EUROPE ACCORDING TO FEJES

The exhibition Europe according to Feješ is realized as part of the project of the same name and is part of the official program of the manifestation Novi Sad - European Capital of Culture in 2022, program arch The Other Europe. The exhibition is organized by the Museum of Naive and Marginal Art, the Cultural Center of Novi Sad and the Center for Sustainable Urban Development and Culture Struktura.

You can see the exhibition from October 11 to 23, in two areas of the Cultural Center of Novi Sad - the Art Gallery and the Tribina mladih club (every weekday from 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.).

You can find out more about the rich accompanying program of the exhibition on the social networks of Novi Sad - European Capital of Culture, KC Novi Sad, as well as on the Instagram page @emerikfejes.

Emerik Feješ (1904-1969) was one of the pioneers of naive and marginal art in our region. A button maker and comb maker by profession, he began to paint intensively after retiring in 1949, and during the next two decades he produced an impressive body of work. The main theme of Feješ's paintings is the architecture of cities, whose contours he transferred from postcards to paper, with the help of a match dipped in tempera, and then colored them, thus creating fantastic and unusual representations of the world's largest metropolises, as well as many Yugoslav cities

His extraordinary talent and unique painting expression were recognized during his lifetime, so he was promoted and supported by many art historians, artists and collectors such as Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos, Ivan Tabaković, Oto Bihalji-Merin, Ana Bešlić, Boško Petrović, Rajko Mamuzić, Vojin Bašičević and others.

He spent most of his life in Novi Sad, living modestly and dreaming that one day he would visit the cities he so passionately and tirelessly painted. Unfortunately, that wish did not come true. His works have been exhibited in more than ten solo and two hundred group exhibitions around the world.

At the exhibition, visitors will have the opportunity to see twenty-three paintings by Feješ with representations of European cities, mostly from the collection of the Museum of Naive and Marginal Art.