The Exhibition ‘Pocitelj in Summer and Winter’ shows 33 Years of Creativity

The exhibition was opened by Amina Rizvanbegović Džuvić, Director of the Bosniak Institute, Aida Abadžić Hodžić, an Art Historian and the Artist himself.

Aida Abadžić Hodžić, explained Obralić's work: "Distancing himself from an over-intimate view, as he simplifies and cooles down, Salim Obralić is also achieving a synthesis of all his previous artistic experiences as he confronted the subject of Počitelj. These Počitelj lanscapes were created over a long period and constitute the sum of both the artist's process of maturing and his experiences with different media on the one hand, and his own experiences of life on the other. Just as one can never stand twice in the same river, so too one's view of Počitelj can never be the same. But Obralić, still restless as he faces his subject, still constantly working-up earlier compositions, seems to retain an open mind as he seeks the final tones to achieve "well-nourished symbols"."

From left to right: Amina Rizvanbegović Džuvić, Director of the Bosniak Institute, Aida Abadžić Hodžić, an Art Historian and Salim Obralić, the Artist / Photo by Islamic Arts Magazine

Highlights from the exhibition

Salim Obralić / Kamenica (Stone House) on Modrić, oil on canvas / Photo by Islamic Arts Magazine

Salim Obralić / Kamenica (Stone House), 135x135 cm, oil on canvas, 1981 / Photo by Islamic Arts Magazine

Salim Obralić / Kamenica (Stone House), 135x135 cm, 1984 / Photo by Islamic Arts Magazine

Salim-Obralić / The Hill at Jablanica, 135x135 cm, oil on canvas, 1986 / Photo by Islamic Arts Magazine

Salim-Obralić / Winter landscape, 135x135 cm, oil on canvas, 1986 / Photo by Islamic Arts Magazine

Salim Obralić / Summer in Počitelj, 135x135 cm, oil on canvas, 1987 / Photo by Islamic Arts Magazine

Salim Obralić / The day full of foreboding, 100x135 cm,1989 / Photo by Islamic Arts Magazine

Salim Obralić / Big drought, 80x100 cm, 2007-2012 / Photo by Islamic Arts Magazine

Salim Obralić / The house on the sun, 135x135 cm, 1989 / Photo by Islamic Arts Magazine

Salim Obralić / The house in Počitelj, 135x135 cm, 1989 / Photo by Islamic Arts Magazine

Salim Obralić

Salim Obralić / Photo by Islamic Arts Magazine

Salim Obralić was born in 1945 in town Maglaj in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He graduated from the Fine Arts Academy in Belgrade in 1971. He pursued his post-graduate studies in painting at the same Academy gaining his higher degree in 1974. He has been a member of the Association of Artists of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1972. He is a full time professor at the Fine Arts Academy in Sarajevo. Since 1970 he has shown his work at numerous exhibitions home and abroad. In more then thirty years of his painting he received over twenty awards for his work.

The exhibition will run until September 2012 and is absolutely worth seeing.