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Paths through Sculpture
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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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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

Paths through Sculpture

5. 4. 2012–17. 6. 2012

Artists presented at the exhibition: Dragica Čadež, Mirsad Begić, Matjaž Počivavšek, Rene Rusjan, Roman Makše, Mirko Bratuša, Metod Frlic, Darko Golija, Damijan Kracina, Boštjan Drinovec, and Marco Juratovec. This exhibition comprises selected works by a number of prominent Slovene sculptors of different generations.

The work presented is only a cross section of their sizeable output; this follows the concept of the exhibition, which focuses on the relationship between sculptor, form, space, journey, and communication. The forms are open, reflexive, and aesthetic; the exhibition consists of segments of contemporary Slovene sculpture. The chosen artists, Dragica Čadež, Mirsad Begić, Matjaž Počivavšek, Rene Rusjan, Roman Makše, Mirko Bratuša, Metod Frlic, Darko Golija, Damijan Kracina, Boštjan Drinovec, and Marco Juratovec, have their own recognizable, systematically constructed artistic poetics that make their sculpture a form, space, and journey. The sculpture is still based on firmness and fidelity to the chosen material, as well as on searching for a narrative, visual expressiveness, and the role of sculpture in today’s society. The exhibition is therefore dedicated to analysing the relationship between sculpture as form, space, journey, and communication; together, they enable the visual effect of sculpture within the exhibition space, offering the viewer the opportunity to set up a personal gaze on contemporary sculpture in Slovenia. In order to facilitate the reading of the structure of the exhibition, I shall endeavour to explain some views about form, space, journey and communication…
The present exhibition is varied in terms of the chosen artists and their work. It offers an emotional and formal approach to sculpture which, in spite of its variety, appears as a major work of art, with various degrees of comprehension, recognition, association, and imagination. In its internal composition, sculpture is a firm conglomeration of materials and their elementary order; the sculptural system adapts itself to the exhibition space. From the outside, the composition is a kind of relationship between the internal order and external disposition of the elements. The latter often attacks the firmness of matter, making it into a greater spatial composition, passing from one part of the sculpture to the other. The greater spatial composition is not only visual; it is actual, a physical journey, movement through, across, or alongside the sculpture. As we move through sculpture, the space becomes tactile and kinetic. It thus reaches beyond its coordinates and its own sense of measure. This is no longer mere matter; it rather becomes a spiritual space, filled with imagination, various levels of visualization. A space filled with works of art changes in character, becoming a pure space of sculpture as form and matter. Sculpture is an image – an action with a certain potentiality, linking the exhibition space with the possibility of communication with the spectator. It is the spectator that should be the one to enjoy such exhibitions. To quote Igor Stravinsky: “At the core of each art there is something more than the mere sum of its earthly components.” 

Paths Through Sculpture

The exhibition offers an emotional and formal approach to sculpture which, in spite of its variety, appears as a major work of art, with various degrees of comprehension, recognition, association, ...

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Production: Museum and Galleries of LjubljanaCurator: dr. Sarival SosičArtists: Dragica Čadež, Mirsad Begić, Matjaž Počivavšek, Rene Rusjan, Roman Makše, Mirko Bratuša, Metod Frlic, Darko Golija, Damijan Kracina, Boštjan Drinovec, Marco JuratovecText: dr. Sarival SosičGraphic design: Ajdin BašićInstallation photos: Matevž Paternoster / MGMLRealisation of the exhibition: Technical Service MGMLThe project 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.

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