Anze Gallus Petelin

The painting of Anze Gallus Petelin:


Only a handful of young artists manage to produce an extensive, mature and comprehensive range of paintings. Anze Gallus Petelin is one such artist. His creations follow in the tradition of the College for visual arts, a college, that this talented painter and sculptor comes from. A college, that with this flood of various non-artistic visual practices, carefully cultivates painting, as a fundamental visual art.

His work is mature and bold and his artistic outlook is built mainly on knowledge and feeling of ever growing human loneliness in a world of superficial human relationships, a world where communication is transfered into virtual space- and yes, there, everything is possible and all is nice and well and everything turns out great. When this artificial quasi image is uncovered, we are left alone in a real space, ever so small in the vastness of the universe. These are the images that dominate Petelin's canvases. Their address is direct but by no means intrusive or definite, they open a field of universality and humanity and give us a possibility for introspection.

Assist. Prof. Mladen Jernejec, M.Sc.
Dean of College of visual arts

College for Visual Arts, Ljubljana

Notable group exhibitions:
2007 11th Slovenian Sculpture Exhibition / Slovenia
2007 Art exhibition in the building of European union / Slovenia
2007 Art Exhibition at the Gallery Celica- Ljubljana / Slovenia
2008 12th Slovenian Sculpture Exhibition / Slovenia
2012 16th Slovenian Sculpture Exhibition / Slovenia
2012 Culture center Podpeč, Podpeč / Slovenia
2013 Culture center Podpeč, Podpeč / Slovenia
2014 Gallery Spomeniškovarstvenega Centra, Ljubljana / Slovenia
2016 Vaški dom Lipovci, Lipovci / Slovenia
2017 Grad Beltinci, Beltinci / Slovenia
2017 Hiša umetnosti Kičevo, Kičevo / Macedonia
2017 Culture İnformation Cente - Skopje / Macedonia
2017 BTC City - Murska Sobota / Slovenia
2018 Culture centre "Ivan Mazov - Klime" / Macedonia
2018 Museum of Negotino city / Macedonia
2018 Finike / Turkey
2018 Antalya / Turkey
2019 Vaški dom Lipovci, Lipovci / Slovenia
2019 Castle Beltinci, Beltinci / Slovenia
2020 Gallery Medija - Zagorje, Slovenia
2022 Galerija Ruše - Ruše, Slovenija
2022 BTC / Ljubljana, Slovenia
2023 Kulturni dom Ruše / Ruše, Slovenia
2023 Univerza Lokman - Hakim / Ankara, Turkey
2024 Flori Gallery / Pristina, Kosovo
2024 Monfort Gallery / Portorož, Slovenia
2024 Mundum lnternational Painting Exhibition / Kathmandu,...