About Teo Spiller
Sometimes I think and act and feel like a machine - and I make art the same way. Like Geppetto carved Pinocchio, I built myself a robot called Laboro. In the narrow, dark garage, between the fathers car and the working table, Laboro creates art for machines, while I use brushes and colors and paint, just like my shaman precestors did 40.000 years ago.
While Laboros motors weep and spindles groan in their Fordistic trance, my body liberates memories on tribal dances, powerful supersticious and deep connections to the Whole. Being day or night, in that narrow garage the whole Universe opens and adopts my humble hope to feel at least a grain of Its mighty infinity. The secret code of which Universe is built of, swings the path by which colors mark thiny little fragments of our swift reality. Seeing those forms, painted by my hands, compared to Laboros coded symbols, reminds me that I might be something else than just a rational machine.
It took me decades and many culde-sacs, from internet and media to device and contemporary art, to step into that path. Formal and unformal education, theory and phylosophy, solo and group exhibitions, festival and bienials, aritcles and news, they were all forces, waving the wates of my sailing. Like hammer and fire temper the steel, they pured my mind and soul, letting just what matters inside.
Natural sciences might explain the universe to it's last Neurino or String, Gene or Molecule and social sciences might develop as many theories as there are people on the Earth, but between all of those explanations there are always thiny little gaps, which prevents us from understanding the magic of the Whole. Please, just let art fill that gap like it did for last 40.000 years and allow yourself to enjoy the beauty of the revealed eternal mistery.
http://www.spiller.si
http://www.youtube.com/TeoSpiller
http://www.youtube.com/user/LaLaboro
http://finearteurope.com/profiles/teo-spiller.html
http://artist-career.blogspot.com/
http://cool-contemporary-artists.blogspot.com/
http://portrait-art-how-to.blogspot.com/
Exhibitions:
GROUP SHOWS
30th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2013
UNESCO day of poetry 2003, Technopoetry for peace, Milano, Italy
Net.art open, Irish museum of modern arts, Dublin, Ireland
"The masters of graphic arts", Municipal Museum of art, Gyor, Hungary
The works of art in the age of mechanical reproduction, Machida city museum of graphic arts, Tokyo, Japan
Communications from isolated environments", Venice Biennial 99 (with Gruppo Oreste), Venice, Italy
10 th Cairo International Biennale, Cairo, Egypt, 2006
Blasthaus gallery, San Francisco, USA, 2006/2007
Kiparstvo danes, Gallery of contemporary art, Celje, Slovenia, 2010
'95-05'", Museum of modern arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2005
"The eye and it's truth", Museum of modern arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Kontejner gallery, Zagreb, Croatia, 2006
Balkan black box, Berlin, 2007
Break 2.3 Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2005
The floor of my atelier, Galerija Gradec, Zagreb, Croatia, 2003
"Digital graphic arts on paper", Ljubljana Municipal Museum, Slovenia
The Rotten Machine aka the Tothless Old Thing 1999-2004, Badajoz - Spain, 5-28 February 2011
"Pixxelpoint 2002", Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Kosov@ benefit auction",New York City, USA
Omnizone, New York City, USA
"Zu casa", Del Mar, California, USA
Ostranenie 97, Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany
Film+arc graz, Graz, Austria
FILE 2001 electronic language international festival, Sao Paolo, Brasil
Casa das rosas web.art contest, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Altamira cave, Mexico City, Mexico
"Medi@Terra", Athens, Greece
"The Digital Labyrinth Theatre", Acco, Israel
"Korea web art festival 2002", Chiang Mai, South Korea
"runme.org", Macros Centre, Moscow, Russia
"Computer arts festival" '96, 97, '98, '99, Maribor, Slovenia
"ARCO - El Mundo net-art award", Barcelona, Spain
SOLO:
"LIFE", Merlin theatre, Budapest, Hungary, 2011
"Intruders", Kino Siska, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2012
"Wooden In/form/ations", Trubarjava hisa literature, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2011
"Psstt!!", KUD France Prešeren, Ljubljana, 2010
Presentation in Galerija Kapsula, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2010
Rael Artel Gallery, Parnu, Estonia, 2005
Hevreka!05, GR, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2005
Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Slovenija, 1996
Galerija Commmerce, Ljubljana, Slovenija, 1995
