Guided tour / Unfinished modernisations
Guided tour of the exhibition Unfinished modernisations / between utopia nad pragmatism
UGM | Maribor Art Gallery, Strossmayerjeva 6
Saturday, 24 March at 11.00
Guided by: Maruša Zorec, architect
Maruša Zorec, one of Slovenian leading architects and winner of Prešeren Fund Award 2012 will held guided tour of the exhibition Unfinished modernisations / between utopia nad pragmatism. The exhibition brings an overview of architectural projects and urbanistic plannings from the period of the former Yugoslavia. During socialist Yugoslavia, modernisation was presented unilaterally like an everyday collective achievement that should reveal the progress of workers' self-management and make people feel proud of it. The life of Yugoslavs was thus marked by megalomaniacal, almost utopian projects in the fields of industry, energetics, traffic logistics, urban planning. On the other hand, today this socialist utopianism is often a synonym for or taken as the "original sin" of unsuitable economic structures, ecological problems and social conflicts. The exhibition reviews and presents characteristic architectural and urban planning practices from the socialist period in relation to the social context from which they arose and defines their current image and character. The exhibition addresses, next to the aesthetic and technological perfection of the architectural and urbanistic achievements, the social viewpoint of the processes that influenced the development, progress and collapse of Yugoslavia.
Arhitect Maruša Zorec (1965, Maribor) graduated at the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana, where she has been senior lecturer since 2007. She is author of numerous architectural and urbanistic realisations, which were awarded several times. Special attention get the prohects of successful renovations of historical buildings in Slovenia (e.g. Ventrelli Villa complex, Seča near Portorož (with Ana Kučan and Robert Potokar), 1995-1998; Ravne Castle, Ravne na Koroškem (with Maša Živec and Ana Kučan), 2000-2004; Vetrinj Mansion, Maribor (with Matjaž Bolčina), 2008-2009; square and open-air altar, Brezje (with Martina Tepina), 2008; manor house, Ormož (with Maša Živec and Žiga Ravnikar), 2007-2011). She was awarded with Plečnik Award for regulation of square and open-air altar in Brezje (2009) and for renovation of Vetrinj Mansion in Maribor (2011), for renovation of Ormož Manour house she received Prešeren Fund Award (2012).
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