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Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 37.8 W x 58.3 H x 0.8 D in
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A man, a woman and a cat. A scene from some Miloš Forman movie, I believe. PAINTINGS 2012 »…I ask myself often, what do I have with surgeons, gangsters or policemen that appear on my canvases. Maybe everything is false and fake. Let's change angle of viewing: let's say that these are very powerful images. The fact that they are so well executed must mean that I have some entanglement with all this…« From interview with Aleksander Bassin, former director of Ljubljana Municipal Gallery, published in a book about Slovenian artists »Artists and Studios«, 2012. »…The solo show at the Bežigrad Gallery looks exceptionally fluid and coherent. The viewer is easily pulled into looking for correlations between paintings and incited to find rational explanations behind the images…« Review of solo show at Bežigrad Gallery by art critic Miha Colner followed by interview. Published on radio Student end of September 2012. »…Boštjan Jurečič is one of the more visible Slovenian painters. This is party due to the sharpness of his concept and partly due to topics and themes of his work that reveal our society and thus offer specific critique of life…« Review of solo show at Bežigrad Gallery by art critic Vid Lenard. Published in daily newspaper »Dnevnik«, end of September 2012. »…I make an image with paint and wait a couple of minutes till some of it has dried. I then wash the image away with water, so that only patches of colour remain. I then repeat this procedure again and again until something gets formed out of these patches. The point of all this lies in the attempt to avoid illustrating. It is very easy to illustrate. One learns to illustrate in the first year of the fine art academy. It is difficult, on the other hand, to make things come together as if by an accident…« Interview with reporter Anamarija Štukelj on Radio Slovenia on the eve of the show at Bežigrad Gallery. »…I don't know why people go see art at museums. Maybe they think that by looking, they will grasp a small procentage of the state the artist was in when he painted this thing…« Interview with reporter Nina Zofič on Radio Slovenia, end of July 2011. »…The images of Boštjan Jurečič are the images from one's distant memories. These actually disappear before our very eyes – quite literally flowing out of the canvas. Simultaneously appearing and disappearing, the same way as everything is born and dies…« Text of Miloš Bašin, curator of the Bežigrad Gallery solo show, published in the catalog of the show.
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Painting:
Acrylic on Canvas
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One-of-a-kind Artwork
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37.8 W x 58.3 H x 0.8 D in
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Painter, art theorist, journalist born 1969 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. This is all of my art production so far displayed in no chronological order. I try to maintain strict quality control so I destroy more then I preserve. There are also several video clips about my work available on my YouTube channel. I was the worst student Ljubljana's Academy of Fine Arts could ever have. I barely passed the last year with the lowest grades. After finishing studies I wanted to drop art altogether. I got a job at the national TV of Slovenia where I still work as a journalist covering visual arts, architecture, comics, classical and contemporary music etc. After the millennium I started painting again. At first under strong influence of Basquiat, whose show I saw in Trieste at the end of the nineties. Actually it was Basquiat's show that pushed me back again into producing art. After 2003 I wanted to get rid of Basquiat's influence. So, one time I carried this one piece that had again been done in his style under water, while it was still wet. Water partially washed the image away. There was a silent scream in my head: "Look how the image dissolves." Washing the images away with water became my dominant painting technique. There were a couple of series of paintings made between 2004 and 2006 using this technique in a variety of ways. Between the beginning of 2007 and the beginning of 2010 there was a pause though. I was trying to expand on this idea and technique but wasn't successful. I realized later that I was trying too hard to show my invention as such. In early 2010 I came up with the necessary evolution. Since then, my work procedure can be described as follows: I make an image with paint. I then wait a couple of minutes till some of it has dried. I then wash the image away with water. Patches of paint remain, of course. I then repeat this procedure with another paint until something gets formed out of patches. Why is all of this important? This procedure of mine gets me beyond simple illustrating. It makes the onlooker feel as if the images got on the canvas all by themselves. At work with TV Slovenia I have been since 2012 engaged in writing a widely read and commented column on contemporary art. I am also active in the field of art theory. I developed an original theory of and on the parallels between visual art and music. Short articles about the theory are available on .
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