Marjetica Potrc
dal 28/10/2003 al 30/11/2003
Segnalato da
28/10/2003
Marjetica Potrc
Moderna Galerija Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana
The basic element of the exhibition in Moderna galerija is a kiosk, originally designed by a Slovenian designer and architect Sasa J. Machtig in the late 1960s. The installation combines these kiosks with a temporary building structure modeled on the South American palafita, at the same time making reference to building strategies from Rural Studio in Alabama, USA, and the illegal rooftop houses of Belgrade.
Next Stop, Kiosk
Marjetica Potrc is lately focusing on the phenomenon of growing cities
(e.g. cities in East Asia). In 2003 she was part of the Caracas Case
Project team, who spent six months exploring unregulated and rapidly
growing urban structures in Caracas, Venezuela. In museums and galleries
Potrc often presents case studies (buildings) which are based on specific
examples taken from contemporary cities (e.g. the activities of Rural
Studio in Alabama, USA, Barefoot College in India, and Leidsche Rijn in
Utrecht, the Netherlands). Most of her case studies underscore the role of
individual initiative and self-sustainability in solving the problems of
energy, communication and utility infrastructure in the global city.
The basic element of the exhibition in Moderna galerija is a kiosk,
originally designed by a Slovenian designer and architect Sasa J. Mächtig
in the late 1960s. The installation combines these kiosks with a temporary
building structure modeled on the South American palafita, at the same
time making reference to building strategies from Rural Studio in Alabama,
USA, and the illegal rooftop houses of Belgrade. With this latest hybrid,
Marjetica Potrc offers us a kind of 'breathing place,' as she calls it, a
place where we are invited not only to ponder a new approach to planning
and creativity but also to reconsider the transitory and mobile character
of today's urban spaces, both in regard to questions of power, (self-)
perception, cultural representation, and the imagination, and also in
terms of the contemporary city's relationship to the values and legacies
of modernism.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue, co-published by Moderna
galerija Ljubljana and Revolver - Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, which
presents an overview of the artist's work over the past five years and
includes essays by the curator of the exhibition, Zdenka Badovinac, Goran
Tomèiæ, writings of Marjetica Potrc and her interview with Hans Ulrich
Obrist and is edited by LÃvia Páldi..
Opening reception at 8.00 p.m., Wednesday, 29 October
Press conference: Wednesday, 29 October 2003, at 1 p.m.
Opening view: Wednesday, 29 October 2003, at 8 p.m.
OPENING HOURS: Tuesday - Sunday: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
PRESS CONTACT: Adela Zeleznik, phone (+386-1)2416808, fax (+386-1)2514120
Moderna galerija Ljubljana
Tomsièeva 14, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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