ART IN A WEEK FACULTY OF ARTS/APRIL 2013 Welcome DEAR ARTISTS, this is a brief introduction to the program, which will be organized during your visit to Ljubljana in April 2013. We gathered descriptions of places you will be visiting, and the information on the curators that will be guiding us through a wide variety of different galleries. A map comes in handy, so we added that as well. We hope you enjoy your visit. Friday April 4 Saturday April 5 Sincerely MUSEUM OF MODERN ART AKSIOMA GALLERY 10.00 am – 11.3o am 11.00 am – 11.45 am INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF GALLERY CHAPEL GRAPHIC ARTS 12.15 am – 1.00 pm 11.45 am – 1.15 pm lunch break lunch break P. NEMEC GALLERY CITY ART GALLERY 2.30 pm – 3.00 pm 2.30 pm – 4.00 pm MATCH GALLERY MUSEUM OF 3.30 pm – 4.00 pm CONTEMPORARY ART 4.15 pm – 6.00 pm ALKATRAZ GALLERY 4.15 pm – Publication designed by Adrijana Petrič TINA KRALJ TIM MAVRIČ ADRIJANA PETRIČ British inter-media artist Anthony Hall My favourite exhibition was the one of Miroslav Can’t wait to see the Retrospective brought about what most of us thought was Cukovic at the MGLC, he uses the technique of exhibition in Modern gallery once again - this possible only in dreams - communication with collage in quite an interesting way: he takes time with our guests and the guidence of emptiness and makes something out of it. a fish. (In the Gallery Kapelica.) curator Marko Jenko. Museum of Modern Art, MG by Eva Malalan Beside the exhibitions MG also student established specialized library, • • • Documentation Department and ABOUT THE MG Information Centre that have The Museum of Modern Art/ become an important resource of Moderna galerija (MG) in Ljubljana information about Slovene modern is Slovene national museum of and contemporary art. To approach modern and contemporary art. In the visitors MG has started to 2011 the contemporary art perform guided tours, screenings, collection was moved to dislocated workshops and lectures. For unit, which is now known as children Minimalists' Club (Klub Museum of Contemporary Art minimalistov) has been established. Metelkova/Muzej sodobne umetnosti Metelkova (MSUM). Although the CURRENT EXHIBITIONS collection was divided, the MG: 20th Century/Continuities and institution remained one, so-called ruptures. Permanent display which The retrospective is the most MG+MSUM. breaks with traditional linearity by extensive exhibition of this artist's introducing the main issues of 20th oeuvre by now. It follows the artistic century Slovene art development of Slovene painter Curator: Marko Jenko, Ph.D. Marko Šuštaršič through four clear (member of curatorial team) stages that are chronologically displayed in five exhibition rooms, The exhibition begins with the entry starting with Šuštaršič's student of modernism into Slovenian art years and following through to his (around 1900) and ends with the untimely death, that is, from the late ten-day war for Slovenian 1940s to 1976. independence (1991). Main novelties are: avant-garde of the 1920s and ABOUT THE CURATOR MG today has two functions. It the second reconstruction of the Marko Jenko, Ph.D., Curator at MG. houses a display of national Trieste Constructivist Space (1927), collection of modern art produced the art of the Partisan resistance, between 1900 and 1991 and it shows photography. Beside the temporary exhibitions of key chronological path the exhibition is Slovenian and foreign artists. The offering also the alternative path main responsibility of this museum which is highlighting the issue of the is above all maintenance and close entanglement of art, politics constant development of national and life. collection of 20th century Slovene art. Born in 1980. He has a degree in Art history and French. His field of MG was founded in 1948 on the interest is art history, art and initiative of Slovenian art historian, psychoanalysis, philosophy. He is a critic, writer and diplomat Izidor member of the curatorial team Cankar (1886–1958). The building specialized for 20th century art at was designed by an architect MG. Edvard Ravnikar (1907–1993) according to the needs and functions of an art museum. Over the past 65 years the MG has MG prepared exhibitions, many of which Marko Šuštaršič (1927–1976): Tomšičeva 14 have been pivotal in the A Retrospective 1000 Ljubljana development of Slovene art. 6th February–1st September 2013 www.mg-lj.si Curator: Marko Jenko, Ph.D. International Centre of Graphic Arts, MGLC by Tim Mavrič & Nataša Kejžar The works from the collection are At his exhibition of this year he students available to view in the study room presents the problem of the in- • • • and the museum offers a free access between space in graphics, which is ABOUT THE MGLC to the library. The MGLC also owns how he calls the empty spaces The MGLC is a museum specialised print studios that are arranged as a between lines. This empty spaces are for graphic art. production centre and therefore also spaces of transition and available to artists. It also organises transformation, and as a workshops of various graphic consequence they also contain the techniques. Besides that it includes potential for the development of the also a residance where a host artist individual and of society. Besides can live and produce graphic art. printmaking he also uses collage and ready-made art, which indicates a EXHIBITIONS diverse artistic practice. Cartography of in-between space It was established in 1986 and it is Miroslav Cukovic (1982) is a young Cut-ups, Cut-ins, Cut-outs, The Art positioned in the oldest building in American artist of Yugoslavian of William S. Burroughs: the Tivoli Park, the Tivoli Castle. The origin. William S. Burroughs (1914–1997) is MGLC is based on the print considered one of the major production of the 20th century and American writers of the 20th on the heritage of the Biennial of century, being part of the important Graphic arts. The Biennial has a Beat Generation movement long tradition reaching back to alongside Jack Kerouac and Alle 1955; it is the most important Ginsberg. Besides being a writer activity of the MGLC and the and performer, he was also a visual world’s oldest graphic event. Since artist. the beginnings it has been exhibiting He studied at College for Creative international art production, Studies in Detroit, while he including many artists from the currently lives and works in developing countries. The centre the Maribor. He is active in Slovenia follows contemporary graphic and in the USA, where he regularly production, it has broadend it's has exhibitions. In Slovenia he is concept to include all the visual art known for his projects in Maribor that is reproductible. It also seeks to Orange movement (2009) and collaborate with outside critics and Maribor Milky Way (2012). curators. The MGLC keeps a wide collection of prints and about 4,000 books produced after the In the visual arts he is important for Second World War. The museum the development and use of the owns the only collection of method of the cut-up. The method modernist prints in Slovenia, originally consisted of cutting containing more than 10,000 newspaper pieces and then pieces which includes numerous assembling totally new texts and donations of the artists who have images out of the cut out pieces. participated at the Biennials, Burroughs later developed the works from the members of the technique in many different media École de Paris (such as Zadkine and applied it in many different and Picasso), some works of ways. The most common are his representatives of the COBRA collages that combine cut outs, avant-garde movement, artists of In 2012 his works were also written text and printmaking, Slovenia and of Eastern Europe and presented at the exhibition Prints besides that he also made sequences others (Robert Rauschenberg, Victor and Impressions at the MLGC, and of pictures, photomontages and Vasarely, Emilio Vedova, Maria raised positive response from the abstract paintings with shotgun Bonomi, ecc.). public. holes. International Centre of Graphic Arts The exhibition presents documents of his life and his artworks in which the influential cut-up technique is GALLERIES clearly visible. The exhibition is made in collaboration with the Vienna Kunsthalle. & ABOUT THE CURATOR MUSEUMS Božidar Zrinski (1974) studied art history at the Faculty of Arts of Ljubljana. He is a founding there are more than memeber of the Chair for Contemporary Art (Katedra za sodobno umetnost – KSU). He was active as a critic and has written art reviews for Radio Marš, the Tribuna student Buy prints newsapaper and for the newspapers Zofa 20 and Večer. He has partecipated in the Lojze Logar preparations for the Klub Mladih/The in Ljubljana and over Fragment Youth Club exhibitions that were held at the Cankarjev dom cultural centre. In 2000–2001 he has been a coordinator of the Manifesta, the international biennial of modern art that was held in Ljubljana. He 73 was also head of the art section of the MKZ in Slovenia. Hoče society and art director of the MKZ Hoče exhibition programme. Since 2001 he also works as a curator at the International centre of graphic arts – MGLC. MGLC Pod turnom 3 1000 Ljubljana www.mglc-lj.si City Art Gallery of Ljubljana by Nataša Kejžar therefore under direction of Blaž student Peršin. Both mentioned galleries • • • are under artistic direction of ABOUT THE CITY ART GALLERY Alenka Gregorič. The emphasis of The gallery is a successor of the City Art Gallery's exhibitions Jakopičev paviljon, the first has been on a well-balanced Ljubljana gallery which stood in relationship between exhibitions Tivoli Park and was demolished in dealing with domestic and 1962.