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Slovenia
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Addressing the Freedom of the Other. As I paint my latest paintings and watercolors, I am in the role of a carrier, descending into the world of media images; some of these are with me and have become imprinted in my memory. Through painting them one by one, I slowly merge them with a similar experience of my own. and thus ground them, while at the same time (as a way out of the eternal trapped in a perpetual state of malapropism) I add a kind of exit for anyone who wants to see it... The images are painted with a double story - they can be read in two ways: as a snapshot of a tragic, difficult or horrific experience, or if you change the perception just to just a little bit, you can see in them something quite the opposite, a happy event, ecstasy... The viewer interacts with the installation interactively, but not in a in a technological sense, but in a contextual and iconographic sense. The images of the figures are painted delicately, with minimal application of paint and in the smallest possible strokes, so that already for basic reading, they require the viewer to delve a little deeper and empathy. When this happens, the viewer is on the way to a reverse way of reading images as imposed by the media... not not just to see the image, but to see what it is ommunicating to us, and by what it conjures up. Dazed by too many images, we are lulled to sleep. we find it difficult to respond to them, whatever the degree of reality or the content they convey. Media apathy - numbness is a bane, as images work on people in passing. consciousness, but at the same time, they are very effective in changing our behavior, perceptions, and attitudes. Žiga Okorn, 2007
Original Created:2007
Subjects:People
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:6 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:11.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
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Slovenia
For one and a half decades I have devotedly pursued the quest for an image that would invite, reconcile or heal by touching our profound artistic experience, which is associated with empathy, sensation as well as compassion and love. These fragile, simple images, which the painter with earthly pigments and some drops of water literally pours over the paper or canvas, open up perspectives that we actually experience internally, but fail to realise sufficiently externally. They are the invocations of our sensitive yet forceful conditions, where mind and body, reason and hand, the head and the heart are interconnected. The watercolours of children, in front of which the viewer stands as if confronting his own future, are fashioned so elementarily that it is hard to overlook them. To overlook and not let oneself be touched by them, let them touch the place in us where still a tiny child resides, a child who is waiting for us to view the world through its wide-open eyes. What it is watching and feeling is here and now, is omnipresent and eternal. The “here-present” is unfathomable already through language, unreachable neither through imagining not projecting, it is a creative process and a part of ourselves. The artistic basis of an image, which shows proclivity towards both Western and Eastern art, addresses us in a language that – since it has faith in the skill and is acquainted with tradition – makes space for imagination and the viewer’s inventiveness. How can water that spills, dries and leaves a trace of colour on paper create a landscape, or at least a faithful image of it? What is the secret behind a flash of light piercing through dark storm clouds and reflecting the world, despite the absorbency of paper, so that we suddenly get a glimpse of the almost forgotten dance of earth and sky. Aren’t we so enchanted by this blend of colours and the vividness of the images, not because they are evoked by the magic wand of an illusionist, but by the tip of a brush and the real experience of a painter, because we realise that they are not an illusion, but a vision.... Janko Rožič
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