GTR je ukrasio Beograd muralima znamenitih partizanovaca, poput pesnika Brane Petrovića GTR is decorated with murals of famous Belgrade Partizan fans, like the poet Brane Petrović
the sports fans’universe, started with the word and a verse. And around this verse gathered all those Partizan fans who suf- fered from that blasphemous disorder of perception – that they see the world with their own eyes, and not someone else’s. And there are a lot of such“freaks”among Partizan fans, because this is a club which has art at its core; its name is pARTizan, after all. Poetry and prose, oil paintings on canvas and philosophical essays, re- worked (repaired) so that they celebrate PARTizan. Yesenin again walked the streets, “dishevelled, with a black-and-white scarf like a torch in the dark”; the administra- tion of Partizan FC were threatened by Gogol’s auditor; Malevich-inspired goal- keeper Omerović, and Warhol defender Rojević; the authentic thoughts of Dio- genes were dug up, and Seneca – “Vita brevis, ars pulchra, Partisanus aeternus”, Hippocrates-amended-by-Seneca, and the thoughts of Epictetus, Schopenhau- er, and Nietzsche. The public was stunned to discover that hundreds of famous people shared the spirit of PARTizan fans. First it was adapted poetry that in- spired the movement and its Facebook page.
Then an exhibition of fine art was held
in a Belgrade gallery.
It was followed by another exhibition and a successful auction at the Parabrod Culture Centre. Then they turned to murals of pAR- Tizan fans – ranging from writers like Duško Radović and George Orwell, to ac- tors Zoran Radmilović and Boro Todor- ović, the painter Ljuba Popović, musicians Eddie Grant and Steven Patrick Morrissey (“The Smiths”). Then the theatre play Kadinjača was performed once again at the Parabrod Cul- ture Centre. Where else would be the place to present the glory of a club nicknamed “steamroller”? The links are deep and mystical. Just to show that nothing with artistic poten- tial should be ignored, GTR last year held a fashion show, all in black and white, of course. At the end of this month will follow their new exhibition, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of pARTizan winning the title of European champions in basket- ball. That title was brought to Partizan by Aleksandar Đorđević, with a three-point- er in the dying seconds of the game; the ball slid obediently down the net like a drop of water.
Slobodan Rojević, partizanov bek iz osamdesetih, u stilu Endija Vorhola Partizan defender of the eighties, Slobodan Rojević, in the style of Andy Warhol
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