PREŠEREN DAY 2024: SLOVENIAN CULTURAL HOLIDAY |
Thursday, February the 8th, 2024
ALEŠ SEDMAK: RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION
Presentation of the monograph: Piran Civic Gallery, 8 February 2024 at 11 a.m
The monograph covers all periods of the artist's creative work developed throughout almost 50 years of activity.
Sedmak's versatile personality and works will be presented from different perspectives by: OGP Director Mara Ambrožič Verderber; sculptor, manager in the field of fine visual art and politics, mayor of Trbovlje Zoran Poznič; OGP Curator and editor of the monograph Nives Marvin; art historian, fine art critic and curator of the Carinthian Gallery of Fine Arts Marko Košan; publicist Tea Štoka and Tomaž Wraber, Former President of the Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired of Slovenia.
The monograph, conceived by Aleš Sedmak, was brought to its final visual appearance by the designer Duška Đukić. The realization of the publication has been possible thanks to the many collaborators and supporters: the Kaverljag Society, the ZDSLU Ljubljana, the Municipality of Koper and the Koper Rotary Club. We will liven up the event with music from String Quartet (Society of Friends of Music).
NEŽKA ZAMAR: (UN)TRUSTED SOURCE, A SERIES OF INVISIBLE PRACTICES |
Exhibition opening: Loža Gallery Koper, 8 February 2024 at 6 pm
Curators of the exhibition: Nives Marvin in Ana Papež
The author works at the intersection of visual-performative contemporary art practices, which define her work as fundamentally conceptual. Nežka Zamar's project (Un)trusted Source, A Series of Invisible Practices, will be presented at the Loza Gallery in Koper for the first time. The project is winner of the Open Doors public call announced by the Piran Coastal Galleries a year ago. Each chapter of this interdisciplinary time-based project begins with on-site research and ends with documentary recording of the result, with the main focus on the artistic process. The whole of chapters addresses the overarching multifaceted concept of representation and the attitude that perception has towards it. The artwork draws on representation as a concept in art theory in order to address it in the context of society – in an interspace where concept and medium become interchangeable within the framework of a transdisciplinary approach. The performance in the project serves as a structural intersection; It is inextricably linked to research and documentation, starting point and outcome, abandoning the role of protagonist and developing behind the scenes. (Un)trusted Source, A Series of Invisible Practices communicates with the audience by concluding the presentation of independent spatial installations. It challenges visitors to question the importance we give to events, based on how they were portrayed and who portrayed them.
More information on the exhibition at the link …
