What is the position of the Shuffle exhibition in relation to the existing reality? Always a critical and insightful observer of reality, its everyday aspects, representations, and theoretical interpretations, Lenárdič has incorporated in his creative practice his awareness of the changes in perception and his reflections on the status of the (painterly) image, “socialized” in the broad range of visual culture. Viewing is an integral activity of the collective social fabric, with the specific gaze being conditioned by culture and predisposed to certain sensibilities.

In his practice, Lenárdič opposes the conventions of viewing. Underpinning everything he does is the intellectual emancipation of the artistic image and the question of how an artistic image can preserve its otherness amidst equalized images, or how it can introduce the playfulness of fiction into the dominance of reality and actively involve the viewer in the effect the fiction produces.

Acknowledging the viewer’s reality, the artist includes visual strategies familiar from everyday experience in his practice. His lucidly constructed installations follow the logic of peripheral incursion, combining and processing incompatible images that transform viewers into participants in their interplay, forcing them to constantly shift their attention from one element to another. The heterogeneity of Lenárdič’s art – between the media of painting, object, drawing, sound, and video – points to the characteristic mobility and flexibility which direct perception.

Zmago Lenárdič: Shuffle

What is the position of the Shuffle exhibition in relation to the existing reality? Always a critical and insightful observer of reality, its everyday aspects, representations, and theoretical interpretations, Lenárdič ...