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Umetničku komunu „Porodica bistrih potoka“ osnovao je Božidar Mandić 1977. godine u zaseoku Brezovica pod planinom Rudnik. Načela komune su: Filozofija zemlje, Otvoreni dom, Siromašna ekonomija i Umetnost, a neguju se vrednosti kao što su iskrenost, hrabrost, skromnost, istina, ljubav, dobro, mir, rad i sreća.

Izložba „NATRAG – Božidar Mandić i Porodica bistrih potoka (1969 – 2015)“ tematizuje život i rad Božidara Mandića, jednog od najznačajnijih aktera avangardne umetničke prakse u okviru „Tribine mladih“ s kraja 1960-ih i početkom 1970-ih godina u Novom Sadu. Izložba je održana u Muzeju savremene umetnosti Vojvodine u Novom Sadu od 17. septembra do 18. oktobra 2015. godine. Na izložbi su prikazani filmovi i drugi radovi iz Božidarovog novosadskog perioda, foto-dokumentacija, kao i brojni eksponati od prirodnog materijala nastali u komuni. Po rečima Božidara Mandića „Porodica bistrih potoka je mala utopija. Šansa ovog čovečanstva je u malim, a ne velikim utopijama“.

This collection consists primarily of the items confiscated by the Securitate on 1 April 1977, on the occasion of the house search and arrest of the driving force behind an emerging movement in defence of human rights in Romania, Paul Goma, a writer censored in Romania but successful abroad. A particular feature of this collection is that the confiscated items were not destroyed, but were preserved by the Securitate and finally transferred to CNSAS in 2002, from where they were returned to Goma in 2005. Thus, the collection is one of the few which travelled after 1989 from Romania into exile and is now to be found in Paris, where Goma was forced to emigrate a few months after his arrest and the confiscation of the collection.

The Pavao Tijan Collection is deposited in the Archives of the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts in Zagreb. It demonstrates the cultural-oppositional activities of the Croatian émigré Pavao Tijan, who lived in Madrid after the Second World War. There, Tijan organized anti-communist activities against the Yugoslav regime and also against global communism during the time of the Cold War. This collection is very important to the little known Croatian cultural history of the émigré colony of Spain.