Cveto Marsic
dal 21/11/2010 al 17/12/2010
Segnalato da
21/11/2010
Cveto Marsic
TR3 Gallery, Ljubljana
Nesting. In his new exhibition the Koper-born painter, as the title itself suggests, presents a series of new works inspired by the idea of the nest. Large-size canvasses and drawings expressly created for the exhibition's spaces, in which the idea of nesting, metaphorically conceived as the need for refuge, becomes a true nest in the heart of the canvas itself.
It is with great pleasure that we announce the opening of the exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Slovenian artist,
Cveto Marsič on Monday 22 November at 19.00 at the TR3 Gallery, Ljublajana.
In his new exhibition the Koper-born painter, as the title itself suggests, presents a series of new works inspired by the idea of the nest. Large-size canvasses and drawings expressly created for the exhibition’s spaces, in which the idea of nesting, metaphorically conceived as the need for refuge, becomes a true nest in the heart of the canvas itself. A moment of ideal abstraction from the world, or perhaps a concrete physical place to take refuge in from the flow of events, a place in the heart of the tempest, in the eye of the storm, where the matter of his works seems to subside, to flatten and let light come in, a place to hide among the pleats of a protective nature, conquered amid the dry leaves or dug into the damp soil, a shelter from where one may observe the occurrence of events without being part of them, as the universe all around, so similar to the material mixture of his works, is restless.
All this is perfectly visible in works such as Covered Great Nesting, Salty Dance or Mud Ritual, large-size works with a strong emotional impact, canvasses that can hardly contain the power of the matter that is upset and reshaped by the obsessive and chaotic movement of feet and hands, works that deal with the most primitive side of Marsic’s work: we could envisage him wandering barefoot on the horizontal surface of the big canvas, moving in circles and digging his nest just like a wolf. Cveto Marsič, born in 1960 in Slovenia, but currently living in Spain, has been in the last years highly coveted from many foundations and contemporary art museums that have acquired his works for their public collections. In 1998 Maria Corral, the director of the Fundación Caixa, and Dan Cameron, curator of the New Museum of Contemporary Art di New York, have purchased a big-size canvas for the collection of Madrid’s Fundación Arco; furthermore the Museum of Contemporary Art of Tenerife (IODACC), the Museu d’Art Contemporani of Palma de Mallorca, the Coleccion Esences of Barcelona, the Museum of Modern Art of Rijeka and the Investment Art Fund of the BCE have all enriched their collections with large-size canvasses by the Slovenian painter.
The exhibition in presented in collaboration with the Torbandena universe all around, so similar to the material mixture of his
Gallery (Trieste).
For further information please contact: Martina Pavlovič
galerija.tr3@gmail.com
Opening monday 22nd Novembre 2010 h 7pm
TR3 Gallery
Trg republike 3, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Open: 8.00-20.00, 8.00-13.00 Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays closed.
Free admission