An exhibition in which the artist wonders what is the use when building a career as an artist and looking for strategies on the way to success. Jure Cvitan, an artist of the younger generation from Celje, presents himself with an exhibition entitled "Conqueror of the useless" in the Art Salon of Celje. "If in style...
An exhibition in which the artist asks what is the use when building a career as an artist and looking for strategies on the way to success.
Jure Cvitan, an artist from Celje of the younger generation, presents himself in the Art Salon of Celje with the exhibition entitled "Conqueror of the useless".
"If, in the style of street preachers, we blasphemously change Descartes' thought about the search for truth (Principles of Philosophy, 1644), we dare to write: "Whoever is truly a seeker of the truth about himself and his path must at least once in his life doubt himself, as deeply as possible and your doing.”
To whom and what does it benefit, the young Celje painter Jure Cvitan also thinks about the role of contemporary art and the position of his own creation in it. When he searches for ways of self-realization, he assumes the role of a conqueror of the useless, a conqueror for his own sake. Cvitan's doubt is not only self-reflection, but also a conflict with himself. The visitors find themselves in the bunker, in the middle of a crossfire of rage and coercion. On one side of the bunker, he portrayed himself as a worshiper of weapons and violence, ready for drastic actions, that of a "front range looser", who is ready to eliminate anyone in his path for his self-realization, and on the other side, he presents himself as a made-up companion of the artistic world, with with a forced cynical smile, slipped on the road to success. A bully shoots a bully. Jure Cvitan artistically leaned on first-person shooter computer games. Playing computer games can be exciting, and excitement is a feeling that the artist also seeks in the effect of painting. The pictures look like they have been bombarded by a paintball cannon with bullets of different fluorescent colors. The contrast to the abstract colors of the background are graphically flat images in the foreground, which together form a spatial backdrop. The canvases are additionally illuminated with UV light, which heightens the impression of color and creates additional 3D effects. In addition to Jure Cvitan, Mark Požlep and Jaša are also experimenting with luminous techniques in painting. All of them also use the strategy of aggressive exhibitionism and anti-aesthetic banalities and allow the viewer no choice but to confront them directly; and therein lies their opportunity. David Myers wrote for the Aesthetics of Play Conference (2005): ”Anti-aesthetics is the aesthetics of form itself. In short, just like a computer game, anti-aesthetics is bound to itself.” If we combine all three components of Juret Cvitana's creation, cloning himself, the use of first-person "shooting" and anti-aesthetic elements, this is the sum total of all the artists' egos, and in the second plan, the irony of their own position. He honestly reveals himself to us when he puts himself in the shooting gallery model of this "Shooting gallery game", which he transferred from the Internet game type to the actual Art Gallery gallery, where he shoots himself. It is a schizophrenic showdown of a freak who, like in the movie Fight Club (Fight Club, 1999), fights with himself. What can we expect from it? The dogs bark, we drink a glass of wine together and the caravan moves on. The ever-increasing insensitivity of those addressed in the face of the flood of "projects" demands ever more drastic action on the part of the one who addresses. The opening is on April 1 (8 p.m.), April Fools' Day. Do you dare?'
(Jani Pirnat, curator)
Free entry.
On view until May 8, 2011.
More info:
Jani Pirnat, curator, phone: 03 42 65 156, e-mail: jani.pirnat @celje.si
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