Geomantic workshop
The Maribor area as an elementary being
meeting point: UGM | Maribor Art Gallery, Strossmayerjeva 6
Saturday, 30 March 2013 at 9:00-17:00
guided by: Marko Pogačnik, artist
Gaia, the elementary consciousness of our planet holds its intelligence points in a city's landscape in order to enable the prosperity of civilisation. Do we honour these points or use them to our selfish advantage? What is the situation in Maribor? The workshop is organised in collaboration with the Association for the Coexistence of Human Beings, Nature and Space VITAAA from Ljubljana. No previous knowledge needed.
Marko Pogačnik (1944, Kranj) was a member of the Conceptual group OHO (1965-1971). He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana (1963-1967). In 1971, together with his friends he began joining art and life (land art) and established a commune in Šempas in Vipavska valley. With his wife Marika and daughters Ajra, Nike and Ana he has developed a new artistic practice called »lithopuncture«. This involves positioning stone pillars on selected landscape points to balance the flow of energy in selected area. Special signs (called cosmograms) carved in the stones act on the consciousness of the space with vibrations of the carved information. Pogačnik has raised his lithopunctural points in Slovenia and abroad. For his 1991 retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana he was awarded with the Prešeren Fund Prize.
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