Ida Blažičko (HR): Whiteness

With the work entitled “Whiteness”, space is permeated by the sculptural forms inspired by the poem of Chinese poet Wang Wei, which ambiently transform reality through the vital poetics inspired by natural processes. The Chinese poet and painter Wang Wei (699-759) was one of the greatest poets of the golden age of Chinese poetry, the T'ang dynasty. Wang Wei's art suggests the complex interaction between poetry and painting. Integrating fragile materials and biomorphic motifs in direct perceptual relationships with the observer „Whiteness” gives the impression of noble and dignified ephemerality expanding the title of the work with a reference to the poetic images of Wang Wei’s “Green Water Stream”. The sculptures with dimensions outside the human scale devised in the external public space of Kranj have been produced with textile. The site-specific artwork deals with aesthetic, conceptual, and ambiental relations of the sculptural forms, thus artistically formed space allows visitors to plunge into transformed space, as an invitation to contemplation and detachment from reality.

Green Water Stream

To reach the Yellow-Flowered River
Go by the Green-Water Stream.
A thousand twists and turns of mountain
But the way there can’t be many miles.

The sound of water falling over rocks
And deep colour among pines.
Gently green floating water-plants.
Bright the mirrored reeds and rushes.
I am a lover of true quietness. Watching the flow of clear water
I dream of sitting on the uncarved rock casting a line on the endless stream.

Wang Wei (699 – 761)