Final guided tour at the end of the exhibition Analogue 1968 − Digital 2022
Final guided tour at the end of the exhibition Analogue 1968 − Digital 2022
UGM Studio, Trg Leona Štuklja 2
Saturday, 22 October 2022, 11:00
You are invited to the final guided tour at the end of the exhibition Analogue 1968 − Digital 2022, which will be led by the painter, graphic artist, educator and theoretician Bogdan Čobal, together with curator Breda Kolar Sluga.
Bogdan Čobal: "Unlike lithography, where the lithographic stone must be conclusively defined by printmaking processes and subsequent interventions are limited," says Bogdan Čobal, "the new digital visualisations, which have built on or deconstructed the basic graphic notation, offer endless possibilities of intervention. The design of the exhibition juxtaposes two worlds, two technological processes: lithography and the possibilities provided by computing tools."
The exhibition will feature computer-generated applications and lithographs of the artist's 1960s series Breakage of the Movement, Muted Stained Glasses, Thirsty Earth, and In the Core. These were inspired by the ideas of Yogi Ramacharaka, a journalist and publicist, as explained in his book Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism. The artist discusses the instinctive mind, the energy that shapes matter into crystals or bacteria, inanimate or animate matter.
Bogdan Čobal (b. 19 August 1942, Zrenjanin, Serbia) is a painter, graphic artist, art pedagogue, and gallerist who studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana from 1961 to his graduation in 1967 under Maksim Sedej. He has taught art education in primary schools, was the head of visual merchandising, advertising, and interior design at the Maribor Zarja trading company's Kvik commodity shop through 1970−75, and was a teacher of visual merchandising at Maribor's School Centre for Commodity Transport (Secondary School of Commerce) from 1975 to 1989. Then, from 1989 to 1999, he taught art theory and painting at the University of Maribor's Faculty of Education's Department of Art Pedagogy, where he was appointed assistant professor in 1988 and associate professor in 1997. Despite retiring in 1999, he continued to teach Graphics and Art at the Institute of Media Communications, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, and led the Graphic Design I and II practicum from 2003 to 2018. He has been a member of the Maribor Fine Artists Society (DLUM) since 1971, and a member of its bodies since 1975; he was the President (of the Management Board) of DLUM for several mandates, and the President of the Art Council until 2019.
