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10/9/2008

Two Exhibitions

International Centre of Graphic Arts MGLC, Ljubljana

A Third Look
The Multiplicity of of Graphic Arts Today
Curated by mag. Breda Škrjanec and Božidar Zrinski

Nearly 100 works of 25 artists show the diversity of contemporary Slovene graphic art, its role in the context of contemporary art, and its connections with other reproducible media.

These artists do not confine their art only to the print; they also work with viedo, photography, computer projects, and artist's books. They understand graphic art as an independent form of artistic expression with its own formal characteristics and rich expressive possibilities. They associate the medium with reproducibility, by means of which they create new wholes in both subject matter and concept. In their works thew underscore an awareness of the printed and multiplied surface as having the potential to create a unique communicative platform that is able to reach a mass audience with a large edition or that can be an intimate but no less powerful story with only a few copies.

Beli sladoled, Short Striptease and Antijokes (A Collection of Jokes and Short Comics), self-published, Ljubljana 2005–2006 – Postojna 2007, 123 pp., edition of 100, photocopy publication, hardbound, color/hand-sprayed cover

The artists presented in the exhibition are:
Beli sladoled [Miha Perme in Leon Zoudar], Martina Bohar, Berko, BridA [Tom Kerševan, Sendi Mango in Jurij Pavlica], Peter Ciuha, Vesna Drnovšek, Irma Gnezda, Dejan Habicht, Ištvan Išt Huzjan, Matej Košir, Dominik Križan, Tanja Lažetić, Tomaž Lunder & Huiqin Wang, Sonja Makuc, Nataša Mirtič, Jasmina Nedanovski, Arjan Pregl, Maja Strmecki, Gorazd Šimenko, Tomaž Tomažin, Manja Vadla, Barbara Eva Zavodnik, umetniški projekt Reartikulacija in projekt Stripble.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue in Slovene and English: Tretji pogled, Raznolikost grafike danes / A Third Look, The Multiplicity of Graphic Art Today.

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Gabrijel Stupica
Resistance
11 September - 9 November 2008
Curated by dr. Jure Mikuž

Gabrijel Stupica (b., Dražgoše, 1913 – d., Ljubljana, 1990) was one of the giants of twentieth-century Slovene art. He helped to shape the country’s artistic identity both as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, where he taught several generations of artists, and through his artwork, which in the 1950s and 1960s displayed the Western-oriented style of figural existential intimism.

Gabrijel Stupica, Mourners, from the series Resistance, 1962, gouche Gabrijel Stupica, The Truck, from the series Resistance, 1962, gouche

The exhibition focuses on a series of twelve previously unknown small-format gouaches made sometime around 1958; these works have never been on public view. They were created as part of a proposal for decorating the halls of the People’s Assembly of the People’s Republic of Slovenia (today’s Parliament). In 1957, Gabrijel Stupica was one of a group of Slovenia’s finest artists who were asked to adorn the interior of the new building. He proposed a monumental triptych on the subject of resistance and oppression, illustrated by a central image of protesters that would be flanked by two pictures of market women. The committee rejected the proposal on the grounds that it did not show the reality of the age, that it was too modern, and that its subject was unacceptable, and instead they awarded the commission to Slavko Pengov.

Opening 11 September at 8 pm

International Centre of Graphic Arts
Pod turnom 3, Ljubljana

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