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:
- Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana in 2003.
- 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.
- Two solo shows at Visconti Fine Art gallery in Ljubljana in 2010 and 2011.
- Solo show at Bezigrad Gallery in Ljubljana in 2012.
- Group show at Villa Manin, Italy, 2014.
- Solo show at Coastal Galleries, Monfort venue in 2014.
- Group show at Kunstlerhaus, Vienna and Gliptoteka, Zagreb in 2015.
- Solo show at the Gallery of Painters' Society of Slovenia, 2017.
- Solo at Discovery Art Fair, Frankfurt, 2018.
- Solo at Europart Fair in Amsterdam, 2019.
- Part of a group show of Slovenian "Metamodernists" that was curated by Marko Kosan. Kosan's show travelled to public galleries in three Slovenian towns, Slovenj Gradec, Ptuj and Portorose, 2019.
- Solo show at Generali Gallery in Ljubljana, 2020.
- Solo show at Kibla Gallery in Maribor, 2021.
- 2022: Solo show at Visconti Fine Art Gallery, Ljubljana.
- 2023: Solo show at DLUL Gallery, Ljubljana. Part of group show at Art Revolution Taipei, Taiwan. Solo show at Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Discovery Art Fa...