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INFRARED, 2010 Painting

Bostjan Jurecic Alluvio

Slovenia

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 126 W x 78.7 H x 0.8 D in

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»BLOOD WORK« PAINTINGS FROM 2010 »I have carried these images within me for ten years. I had to develop new technology to put them on canvas. I am talking about internal technology here, not technical gadgets that we are surrounded with today. These paintings are a kind of synthesis of everything I have done so far.« »The avantgardes of all kinds have totally demolished any and all traditions. Which is great, of course. In the process they themselves became a tradition, generic, predictable therefore ready for elimination. How does one tackle a tradition with properties such as flatness, obviousness even banality? That's easy: with new complexity, versatility and skill.« »The author's intent could be read as anything is possible, although nothing is certain. From this openness of discourse that stems from evasiveness of reality as such, the current state of affairs and general social atmosphere protrude, into which we are pushed with no real facilities to change anything.« Brane Kovič, Secretary General of AICA (International Federation of Art Critics). »Despite specific encoding, Jurečič's paintings appear as response to specific references, that author consciously or unconsciously absorbed and then spat out transformed through his own perception of life and world.« Miha Colner, Art Critic, Ljubljana. »…Boštjan Jurečič, a somewhat overlooked artist…« Miha Colner, Art Critic writing in newspaper »Dnevnik«, November 2010, in reference to group exhibition We want to Be Free Like Our Fathers Were at International Centre for Graphic Arts, Ljubljana.

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Multi-paneled Painting:

Acrylic on Canvas

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

126 W x 78.7 H x 0.8 D in

Number of Panels:

2

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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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