Virtual Exhibition / THE CORNER OF DECANSKA ST AND MAKEDONSKA ST
Monday-Monday / AUGUST 22 – SEPTEMBER 17, 2022 / SASA Gallery of Science and Technology
What in ancient Greece was a square, a sunny public space where people go out, meet, have social life, give speeches, make conspiracies and make coups, where lovers are found, art is created and verses are spoken, it is for the Serbs, because of the climate where they live, a cafe – a place where people meet and where many important things happen in our lives.
Momo Kapor
If we go for a walk along Makedonska Street, even today we may sit down to have a drink in some of the bars in the area that was known back then as the Bermuda Triangle, and the reason why some older generations gave it the infamous name is rather witty. If the town’s stories are to be believed, many wandered here, and for days they did not manage to find a way out of the triangle formed by the taverns “Pod Lipom”, “Sumatovac”, and “Grmec”. The most frequent guests were journalists from Politika, Borba and Radio Belgrade, famous actors, and musicians whose music is still listened to with pleasure. Poems, books and columns were written amid the spirits and smoke of cigarettes, which left behind full ashtrays that the waiters could not replace quickly enough. Inside the Bermuda Triangle, the spirit of a time, perhaps a better one, was being created. If we were to rewind the film back to the turn of the 20th century, and further into the past, the high tide of the bohemian spirit that reigned all throughout Belgrade would have astounded us. Back then, there was one “kafana” per every fifty residents, while in Makedonska St alone, 17 out of 40 buildings were kafanas.
