When asked about the Sun God in the culture of Lepenski Vir, Ljubinka Babovic, the former Srejovic’s student and his current collaborator, explains: “The Sun God appears in the religion and culture of Lepenski Vir as the Uran divinity, the world creator in time and space, comprehended as a globe. It is conceived as an anthropomorphic figure, and the whole site of Lepenski Vir is actually the holy City of Sun.
The seventeen sculptures made of stone imply that our forefathers made them to be eternal, while their shapes (pointed, round, slab-like…) present the civilization which art is characterized by numerous ritual features.
The secret culture of Lepenski Vir
Author: M. Marjanovic | 13.05.2008 - 00:29
Twenty-five years have passed from our last encounter with the art of Lepenski vir. The Belgrade audience will have an exclusive opportunity to see the sculptures at the exhibition “The secret of Lepeski Vir-the Sun God from the seventh millennium B.C”, opened today in the National Bank hall at Slavija, on the occasion of the National Museum Day. After the exhibition, the sculptures will be put in a vault until the end of the construction of our leading cultural institution.
Ljubinka Babovic, the author of the exhibition and the catalogue “Lepenski Vir” at the National Museum in Belgrade, presented this interesting project. The exhibition itself is the result of successful cooperation between the National Museum in Belgrade and the National Bank of Serbia and is initiated and supported by the Serbian Ministry of Culture and the borough of Stari Grad.
It has been nine years since the permanent archeological exhibition at the National Museum was opened for public visits. Belgrade audience has an opportunity to see the greatest treasures kept at the National Museum only on special occasions and “The Secret of Lepenski Vir” is one of the very rare ones.
Excavations on the Lepenski Vir archeological site, located on the Danube banks in Eastern Serbia, took place between 1965 and 1971. The main contribution to exploration of this site was through the work of the professor Dragoslav Srejovic. Seven successively built settlements from the Mesolithic period were found under the first settlements of agriculturalists and cattle breeders (5300-4800 B.C.). These archeological findings are characterized by numerous buildings, graves implying some funeral rites and rituals, tools made of stones and bones, miscellaneous jewelry and monumental sculptures. After the excavations were finished, the whole site was relocated 29.7m higher to avoid flooding from a new artificial lake. The Museum of Lepenski Vir is located in the vicinity.
When asked about the Sun God in the culture of Lepenski Vir, Ljubinka Babovic, the former Srejovic’s student and his current collaborator, explains: “The Sun God appears in the religion and culture of Lepenski Vir as the Uran divinity, the world creator in time and space, comprehended as a globe. It is conceived as an anthropomorphic figure, and the whole site of Lepenski Vir is actually the holy City of Sun.
The seventeen sculptures made of stone imply that our forefathers made them to be eternal, while their shapes (pointed, round, slab-like…) present the civilization which art is characterized by numerous ritual features.