Location: Monfort Gallery Portorož |
From the 5th of July until the 26th of July 2019 |
From the 2nd of August untile the 23rd of August 2019 |
Opening: 5th of July 2019, at 8.30 p.m.
Robertina Šebjanič, Aleš Hieng – Zergon, Ida Hiršelfelder: Časovni zamik/Kemobrionični vrt (Ljudmila, Zavod Projekt Atol, 2015)
Tilen Sepič: Svetlobni oscilator (Ljudmila, zavod projekt Atol, Svetlobna gverila, 2016)
Gašper Milkovič Biloslav, Mitja Cerkvenik, Marko Turkuš, Marko Vivoda: Radia (PiNA, 2019)
Since 2013 Contemporary Art IZIS Festival continues its path on the initiative of artists and cultural producers that work actively in the Slovenian Istria pursuing their goal of supporting contemporary art throughout the region.
The festival will take place in two parts, from the 5th of July until the 26th of July 2019, and again from the 2nd of July until the 23rd of August 2019.
This year’s news will be the fair that will be held near Monfort from Tuesday until Sunday, from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m., and again from 8 p.m. until 10 p.m., until the 26th of July 2019, and during the second part until the 23rd of August 2019.
At the exhibition, 8 artworks of Slovenian artists will be on view, some of them produced thans to the support of PiNA, who’s authors are also members of the group of artist and producers of the festival.
The festival will be accompanied by the exhibitions of Albert Novello, Zavod Sploh, Luxas and Gašper Torkar. Irena Z. Tomažin, performer, dancer and singer, will open the festival.
We kindly ask you to confirm your presence at the opening until the 1st of July 2019 at info@pina.si.
The IZIS Festival is organized by PiNA, in collaboration with Piran Coastal Galleries, Ljudmila Association, Project Institute Atol, Svetlobno Gverilo, Portorose, Sploh Institute, KID Kiblo and the Workers house of Trbovlje, with the support of European Regional Development Fund Association, il Ministry of Culture, Municipality of Piran, JSKD and MCRuk. Sponsor of the event will be Radio Student.
IZIS # 7 – Invasion
IZIS has the goal of inserting Medieval Art in Slovenian Istria program.
The group of artis and producers that created the Festival merged a collaboration with Piran Coastal Galleries, occupying its exhibition space Monfort Gallery with artworks produced by PiNA, from Koper, who’s authors are also members of the same group of Slovenian artist that work with new media.
Invasion, at first associated to enemies invasions, is based upon recent facts, with which IZIS confronts itself.
IZIS will invade Monfort on its highest turistic season, a moment of notorious and more than welcom invasion from tourists themsleves. In a place where the bet is mainly on the splendour of its sea, it is shown that the proximity to its invasors is not casual.
Perhaps the answer to the frightening slogan of threat, of invasions and its consequences – from the most volatile forms of capital, to the emergence of the most rudimentary walls – is invasion itself. The invasion as a barrier, which should accept an unstoppable intrusion, which in the face of the modern bustle typical of our time should reconsider the perception of the whole. The question is: what is ours? What is attacked and what is defended? What is the limit of thought and perception that gives rise to this feeling? And can art, in its own way, respond to real and imagined threats? Or at least bring forth the realization that our confusion is no less than that evoked by the ending of Constantine Cavafy’s poem Waiting for the barbarians, which ends thus:
“Now what will happen to us without the barbarians?
Those people were a solution."
One solution for IZIS is invasion.
You are invited to join us.
IZIS Festival Program Team
