Sculptor, visual artist, puppet designer employed at the Ljubljana Puppet Theater and publicist...
Sculptor, visual artist, puppet designer employed at the Ljubljana Puppet Theater and publicist in the field of contemporary art, Zoran Srdić Janežić, will present himself in the Alkatraz Gallery with an exhibition from his oeuvre Corpus Indeterminata (*Undefined body).
The entire exhibition project is divided into several parts and will be carried out in two stages. The first two works will be presented in the Alcatraz Gallery and the Gallery of the Institute of Sculpture; both exhibitions will open on the same day at different times.
At 7 p.m., the exhibition will begin with an opening performance in the Gallery of the Institute of Sculpture. The performance will include the artist taking off his felt shirt. This was created during a performance performed during his stay in the art studio of the Ministry of Culture in Berlin in June 2010, in which the author pulled out his hair with tweezers for 24 hours. The hairs were subsequently, during the felting process, glued to the material from which the shirt was made. At the exhibition, 21 gold-plated coins from the series will be presented at the same time Lost & found 2010; a sequel to the 2007 series of the same name, featuring found hair from urinals placed on coins under plexiglass.
At 9 p.m., in the unheated Alcatraz Gallery, the artist will present a sculpture of a cast of his body with a pig's head, made of lard and crackers. The exhibition questions the role of the artist as a creator, who desperately needs inspiration for his work, and counters this with a cast of a body made from a mold. With this, the author declares, among other things, that a work of art is not just a thoughtful and inspired creation of physical objects, but that the context and the critical engagement behind it are equally important.
The author places lard, a food useful in many ways, in a context that creates resistance in the observer. The hybrid of man and animal draws attention to the anthropocentrism of our society and foreshadows the second part of the exhibition, in which the artist will use his own fat to create a body with a pig's body and a human head made with the help of three-dimensional scans. These simple changes of roles or the uses of raw materials are so extensive and self-evident in everyday life that we don't even question them anymore, but here we see them in a completely different light, which is why we are forced to reevaluate their meaning and appearance.
