Bostjan Jurecic Alluvio

We have all heard the saying that something is as boring as "watching the paint dry."

Well, I literally do that - I watch the paint dry. Watching the paint dry is the core of my painting technique.

I am painter, art theorist, journalist born at 9:55 AM, January the 17th, 1969 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

This is all of my art production so far displayed in semi-chronological order. I try to maintain strict quality control so I have destroyed and still destroy more then I preserve. There are several video clips about my work available on my YouTube channel. There are articles on Academia Edu website.

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 ...

- Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, graduated 1991.
- Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Ljubljana, graduated 1998.

I've only had a few exhibitions at relevant institutions so far so I will only list these:
- Solo show at Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana in 2003. Equrna has cult status in Slovenia.
- Twice at Affordable Art Fair in London in 2008 and 2009.
- Group show at MGLC in Ljubljana in 2010, showing with the most relevant Slovenian contemporary painters. MGLC is a respected institution that organizes The Bienalle of Graphic Arts, the first and the most respected of its kind in the world.
- Two solo shows at Visconti Fine Art gallery in Ljubljana in 2010 and 2011. They are a very respectable private gallery.
- Solo show at Bezigrad Gallery in Ljubljana in 2012, which is also a very respectable place.
- I took part at 2014 group show at Villa Manin, Italy which showed the best of Slovenian art in the last 50 years.
- Solo show at Coastal Galleries, Monfort venue in 2014. This is my first museum solo show in one of the largest single space galleries in Slovenia.
- Group show at Kunstlerhaus, Vienna and Gliptoteka, Zagreb in 2015 showing the best of Slovenian art in the last 50 years.
- In 2017 solo show at the Gallery of Painters' Society of Slovenia, curated by Miha Colner.
- In 2018 I had a solo presentation at Discovery Art Fair, Frank...