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Ars Aevi

TIME : 2016/2/18 16:55:02

This valuable if patchy international collection of contemporary art is displayed temporarily within the lumpsome Skenderija Centar.

The works were collected as donations for Bosnia after the 1990s conflict but remained unexhibited for almost two decades. The first attempt at displaying them has all the chipboard charm of a half-built budget supermarket. But a sponsorship drive by Italian coffee maker Illy hopes to raise enough funds to build it a stylish permanent home. The designs, by prize-winning architect Renzo Piano, are already drawn and if it goes ahead the new museum would wrap around the back of the History Museum where Tito Cafe now lies.