Arača
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Arača is a medieval Romanesque church ruin located about 12 km north of Novi Bečej, Serbia. It was built around 1230 during administration of the Kingdom of Hungary.
‘Osnova ove impozantne crkve kao i prostorni raspored karakterističan je za franjevačke crkve u prelaznoj varijanti romanogotičkog stila (polukružni, blago prelomljeni luci i uzani, polukružno završeni prozori) upućuju na mogućnost da je građena krajem XII ili početkom XIII veka.’
Szépművészeti Múzeum: Three Women
Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest
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Lucrece /Judith
“Always beneath or above concrete events, I remain a prisoner of this alternative: the world as a real object that dominates me and devours me (like Judith) in suffering and in fear, or else the world as a pure fantasy which dissolves in my hands, which I destroy (like Lucrece thrusting home the dagger) without ever succeeding in possessing it. Perhaps, above all, the question for me is to escape this dilemma by finding a way in which the world and myself–object and subject–confront each other on an equal footing, as the matador stands before the bull.”
― Michel Leiris, Manhood: A Journey from Childhood into the Fierce Order of Virility
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Madonna
Grad Kusko (Peru)
” The life of civilized peoples in pre – Columbian America is a source of wonder to us, not only in its discovery and instantaneous disappearance, but also because of its bloody eccentricity, surley the most extreme ever concieved by an aberrant mind. Continious crime comitted in broad daylight for the mere satisfaction of deified nightmares, terrifying phantasmas, priests’ cannibalistic meals, ceremonial corpses, and streams of blood evoke not so much the historical adventure, but rather the blinding debauches described by the illustrious Marquis de Sade.”
‘This observation applies, it is true, mostly to Mexico. It may be that Peru represents a singular mirage, an incandescence of solar gold, a gleam, a troubling burst of wealth, but this does not correspond to reality. Cuzco, the capital of the Inca empire, lay on plateau, at the foot of a sort of fortified acropolis. The city was massive, of a heavy grandeur. Tall, tached houses, built in squares, of enormous rocks, with no exterior windows, no ornamentation, gave to the streets a somewhat dreary, sordid look. The architecture of the temples which looked down upon the roofs was equally bare; only the pediment was wholly covered with plaque of beaten gold. To this gold we must add the brilliantly colored fabrics which clothed the rich and elegant, but nothing could quite dispel the impression of wild seediness and, above all, of deadly uniformity.”
Georges Bataille, October
Writings on Laughter, Sacrifice, Nietzche, Un- Knowing
Photography: Luna Jovanović
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Kosmička planina i Maču Pikču
Pojam kosmička planina predstavlja objedinjujući naziv za fenomen izjednačavanja hrama sa središtem sveta.
‘‘Ali u pojedinim tradicijama Kosmos je oblikovan kao planina čiji vrh dodiruje Nebo: gore, gde se Nebo i Zemlja ponovo spajaju, jeste Središte sveta.
…Središte je tačno mesto gde se dešava prelom nivoa, gde prostor postaje svet.
Stvaranje uključuje preobilje stvarnosti, drugim rečima, erupciju Svetog u svet.”
Luna Jovanović, sva prava zadržana
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