JAŠA: REKVIEM |
Site-specific spatial intervention, exhibition and performance, Tartini House, Piran |
Opening event: June 22, 2024 |
Exhibition: June 22, 2024 – September 7, 2024


JAŠA, detail, production – work in progress, 2024. Photo: Tjaša Gnezda
JAŠA: REKVIEM
Program of the opening event
June 22, 2024, Tartini House, Piran
Free entry
12:00 – 16:00 Opening of the exhibition
13:00 – 14:00 Guided tour with curator Laura Rositani
14:30 – 15:30 Guided tour with curator Laura Rositani
15:30 – 16:00 Bowrain: solo piano performance
16:00 – 21:30 Performance
Available appointments at 16:00, 17:30, 19:00, 20:30
Due to limited capacities, prior registration for the desired performance appointment is mandatory until its full seat capacity is reached at: info.casatartini@gmail.com
The performance lasts 1 hour.
The exhibition was awarded to the artist as part of the special 2023 Tartini Award at the 58th Ex-tempore Piran. The Award is being presented by the Giuseppe Tartini Italian Community.
In collaboration with the Piran Self-Governing Community of Italian Nationals, Piran Coastal Galleries and the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre
Rekviem is an interdisciplinary work that transcends traditional art forms . By fusing visual arts, performance, architectural interventions, puppet art, poetry and music, JAŠA creates a new comprehensive entity that blurs the lines between reality and constructed space. This approach engages all senses, allowing the viewers to immerse themselves fully in the experience.
Requiem generally refers to a musical composition for those who are no longer with us, a final tribute to the deceased. JAŠA’s Rekviem holds a special dedication to his late father, the esteemed psychiatrist Gorazd V. Mrevlje, who recently passed away. In this tribute, his father is one of the three protagonists represented by marionettes. These marionettes were crafted by the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre according to the author’s design and in collaboration with artist Meta Grgurevič. The marionettes—Father, Author, and Giuseppe Tartini, the renowned 18th-century violinist and composer—inhabit a parallel, extratemporal reality, with which JAŠA challenges the notion of an ending.
The exhibition setup encompasses most of the museum rooms at the Tartini House. JAŠA utilises these spaces, incorporating them as ready-made objects alongside selected existing exhibit items. Combined with visual, sound, musical and situational interventions, these spaces are transformed into living pictures. They serve both as complete units and as fragments of a story that weaves through the entire architecture of the house.
The opening event will feature live performances by puppeteers Lovro Finžgar, Polona Kores and Martina Maurič Lazar from the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, musicians KALU and Bowrain, performer Mattias Gingliano, theatre group Al tempo di Tartini, Bela Mrevlje and others.
»Casa Tartini becomes a gathering of parallels, as JAŠA defines it, a bouleversement of situations, figures and sounds. It is the architecture of a dream, which shifts and changes continuously. The house itself, its rooms overturn and move as in a magnificent Piranesi architecture. It is a dreamlike work, a precious window into the most hidden desires and conflicts.
Three is the recurring number: three are the characters and the third is the dimension of Tartini's sound, almost imperceptible but the result of a perfect harmony: the interference effect between two sounds which, if perfectly in tune, generate a third barely perceptible one. Two fragments can give life to a whole, a third dimension.
Jaša is the conductor of this piece that comes to life and intertwines with the figures of his father and the famous violinist. And in doing so, he traces a circle, a set of parallel narratives that seemingly never met. He gives us a new score, a script rewritten according to an eternal movement.«
Laura Rositani, curator
Colophon:
Author: JAŠA
Curator: Laura Rositani
Co-writer of the script: Etan Nechin
Puppet design with Meta Grgurevič
Puppet makers: Lutkovno gledališče Ljubljana – Zoran Srdić, Žiga Lebar, Olga Milič, Sandra Birjukov, Marjeta Valjavec, David Klemenčič, Lorena Bukovec, Gabrijela Fleischman
Original score: KALU
Puppeteers: Lovro Finžgar, Polona Kores, Martina Maurič Lazar
Live music: KALU, Bowrain
Performance: Mattias Gingliano, Al tempo di Tartini, Bela Mrevlje and others
Producer: Piran Self-Governing Community of Italian Nationals and Piran Coastal Galleries
Coproducer: Ljubljana Puppet Theatre
Technical production and PR: Glasilka
Production: WE.ARE Inštitut
Partners: Italian Community »Giuseppe Tartini«, Tartini house
Graphic design: Rosa Lux
Sound design: Mario Babojelič
Technical team of Ljubljana Puppet theatre: Damir Radončić (sound), Danilo Korelec, Kristjan Vidner (light), Darko Nedeljković, Slobodan Ilić (scenography)
Proofreading: Noah Charney
Support: Bojana Leskovar, Vuk Ćosić