16. 5. 2013 Lecture / Year '68 and consequences

Marko Pogačnik, Plaster casts of bottles, 1965-68, plaster, photo: UGM archive

Almost summer: three lectures on Slovenian sculpture
Year '68 and consequences
UGM | Maribor Art Gallery, Strossmayerjeva 6
Thursday, 16 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 second lecture is dedicated to Slovenian art scene in 1960s. Year 1968 is a miracoulous year of Slovenian modernism. Within two years (1967-1969) new avantgarde revives the historical one (Kosovel, Černigoj, constructivism), statue becomes kinetic object, colour object, OHO group anchors conceptualism and minimalism.

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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