FUNDAMENTALS

100 YEARS OF MODERNISM

THE PRESENTATION OF REPUBLIC OF SERBIA ON THE 14 TH INTERNATIONAL

EXHIBITION

VENICE BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE

2014

PROJECT 14-14

One should start with the question of theme and even though they are very direct, almost
literal, they do not exclude symbolism and diversity of interpretations. Even the certain
numerical coincidences within the project itself, as well as in its relation to what it was
preceded by in the same place, or independently from it, the very nature of things is starting to
resemble the Latin saying OMNIA IN NUMERO ET MENSURA. But however you look at
it, methodologically measured, it is a concept based on a chain translations, multiple
relocation and alterations of the context, shapes and the visual angle. In that way the certain
exposure has been created, despite the fact that one architectural object has been chosen as a
paradigm (of modernity) of time but not of (modernity) style. The procedure has been
repeated hundreds of times so that there could remain only one. Architecture and its time are
in simultaneous fold of appearance and disappearance in front of us, giving us the opportunity
to present one basically narrative concept as a fundamental content of the Pavilion where we
are. What we now see is an architectural past, displayed, not to the present but to its own
light, where the question of the length principle of modernity is filmed – a media responsible
for key changes that occurred in the perception of the world and the life of a century and
(modernity) of one architecture.

Vladimir Milenkovic