Until March 5, 2017, a retrospective exhibition of Tone Lapajna: Memory of the Earth is on view in the Jakopič Gallery, which represents the pinnacle of Lapajne's oeuvre in various art genres. It is the artist's first overview exhibition and for the first time it is accompanied by a monograph in which all his phases and cycles are illuminated.
Tons of Lapajna he carried a story inside him all his life. It was an impermanent, constant and probably also very restless inner pulse with which the artist lived. His artistic oeuvre is inextricably linked with the story of his childhood. It contains memories of early years of life in Siberia, in Barje, found their resonance and embodiment. The opus of paintings is combined with the previous opus, s cycle of statues.
Although most remember him as a painter who instead with colors "painted with earth", Tone Lapajne was an academic sculptor who, with his sculptures in concrete, iron and especially wood created an essential part of his oeuvre. With him, he was and will be in the art historical memory in the future as well.
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(Photo: Matevž Paternoster/MGML)
Lapajnet's range extends from the early, engraver-marked works in miniatures to monumental public sculptures in Maribor and elsewhere, where his oeuvre turned in completely new directions. They have a special place in his oeuvre high-profile scenes and props for theatrical performances. The most famous chapter is probably still Lapajnet's painting opus, which is through the wooden reliefs and the layers applied to them black bog lands started in 1978. By bringing earth to the gallery - he strengthened it with binders, because he wanted his paintings to be indestructible, permanent, so that the memory could be preserved for longer - he wanted the disappearing landscape and the nature that is increasingly changing due to pollution, to give a permanent image. Not only as a guardian of the memory of the planet Earth, but also as an ambassador of nature, he took care of maintaining the awareness of man as nothing more than a fragment of nature.
(Photo: Matevž Paternoster/MGML)
As part of the exhibition, it will start in January a series of six art workshops for adults Earth: inspiration for artistic creation under the guidance of an academic painter Nuše Lapajne, which can be an original idea for a New Year's gift!
Gallery - Tone Lapajne, guardian of the memory of planet Earth
More information:
mgml.si, info@mgml.si, 01 24 12 506 (the gift voucher also includes the exhibition catalog)
