25. 1. 2025 Ferdo Mayer / exhibition opening

Ferdo Mayer / An Artist Dedicated to Colour
UGM Kabinet, Strossmayerjeva ulica 6
Saturday, 25 January 2025, 11:00

curator: Saša Bučan, curator at the Gallery Miha Maleš 

In partnership with the Kamnik Intermunicipal Museum – Gallery Miha Maleš we are opening an exhibition  Ferdo Mayer / An Artist Dedicated to Colour on Saturday, 25 January 2025, at 11:00. It is a selection of works by the painter Ferdo Mayer, who spent his first 27 years in Maribor, where he was born. He first displayed his artwork in his hometown in 1941 while still a high school student. He had a solo exhibition there in 1954. Additionally, he relocated to Kamnik for work in this year. A selection of his extensive body of work is on display in this exhibition

Ferdo Mayer managed to devote his life to young people while also constantly researching painting and developing his own distinctive artistic language, which alternated between figure and abstract narrative. He found inspiration for both realistic and symbolic compositions in the real world, and he frequently tailored his painting technique to the character of the motif. The movement between abstract art language and concrete visual narrative, as well as the search for their synthesis, is most obvious throughout the mature creative era. Ferdo Mayer's paintings have various influences from contemporary events, but whether figural or abstract, we see a real commitment towards what is painted.