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Densifying
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City Art Gallery Ljubljana

Mestni trg 5
1000 Ljubljana


General information:
T +386 1 24 11 785
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School programs:
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Tuesday–Sunday: 11:00–19:00
Monday: Closed
1 January, 1 November, 25 December: Closed
24 and 31 December: 11:00–14:00

Free entry.



City Art Gallery Ljubljana is a dog-friendly gallery.

Group exhibition

Densifying

6. 2. 2018–25. 3. 2018

Artists presented at the exhibition: Polona Demšar, Aleksandra Saška Gruden, Zoran Srdić Janežič, Anže Jurkovšek, Spiro Mason, Mojca Smerdu, Jožef Vrščaj, Tomaž Zarifa. The exhibition is a continuation of the theoretical and exhibition research of contemporary Slovenian sculpture with a varied selection of artworks from some of the most prominent Slovenian academic sculptors.

The exploration of contemporary Slovenian sculptural creation is a journey into a material, design, thought and sensory system. It is embedded in relationships where we particular is viewed through the general or where we attach the individual creator and their poetics to the integrity of cultural activity or the artistic historical moment. Today, as well as every time and everywhere, various questions arise about the rationality and expedience of sculptural activities, linked to subjective systematic unity, but also the diversity within sculptures, which at least in art are fluctuating between reality and fiction, between being (perceiving) and feeling (representing). It is then that distinction occurs between the working sculptural matter and the reflecting sculptural structure, which in the finality of the layout represent a certain beauty caught in a systematic organization, linked to cognitive and receptive ability, both of which are associated with pleasure and occasional discomfort and together form aesthetic cognition or energy (subsequent or diverse) of beauty. 

This current sculptural exhibition "Densifying "is an intimate experience, as we live within the world of metaphors, concepts and relations, some exclusively general, others subjective. In the world of multiplicity of individuals, sculptures represent a multitude of patterns, archetypes, symbols  and ideas that are not bound by religious, ideological or metaphysical systems, but are free materialized forces, types of authorial realizations and perceptions, some kind of mirrors of the ideas themselves. Densifying is part of the matter, and at the same time, part of an idea that the sculptures with author-guided systems are realizing and conceiving as a problem system and at the same time aesthetic pleasure. The idea and presentation of the exhibition "Densifying" derives from the concept of relations between matter, which constitutes sculptures in their interior, and the spatial density of the artefacts into visual narrative. In order to present the greatest possible diversity, the exhibition takes into account three selective criteria. The first one is material diversification, the second generational variety and the third most extensive understanding of sculpture. The exhibition space in the City Art Gallery Ljubljana is somewhat specific, as it consists of rooms that follow in the longitudinal line on both floors, whereby the viewer is forced to walk through each space twice, one way to the very end and then back again. In this visual journey (densifying of the view), one will, perhaps even unintentionally, see the individual work or all the works of authors from different perspectives.

Densifying

Exhibition "Densifying "is an intimate experience, as we live within the world of metaphors, concepts and relations, some exclusively general, others subjective. In the world of multiplicity of individuals, sculptures ...

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Production: Museum and Galleries of LjubljanaExhibition curator: dr. Sarival SosičArtists: Polona Demšar, Aleksandra Saška Gruden, Zoran Srdić Janežič, Anže Jurkovšek, Spiro Mason, Mojca Smerdu, Jožef Vrščaj, Tomaž ZarifaText: dr. Sarival SosičDesign: Ajdin BašićInstallation photos: Andrej Peunik / MGMLRealisation of the exhibitionTechnical services of MGMLThe exhibition was made possible by: City of Ljubljana, Department for Culture

City Art Gallery Ljubljana

Mestni trg 5
1000 Ljubljana


General information:
T +386 1 24 11 785
E mestna.galerija@mgml.si

School programs:
T +386 1 24 12 506
E prijava@mgml.si

Public relations:
T +386 41 669 599
E mateja.dimnik@mgml.si


Tuesday–Sunday: 11:00–19:00
Monday: Closed
1 January, 1 November, 25 December: Closed
24 and 31 December: 11:00–14:00

Free entry.



City Art Gallery Ljubljana is a dog-friendly gallery.

News

“Densifying simultaneously belongs to matter and the idea”

“Stratification of views, matter densified within sculptural forms, or time densified and compressed in geological rock layers that, after hundreds of millions of years, glisten through the polish of a modernist sculpture.”

3. March 2018
City Art Gallery Ljubljana
“Human evaporation, zombie construction”

“Following the group show "Waves in Sculpture" from 2016, the City Art Gallery of Ljubljana continues with the exhibition and theoretical research of contemporary Slovenian sculpture with "Densifying’”

10. February 2018
City Art Gallery Ljubljana

Events

Last guided tour of the "Densifying" exhibition
Thu
22
Mar 2018
Guided tour
5 p.m.
City Art Gallery Ljubljana
Last guided tour of the "Densifying" exhibition
You are cordially invited to join us for a last public guided tour of the exhibition "Densifying". The exhibition is a continuation of the theoretical and exhibition research of contemporary Slovenian sculpture with a varied selection of artworks from some of the most prominent Slovenian academic sculptors.
Guided tour of the "Densifying" exhibition with Zoran Srdić Janežič
Tue
6
Mar 2018
Guided tour
5 p.m.
City Art Gallery Ljubljana
Guided tour of the "Densifying" exhibition with Zoran Srdić Janežič
You are cordially invited to join us at a public guided tour of the exhibition "Densifying" with curator Sarival Sosič and sculptor, puppeteer and multimedia artist Zoran Srdić Janežič.
Guided tour of the "Densifying" exhibition with Tomaž Zarifa
Tue
20
Feb 2018
Guided tour
5 p.m.
City Art Gallery Ljubljana
Guided tour of the "Densifying" exhibition with Tomaž Zarifa
You are cordially invited to join us at a public guided tour of the exhibition "Densifying" with curator Sarival Sosič and sculptor Tomaž Zarifa, who graduated from Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts. Besides wood, his favourite sculpting mediums are also stone and iron.
Guided tour of the "Densifying" exhibition with Dušan Zidar
Thu
15
Feb 2018
Guided tour
5 p.m.
City Art Gallery Ljubljana
Guided tour of the "Densifying" exhibition with Dušan Zidar
You are cordially invited to join us at the guided tour of the exhibition "Densifying" with curator Sarival Sosič and conceptual artist Dušan Zidar, who works under the pseudonym Spiro Mason, whose work strives to present the existence of multiple simultaneous "realities" around the world.

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