Grayson Perry –

The Vanity of Small Differences

Gallery N: The Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina

Duration: 7 April – 20 May, 2017.

Producers: British Council (BC), MSUV

Curator from MCAV: Sanja Kojić Mladenov

The British Council, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina and KPMG are pleased to announce the exhibition of British artist Grayson Perry ’’The Vanity of Small Differences’’ which will be held from 7th April to 20th May. Novi Sad, being the European Capital of Culture 2021, is the first of the five western Balkans cities where The British Council is going to present this exhibition till the end of this year.

Following the huge success of the ’’New Religion’’ by Damien Hirst, this exhibition is the way in which The British Council continues its cooperation with the museums in this region in order to present the best of the British contemporary art and to improve the museum practices and invigorate the exchange of experiences of the UK and our experts through the work on preparation and realisation of the project.

Grayson Perry – Agony on the parking 2012 © All rights belong to the artist.

Victoria Miro Artist and Gallery Gallery with support from Channel 4, Art Fund and Sfumato Foundation and additional support from Alix Partners.

The “Little Difference Distraction” exhibition consists of six monumental tapestries that explore British fascination with style and class differences.

Grayson Perry is one of the most celebrated British contemporary artists of his generation, known for his ceramics, sculpture, drawings, graphics and tapestries, as well as for unconventional gender identity and eccentric, female alter-ego, Claire. He was awarded the prestigious Turner Prize in 2003. He uses the experience of folk art and traditional crafts to create highly decorative works of intimate content, often disturbing the elitist divisions within the academic art scene and making it more open for experiments.

’’The Vanity of Small Differences’’ consists of six large-scale tapestries, eight prints of William Hogarth’s works, 20 facsimiles and three documentary films made during Perry’s travels through Britain in the preparatory phase of the project. The exhibition is jointly owned by The British Council Collection and Arts Council Collection and managed by London’s Southbank Centre. It was a gift of the author and the ’Victoria Miro’ Gallery and was realised with the support of Channel 4 Television, Art Fund organisation, Sfumato Foundation and AlixPartners company.

The exhibition is organised by The British Council and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina in partnership with European Capital of Culture Novi Sad 2021, with suport from Ministry of Culture and Information of Republic of Serbia, the Provincial Secretariat for Culture, Public Information and Relations with Religious Communities, City of Novi Sad Directorate for Culture and KPMG.