The exhibition, which was co-produced by the Škuc Gallery and the Celeia Celje Institute - Celje Center for Contemporary Arts, will present works created by the artist over the past four years. The Center for Contemporary Arts Celje invites you to the Gallery of Contemporary...
The exhibition, which was co-produced by the Škuc Gallery and the Celeia Celje Institute - Celje Center for Contemporary Arts, will present works created by the artist over the past four years.
The Center for Contemporary Arts Celje invites you to the opening of the Dube Sambolec exhibition, Status Report no. 2 / Situation Report No. 2.
The preview of the exhibition, led by Duba Sambolec and exhibition curator Urška Jurman, will take place at 6 p.m. in the Contemporary Art Gallery of Celje, one hour before the official opening. The exhibition was created in a co-production between the Škuc Gallery and the Center for Contemporary Arts - Zavod Celeia Celje, and an exhibition is also being prepared at the HDLU and PM gallery in Zagreb. The curator of the exhibition is Urška Jurman.
Entry to the exhibition, which will be on view until April 26, 2012, is free. More about the artist's work: http://www.artreview.com/profile/DubaSambolec; http://artfem.tv/duba_sambolec/.
At the exhibition, Duba Sambolec presents herself with a larger selection of works she has created in the last four years. After the first edition of the exhibition in the Škuc Gallery, where only sculptures and a selection of drawings were exhibited, Status Report no. 2 in Celje also includes works in other media. Through sculptures, objects, drawings, digital prints, printed banners and object paintings, Duba Sambolec creates engaged, critical, (self-)reflexive and poetic reports about his own existence and the turbulent time and passive society in which he lives.
In the Contemporary Art Gallery of Celje, the author will exhibit the sculptural production of the last three years: Balkans on My Mind, Temporary, ½ Volume Hanging, Lug-gage and This & That/Unplugged, as well as a selection of drawings she created in 2010-11. The Ambient Entertainment Place, which Duba Sambolec will set up in the Celje Art Gallery, creates a space of illusory pleasure, as the object images included in the ambience, on the one hand, seduce the viewer, but at the same time, give him the possibility of slipping into ease. The apparent opposite, or reverse side, of the glittering sign Entertainment Place is also represented by the printed banners displayed in the Art Salon, which act as textual and visual labyrinths, built from keywords and free associations on the subject of conformity, resignation, social repression, control and exclusion.
On the one hand, the exhibited works speak of the need for a critical response to the current social, economic and political situation and of the artist's questioning of his own identity, which oscillates between different anchors (gender, cultural space, art, ...), on the other hand, the works testify to the interest , almost the physical need of the artist to explore various materials and their artistic and semantic language. Despite all this, the works of Dube Sambolec show a belief in the power and need for art that remains true to its own speech and does not fall into the simplistic servility of social utility.
Duba Sambolec (1949) graduated and in 1978 completed postgraduate studies in sculpture at the Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts. Between 1992-2007, she was a professor of art and head of the sculpture department at the Art Academy in Trondheim (Norway). Since 2008, she has been employed as a professor at the National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo, Norway. She presented herself at numerous solo exhibitions (in the Gallery of Contemporary Art in Celje, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb and the Mali Gallery in Ljubljana, all 1998; in the Modern Gallery in Ljubljana, 1988; the Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, 1983) and group exhibitions, among others in the Zacheta National Art Gallery in Warsaw (2010), the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna (2009/10), the Venice Aperto (1988) and the São Paulo Biennale (1985).
(Urša Jurman, curator)
More info:
Jani Pirnat, curator, 03 426 51 56, jani.pirnat@celje.si