Time and Universe - exhibition about time

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 centuries tends far beyond the destination of scientific thought. It belongs to such scientists who establish the world in thoughts, assemblies and relationships, because it actually dealt with issues that, according to the oldest peoples, are the basis of every culture - the laws of insolation, changing seasons and establishing a reliable calendar. Born between East and West, educated in the West, he 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.

Each civilization had its way of coping with the phenomenon of time and the human need to outline and conquer time with myths, calculations, calendars, constantly following everything that moves and turns in space, passes and comes in time. Despite our efforts to explain everything and connect all phenomena, time is always running out, irreversibly.
Time and Universe is an exhibition conceived as a journey from darkness to light, from chaos to cosmos, and framed by the story of the great scientist from Novi Sad. This exhibition cover the concept of time through centuries, as well as the relationships between humans, time and science. The author of the visual and artistic part of the exhibition is the multimedia artist Dušan Jovović, while the author of the narrative is Aleksandar Petrović, who has been researching Milanković's life and work for more than 50 years. It is an interactive multimedia exhibition and the authors used sculpture, mapped three-dimensional image, mechanical bodies, holograms, digital sound, but according to Jovović: "none of that as an effect, but as the essence".
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"This exhibition is a tribute to the time to which the whole universe is dedicated. Humans are masters of everything except themselves because they cannot control time. Therefore, they have a moral obligation to talk about time, because the awareness of it is the drive of life that disappears if the river of change is clouded by illusions or dried up by ignorance. Time is the identity and inversion of eternity, the energy of the universe as a conscious cosmos consciousness cannot encompass. It is consciousness in mind, sight in seeing, memory in feeling", says Petrović.
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"This exhibition is a tribute to the time to which the whole universe is dedicated. Humans are masters of everything except themselves because they cannot control time. Therefore, they have a moral obligation to talk about time, because the awareness of it is the drive of life that disappears if the river of change is clouded by illusions or dried up by ignorance. Time is the identity and inversion of eternity, the energy of the universe as a conscious cosmos consciousness cannot encompass. It is consciousness in mind, sight in seeing, memory in feeling", says Petrović.

The Time and Universe exhibition is not just an artistic interpretation of a certain topic. This exhibition is an evocation of all humanity, an interactive space within space, in which different times, myths of the past and understandings of the present rotate.
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You can visit this extraordinary exhibition in Studio M, throughtout the year of title of European Capital of Culture, and I strongly recommend that you do it as soon as possible. The experience is unusual, and you will come out with the realization that we are actually time, as silly as it may sound. And as Dante said: "And now, my reader, my miracle understands where things don't even move, and in the picture, change follows it."

Author: Katarina Klisura