9. 5. 2013 Lecture / Body and art

Almost summer: three lectures on Slovenian sculpture 
Body and art
UGM | Maribor Art Gallery, Strossmayerjeva 6
Thursday, 9 May 2013 at 18:00
lecture by: Tomaž Brejc, PhD, art historian and art critic

Tomaž Brejc will held a series of lectures on Slovenian sculpture in the 20th and 21st century. The first lecture will capture the question of body in sculpture. Art development in the first half of 20th century is unusually slow. The statue is stylized body all the time, shifting from secession to Meštrović: from Alojzij Gangl to Lojze Dolinar. In the 1920s robust, haptic rural sensuality prevails (Kralj brothers), which is replaced by burgeois poetic realism in the next two decades (Kalin brothers, Karel Putrih). In socialism body is "robed" in ideology (public monuments), following gradual transformation into abstract figure in the second half of 1950s (Jakob Savinšek, Drago Tršar). First objects are made in late 1960s (Slavko Tihec, Neoconstructivists, OHO). Why is mimetic, depicting model so firmly anchored, almost immovable? Does it reflect the slow transformation od Slovenian rural tradition into burgeois, socrealistic, consumer and media society?

Tomaž Brejc (1946, Ljubljana) obtained PhD in European sources for Slovenian impressionism (1979). He was professor at Academy of fine arts in Ljubljana from 1980 and its dean in 1991. He is author of numerous articles, art critiques and books, he curated numerous exhibitions, among them the first triennial of contemporary art U3 at Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana (1994). For outstanding research achievements in art history he received Izidor Cankar prize (2009).

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