Matjaž Wenzel / exhibition opening
Matjaž Wenzel / exhibition opening
Matjaž Wenzel / Men Face Down
A Generation That Has Experienced Extensive Changes in the Social Fabric and Values, Growing up Idolising the Concept of Humanism Only to Mature into a World of Pragmatic Materialism
promenade in the Maribor City Park, Ulica heroja Tomšiča
Monday, 4 November 2024, 19:00
In November, an exhibition of black-and-white photographs by Matjaž Wenzel entitled Men Face Down will be on display along the promenade of the City Park, where you will follow well-known middle-generation from the world of art and culture in Maribor, in suspense. After the opening of the exhibition, which will be on Monday, 4 November, at 19:00 and will take place at the beginning of the promenade, we invite you to join us at wine bar Polek, Tyrševa ulica 13.
The series portrays male middle-aged artists/authors from Maribor, a generation that has undergone sweeping changes in values and the social fabric, growing up with humanism and coming of age in a world of pragmatic materialism. The presentation of public figures from a contrasting point of view as dictated by marketing practice is established both in the artistic aspect of the depiction of the reclining figure, and in the accompanying text that is based on intimate conversations with selected subjects. The honesty and the opening up of the most often ignored and silenced topics is something that establishes new dialogues and lines of reflection. The lying-prone position is thus a punctum, an irritation, a state of appeal, of messaging and warning. Explanations are multi-layered.
The exhibition is part of EKO 9 Triennial.
