3. 5. 2020–8. 11. 2019 Staying at Home with Zbirka UGM / Ludvik Pandur - Mariborians

Staying at Home with Zbirka UGM / Ludvik Pandur - Mariborians

The human figure, be it in a genre scene or a portrait, isolated, surrounded with still-life or peers, prevailed for many years in Pandur’s canvases, pastels and drawings. This approach was a result of Pandur’s training at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts and his own, personally critical attitude to events around him. Nevertheless, the treatment of the figure has changed through time – the treatment of the space into which it is positioned as well as the power and role of colour. The initial, spatially well-defined works soon gave way to the figure recognisable only as far as their waist, and blending into the space defined by the increasingly intense chromatic orchestration. Mariborians was painted at a time when Pandur’s painting occupied a crossroad between the prevailing pictorial effects – when the storming brush stroke erases all traces of objectivity – and the painterly, more compact figuralism connected with Pandur’s collaborative work in Krsto Hegedušič’s master studio; but most of all with his admiration for the visual splendour of the works of the Baroque masters. Both paths remain open to this day. Ludvik Pandur painted the people of his hometown as a contemporary, and with a brush stroke that is given a specific vitality by the power of tradition of all forms of colour expression.