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Mitja Ficko / Please, feel on my behalf, while I'm gone
UGM Studio, Trg Leona Štuklja 2, Maribor
opening+guided tour: Friday, 27 May 2016, at 19:00

Ficko's paintings encourage the senses and intuitive perception of the observer. Transitions into the magical world full of bizarre creatures and presences open up behind the daily reality. The surplus value is mostly a part of the same world we are looking at ourselves, without sensing its primal magic behind the reality's membrane. Ficko's painting is deeply personal and therefore vital and thoroughbred. His inspiration derives from personal experience, yet despite his immense success he remains down to earth. Nadja Gnamuš wrote: "Ficko's painting brings back the ability to sense the miraculous." With this in mind, the exhibition will offer an opportunity for a deep experience of the miraculous within and around us.

The exhibition will present paintings and drawings from the 2015−2016 period.

Mitja Ficko (born 1973 in Murska Sobota) is a painter of the younger generation. He studied painting under Professors Janez Bernik and Gustav Gnamuš at the Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts. He graduated in 1999 and attained his Master's degree under Professor Metka Krašovec in 2002. He has received several awards and grants, among them the Golden Bird Award for visual arts in 2003. He lives and works in Ljubljana and Mohor. 

 

Artist Statement 

 

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