Guided tour / Marko Pogačnik
Guided tour of the exhibition Marko Pogačnik / Survey Exhibition 1962-2012: Art Descending Upon the Earth
UGM | Maribor Art Gallery, Strossmayerjeva ul. 6
Saturday, 25 May 2013 at 11:00
guided by: Marko Pogačnik, artist
Marko Pogačnik will held a guided tour of the survey exhibition of his work Art Descending Upon the Earth. The theme of the exhibition especially emphasises the artist's work in the field of integral ecology. He has been developing different approaches to cooperate with the Earth's consciousness and nature's manifold worlds, whether in the form of Earth acupuncture (lithopuncture) or of geomantic interpretations of individual places and landscapes. Another exhibition theme opens the question of how can art contribute to the transformation of the human civilisation on Earth, which is becoming increasingly destructive. The exhibition unfolds different possibilities of using artistic language in the communication with nature's consciousness and the rise of human self-perception − both in relation to the multi-dimensionality of life and space.
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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