On Thursday, March 21 at 6 p.m. an exhibition of the works of the French artist Margot was opened in the Gallery of the Museum of Naive and Marginal Art in Jagodina. At the opening, director of MNMU, Ivana Bašičević Antić, Phd, artist Margo addressed the audience, and the exhibition was officially opened by Danijela Vanušić, First Assistant Minister of Culture. Gratitude to the teachers of the high school of music from Kragujevac, Sanja Donić and Petar Mirkov, who completed the opening with a concert.

A day later at 8 p.m. the works of this artist were also exhibited in the Kula art space in Cetinjska street in Belgrade. The curators of the exhibition in Jagodina are Ivana Bašičević Antić, Phd, Vladimir Kokoruš and Radmila Stamenković, and the curator of the Belgrade exhibition is Teodora Jeremić.

The exhibition in Jagodina will display large-sized works in mixed media on paper, a series of drawings depicted on old photographs and booklets filled with studies of organic flower-like forms. By configuring the exhibition space, the Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art wants to evoke Margot's own studio, an inner and outer refuge where the viewer is immersed in the artist's highly idiosyncratic vision of the world.

Born in 1982 and raised in the Berry province in central France, Margot ran her own business before starting her artistic career. After the financial collapse of her private business in 2014, Margo felt a strong inner need to paint. Her ancestors worked in the forests and fields and, as she recalls, "it was a simple existence, a life that followed the seasons, sowing, harvesting." The need to return to such a rhythm of life constantly attracted Margo. Retreating from the tempo of urban fast-paced life, Margot began to paint in a way which Professor Colin Rhodes describes as the release of everything that had accumulated over the years, like a visionary outburst of images. This compulsive creative impulse has never left her; thus, Margo still draws every day.

Rhodes defines her works as doors or windows to other realms, whereby even being near them allows the viewer to share the author's psychological experience, the monumental complexity of her paintings and her message, which, as she says, is a message of unity and connection that brings together the whole humanity and nature. Her paintings are at the same time like the decorated facades of huge churches and the filled, illuminated pages of old books.

Margo quickly acquired recognition on the art scene. Numerous exhibitions in galleries and museums in Europe and the USA followed (Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, College of Psychic Studies, London, Museum Montanelli, Prague, Galerie Gugging, Austria, Candid Arts Trust Center, London, Galerie Henry Boxer, London, Art et Marges Museum, Brussels) and her works entered museum and private collections around the world (American Folk Art Museum, NY, MUMO, Prague, MNMA, Serbia and many others).