CHRONICLES / Log No.1
CHRONICLES / Log No.1
UGM | Maribor Art Gallery - first floor
Opening: Friday, 25 March 2016, at 19:00
UGM | Maribor Art Gallery and The Marignoli di Montecorona Foundation in collaboration with WE.ARE Institute are proud to present CHRONICLES / Log No.1, showing works by the artist JAŠA from the project UTTER / the violent necessity for the embodied presence of hope, Pavilion of Slovenia at the 56th La Biennale di Venezia.
UTTER was an apparatus with separate functions, at once a site-specific installation and a durational performance, used jointly for the entire duration of Biennale Arte 2015 in Venice: seven months, divided into twenty-nine weeks, six consecutive days each. JAŠA gathered a group of artistic collaborators engaged in a variety of disciplines and made use of the entire Biennale timeframe in order to disclose a dynamic orchestration of all elements: from literature to architecture, from painting to performance.
CHRONICLES / Log No.1 is a reflection on the process behind and during UTTER, following the conclusion of the project in November last year, and a homecoming hosted by UGM | Maribor Art Gallery, as the commissioner of the project. Through a series of works of different nature - drawing, writing, painting, sculpture - the exhibition investigates the sense of the centrality of ideas and objects in the process of formulating JAŠA’s work, providing simultaneously a framework on the project.
CHRONICLES / Log No.1 presents a series of UTTER preparatory drawings and notes created by JAŠA during the project as a diary of ’accumulated knowledge’, and shown in Maribor for the very first time courtesy of The Marignoli di Montecorona Foundation Contemporary Collection, which had supported the project during Biennale. This, together with a sculpture also entitled UTTER and a large scale painting They are convinced that it is all for the greater good, that this is for the sake of the sky executed throughout the performance in Venice.
The exhibition also presents photographic material and documentation of the process of preparation and development of the project. Furthermore, the public is accompanied throughout the space of the gallery by a sound piece; sound being one of the core elements of the performance at the Biennale project.
Finally, CHRONICLES / Log No.1 presents three fragments that result from the disassembling of the UTTER site-specific installation. Executed by the artist himself, so as to obtain works that now exist as autonomous large-scale sculptures.
The catalogue of the exhibition, published by Editoriale Umbra, and curated by Michele Drascek, will have contributions by Breda Kolar Sluga and Simona Vidmar of UGM, Drascek, Duccio K. Marignoli and Susan Sayre Batton, Deputy Director of the San José Museum of Art in California. The volume will be presented during the exhibition.
Artist Statement
artist: JAŠA
curator: Michele Drascek
artistic collaboration: Simone Settimo, Kuno Mayr, Bowrain, Giulio Peirè, Edison Pashkaj, Rosa Lux
assistant: Jure Kirbiš
production: UGM | Maribor Art Gallery, The Marignoli di Montecorona Foundation, WE.ARE Institute
UGM | Maribor Art Gallery
With its collection and programme of 20 special exhibitions a year – ranging from retrospective reviews of works by Slovenian authors to international festivals of contemporary art as well as architecture and design exhibitions – UGM importantly shapes both the art scene in Slovenia and internationally. www.ugm.si
The Marignoli di Montecorona Foundatio
Based in the city of Spoleto (Umbria, Italy), the Foundation undertakes activities in conjunction with other private and public educational or cultural institutions, to promote, enhance and disseminate studies and research, promote publication in the field of art history, curated exhibitions. Michele Drascek is the Curator of Projects. www.marignolifoundation.org
WE.ARE
WE.ARE is an Institute for Art Projects with bases in New York, Slovenia and Italy, formed by JAŠA (Artist), Rosa Lux (Artistic Director and Producer) and Michele Drascek (Curator). www.we-are.institute
JAŠA (Mrevlje-Pollak; born 1978, Ljubljana, Slovenia), lives and works in New York and Ljubljana. One of Slovenia’s most prolific and critically recognised contemporary artists, JAŠA is driven by his rhapsodic interpretations of situation, narrative, sculpture and performance, transforming spaces into experiences, driving them toward their poetic and aesthetic potentials. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions and has been featured and participated in many international group shows. www.jasha.org
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