{"id":1682,"date":"2013-02-07T16:25:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T16:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2013-07-17T14:13:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T14:13:07","slug":"how-the-billboard-wars-led-to-actual-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/how-the-billboard-wars-led-to-actual-war\/","title":{"rendered":"How the \u201cBillboard wars\u201d led to actual war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2352\" alt=\"strasni\" src=\"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/app\/uploads\/2010\/09\/strasni-300x115.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"115\" \/>The premises of BiH Arts Gallery hosted the exhibition \u201cSTRA\u0160NIZBORI\u201d on 16<sup>th<\/sup> of September by known photographer Milomir Kova\u010devi\u0107 Stra\u0161ni with current address in Paris. Other than the Center Municipality, no other official institution supported the exhibition. Other supporters included UG \u201cZa\u0161to ne\u201d, Center \u201cAndre Malraux\u201d, festival MESS and Arts Gallery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was here in December last year, I heard of preparations for elections and remembered the exhibition \u2018Rat plakata\u2019 (Billboard war) which we organized in the 90-s, then we looked at our archives and got to the idea to organize another exhibition 20 years later. We want to get people thinking and send out a message of importance to participate in elections and that every vote matters\u201d, stated Milomir. In 1990, from 1<sup>st<\/sup> of October to 18<sup>th<\/sup> of November he spent every day walking around the city taking photographs of billboards and other propaganda material of political parties which participated in elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome put up billboards, others tore them down so I named the entire series \u201cbillboard wars\u201d. Later on it turned into a actual war. Portraits of party leaders were everywhere, mixing with the day to day life of the city\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition can be viewed every day except Sunday in the Art Gallery from 9<sup>th<\/sup> of October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The premises of BiH Arts Gallery hosted the exhibition \u201cSTRA\u0160NIZBORI\u201d on 16th of September by known photographer Milomir Kova\u010devi\u0107 Stra\u0161ni with current address in Paris. Other than the Center Municipality, no other official institution supported the exhibition. Other supporters included UG \u201cZa\u0161to ne\u201d, Center \u201cAndre Malraux\u201d, festival MESS and Arts Gallery. \u201cWhen I was here &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/how-the-billboard-wars-led-to-actual-war\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zasto-ne-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}