Guided Tour for the Blind and Visually Impaired
GUIDED TOUR FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED / HEROES WE LOVE
Saturday, 11 July 2015 at 11.00
UGM| Maribor Art Gallery, Strossmayerjeva 6, Maribor
guided by: Brigita Strnad, UGM curator and students of arts education and art history
The guided tour of the exhibition Heroes We Love, socialist realism revised, case study: ex-Yugoslavia will be adjusted for the blind and visually impaired. Five selected examples of socialist realism from the region of former Yugoslavia constitute the foundation of the exhibition: the Soviet-inspired Monument to the Red Army Fighters by Antun Augustinčić; the heroic mural in Villa Bled by Slavko Pengov; the double relief of the Tomb of the Liberators of Belgrade by Rade Stanković; the monumental figurality of Monument to Resistance and Torment by Lojze Dolinar in Kraljevo; and the unrealized Monument to Marx and Engels by Vojin Bakić. A network of models, influences, parallels and divergences revolves around these five examples. As a parallel research component in the broader field of art and ideology we introduce interventions by contemporary artists, with a view to moving away from monuments of failed revolutions and striving toward contemporary approach to structuring memory.
The exhibition will be supplemented with the possibility of tactile experiences – the project Practical Handling Methods in the Development of Tactile Materials for blind and visually impaired in lum / SLUM was developed in collaboration with the Faculty of Education Maribor. The purpose of the project is to train students for the preparation and implementation of didactic materials to work with the blind and visually impaired in visual arts. Visitors who are blind or visually impaired will have the possibility of a tactile tour of selected artworks.
YOU ARE KINDLY INVITED!
The project is partially financed by the European Union through the European Social Fund. The project is implemented under the Operational Programme Human Resources Development for the period 2007-2013, developmental priorities 1. Promoting entrepreneurship and adaptability, and the priority guidelines 1.3 Scholarship schemes, within the approved operation "A creative way to practical knowledge."
UGM sponsor of the program for groups with special needs:
