Leftovers / Ostanki
Škrlovec Tower Gallery
28. 6.–13. 8. 2019
Exhibition of artworks, selected by an open call
Ana Vodušek (SI), Andrej Mivšek (SI), Andrej Tomić (HR), Andreja Gregorič (SI), Anita Kos (HR), Anja Kranjc (SI), Anka Krašna (SI), Anna Husemann (DE), Anna Klos (PL), Anna Sandalaki (GR), Babette de la Vega (FR), Barbara Demšar (SI), Bill Noir (FR), Brut Carniollus (SI), Carlo Pietrasanta (IT), Clive Knights (GB), Cory Peeke (US), Diego Naguel (AR), Erika Bournet Delbosc (FR), Jerome Bertrand (CA), Karina Walter (BR), Karla Čurčinski (HR), Lorena Malo (MX), Lula Valleta (NL), Lo Sύper (ES), mamaF (SI), Maria Elisa Quiaro (VE), Marija Prelog (SI), Marina Ćorić (HR), Marta Kopyt (PL), Martin Došek (CZ), Michel Landel (US), Milica Lilić (RS), Monika Ostrowska (PL), Nancy Dominique (BE), Nicole Rendic (PE), Nikolina Šimunović (HR), Nina de Vroome (NL), Nina Fraser (GB), Rajat Sharma (IN), Roberta Guarna (IT), Rosie Schinners (CA), Sandra Haselsteiner (DE), Sanja Pribić (HR), Saynt Molly (GR), Silvia Wladimirski Barenboim (AR), Simone Karl (DE), SLip (FR), Špela Fridau (SI)
The three people who made a selection of the contributions to the international call to the theme Ostanki/Leftovers found the works convincing that were sent by 49 artists from all over the world, among them ten from Slovenia. Although there is a unified theme, the main thread of the exhibition is variety in the sense the visual aspect and the content, as well as in the approaches and materials used. The contributions by the artists show that the collage technique is still prevailingly “made in paper,” that is two-dimensional, but that its possibilities are nearly limitless and its dimension is multigenerational. This year’s chosen topic couldn’t be a more personified essence of the collage technique, since it finds its inspiration exactly in the leftovers and fragments of a variety of materials with the purpose of making them live again through transformation.
Some works were created just for the occasion of this call, so that many of pieces found their new place after it had not really been clear why they were kept and were lying around waiting to be reborn. In their content, the exhibited collages are like a mosaic of personal or collective memories, emotions, humour, historical information and social reality, as well as a criticism of that reality, or they are plainly surrealistic creations and a blending of the real with the infinity of imagination. The character of the works in the exhibition is above all dominated by the variety of personal styles of their creators ranging from purified, elegant, black and white, even minimalistic forms all the way to extremely colourful, striking, saturated and lush forms… Most of the selected works have a well thought-out composition of a collage assemblage made from cut-outs from newspapers, magazines and old pictures to which in many cases a contemporary touch was added.
Petra Čeh