Visual Bureaucrats
Visual Bureaucrats. Triple image separation / difficult image separation / multiple image exclusion. Most beautiful picture, more beautiful picture, beautiful picture (no title).
UGM l Maribor Art Gallery, Strossmayerjeva 6
Opening: Thursday, 16 September 2010 at 19.00
The three in Slovenia already acknowledged artists of distinct generations - Bojan Gorenec, Alen Ožbolt and Žiga Kariž - are linked up with joint artistic origin like reflection of one’s own artistic process and media as well as the image status. However their forming of the space and different “space occupation” reveal differences between them therefore the present project will be very interesting and above all quite unpredictable. There are many stories, myths, truths, half-truths and untruths about close or distance relationships between artists, their friendships, hatred and rivalry. Project title and exhibition will point out topics like collaboration, influence, differences and similarity. The artworks of the artists will be exhibited “mixed up”, in kind of an interactive relations and next to each other.
Bojan Gorenec (b. 1956) supplements the Slovenian art scene in a very popular and intense way. Over the past decades he focused on the creative process in the field of fine arts. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, at the Department of Design and attended advanced study courses in France, Germany, Belgium, Great Britain and Netherlands. Until 1985 he worked in the fields of graphic design and fine arts, afterwards he totally devoted himself to fine arts. He translated English and French texts in the fields of art, art theory and philosophy of art. At Gallery ŠKUC he published his translation of the work by Pleynet and Malevič in 1986. Bojan Gorenec has exhibited his work in numerous group and solo exhibitions including R-Evolution Of A Piece In Time (Miklova Hiša Gallery, 2009), Diverse Entrances – Second Line (Božidar Jakac Galley, Kostanjevica on the Krka, 2010). He has received various awards for his work, among others the Grand Prešeren Award in 1990. In 1996 he became assistant professor for painting and drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, today he is the dean of this institution.
Alen Ožbolt (b. 1966) studied sculpture at the Academies of Fine Arts and Design in Zagreb and in Ljubljana. He gained several grants for artists and attended at various “Artist in Residence” programmes (e.g. Studio Program and Arts Link). Among others he received the Grand Prešeren Award in 2003 for his solo exhibition Edge, Crying Game, Double, Encore at Museum of Modern Art. Between 1986 and 1995 he worked with Janez Jordan within the Painter, do you know your dues (VSSD) art group. He accomplished numerous art projects and exhibitions at home and abroad. Alen Ožbolt published essays in the field of visual arts, short articles and theoretical texts on different art spaces and art phenomena. In 1997 he compiled and published a book of short essays and articles – The Word Of A Painting (Analecta, Ljubljana). He is senior lecturer and superior of the Department of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana.
Žiga Kariž (b. 1973) represents the younger generation of artists working in the fields of painting through the use of media image and various new technological processes. He graduated and gained an MA in Fine Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. He has exhibited his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including Terror -= Decor: ART NOW (50th Venice Biennial, Slovenian Pavilion, 2003); Love is a Battlefield (in co-operation with Alen Ožbolt at Gallery Škuc, 2005), Lost Paradise (Kapsula Gallery, 2008), Beauty 73(09) (Alkatraz Gallery, 2009) and The Painter 73 (Ganes Pratt Gallery, 2010). In 2007 he changed his name to Janez Janša and signed between 2007 and 2010 his artistic work with this name. As the assistant professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana he teaches at the Department of Painting and Sculpture.
Production: Aksioma - Institution for conteporarily art
Coproduction: Maribor Art Gallery
Curator: Breda Kolar Sluga
