Potočnik, Uroš: Draught Series: Grid

Potočnik, Uroš: Draught Series: Grid

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Title Draught Series: Grid
Type Painting, Artist talk, Public interview, Guided tour, Realistic painting
Date 13 June 2014
Venue Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Language Slovene
Format 1920x1080 pxl
Duration 35' 45"
URL http://www.mg-lj.si/si/razstave/17/prepih-uros-potocnik-mreza/
Registration number MG-2014-RAZS-403

Synopsis

Potočnik's banal direct realism attempts to present something spectacular or overlooked for the viewer to re-evaluate it. The choice of motives is dictated by everyday life events and the environment, and the painter is not particular or demanding. At the exhibition from the painting series Grid, for example, he presented objects at a clothing store and some images of nature, which usually remain obscured and invisible for being ordinary and uninteresting. More than a choice of motive, Potočnikov's artistic method is characterised by exploring the painting matter and thinking about the technical and compositional components of painting production. In this way, the artist affirms realism as a painting genre in modernity despite its historical abuses. The representation of the real in ways that emphasise the contradictions of the expression and the various forms of its understanding play a key role in Potočnik's search for relations of life and work.

Sodelujejo

Curator Igor Španjol

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