Olga Jevrić: Proposals for Monuments

During the 1950s and 1960s Serbian artist Olga Jevrić (1922–2014) created a series of unrealised small-scale models for monumental public memorial sculptures in response to national competitions. Rubbing against the traditions of her country, Jevrić chose abstract sculpture over figuration. In the first showing of Jevrić's work in the UK for nearly half a century, this focused selection presents a mass of her sculptural experiments exploring scale, texture and the relationship of solid material to empty space. Inspired by medieval tombstones, and made from concrete and iron dust, her proposals are abstract volumetric forms small enough to fit in the hand, yet suggesting sculptures of monumental proportions.