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 6
Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 18:00
guided by: Marko Pogačnik, artist
Marko Pogačnik will held a last guided tour before the closure of the survey exhibition 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. Together with his wife Marika, he builds installations made of natural materials, which offer an immediate experience of invisible dimensions of space to visitors. In the Knights' Hall of Maribor Art Gallery, they set up the installation Art Descending upon the Earth which creates a relation to the 19-century ceiling frescos presenting famous battles of the Holly Roman Empire of the German Nation.
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