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Robert Černelč: Interspaces

Academic painter and director Robert Černelč successfully, particularly analytically systematically, combines the mediums of painting, video art, and film-making in his artistic work. He expands his activities into the fields of video art, set design, and screenwriting.

Robert Černelč is a multimedia visual artist, drawn to movinig images that evoke the issues of contemporary reception. His works from the last few years are thus derived from the deconstruction of film. He is exploring the idea of how to reconstruct a specific cinematic moment in a painting within the suspense of anticipation that originates on the outside, a space that is not depicted in the image but implicitly present. Siegfried Kracauer noted that films know something we do not, and that there is something hidden within them that can be discovered. This perspective gives rise to the relationship between viewers and the depicted, characterised by its instability and unpredictability, which is what captivates the artist the most. Robert's recent paintings feature motifs of waiting, observing, being, and gazing—a state of halted and redirected attention that is fragmented across multiple "screens" in our post-digital era. His interest lies not in pixelation but in delving into the digital intricacies of the image, where concreteness is presented as abstract information.


Exhibition: 29. 2.-5. 5. 2024
Published by: Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana / City Art Gallery Ljubljana
Represented by: Blaž Peršin
On behalf of City Art Gallery Ljubljana: Barbara Sterle Vurnik
Editor of catalogue: Sarival Sosič
Texts: Oskar Ban Brejc, dr. Nataša Smolič, Sarival Sosič
English translation: Veronika Fürst Ažman
Slovenian copy editor: Mirjam Furlan Lapanja
Photographs: Boj Nuvak, Jaka Žilavec, Robert Černelč, Blaž Gutman (Pictures at the exhibition, Opening views)
Documentation: Artist‘s arhive
Design and layout: Aleš Brce
Printed by: Fotolito Dolenc, Ljubljana
Print run: 200

March 2024
Price: 20 €
Number of pages: 160
ISBN 978-961-6969-58-1

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Robert Černelč: Interspaces

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