Exhibition - Project Art & Nature Without Frontieres - III

2013-09-14 // 11:30 - 13:30
 
 
 
 

Because art and nature are as well real and virtual as international spaces for thought and communication the project is based on the sustainable influence of art to  develope a collective empathic understanding for the natural environment. A kunstGarten-project between neighbouring countries with following participants: Secondary school pupils at art schools and art students; art teachers at art schools; artists.
After the exhibitions ART & NATURE I in Maribor (University of Maribor/Faculty of Education) und ART & NATURE II Graz (HTBLVA Ortweinschule Kunst und Design Graz) in June 2013, kunstGarten now presents the final exhibition. This project could be realized mainly with the support of Land Steiermark Grenz-Frei. The concept preparations started in 2012, the work with the pupils and students began in January 2013.
Opening speech: town councillor Lisa Rücker.
Involved persons:
Slovenjia (Maribor/Ljubljana): ALEN OŽBOLTOTO RIMELE Students of the University of Maribor/Faculty of Education: - PRO-AN 1 Samo Zelko , PRO-AN 2 Maja Petek (Mentor: Prof. Oto Rimele), PRO-AN 2a Barbara Seme (Mentor: Prof. Oto Rimele), PRO-AN 3 Nika Lopret, Danica Rženičnik, Tina Zidanšek, Urška Skaza, Maja Petek, Ivana Ivanovska, Petra Vdovč, Sabina Hvastja, Samo Zelko (Mentor: Ass.-Prof. Dušan Zidar)

Austria (Graz): JÜRGEN RAJH, AGNES CHRISTINE KATSCHNER - Pupils of 3YHKUO/P class HTBLVA Ortweinschule Kunst und Design Graz Vanessa Hermann, Johanna Krenn, Livia Lerchner, Lina Lin, Anna Petritsch, Katharina Schmeissl, Evelyn Waldhauser, Lukas Hofer etc. (Mentors: Mag.a Agnes Christine Katschner, Dipl.Päd.in Melitta Ritzinger) 

Concept an organization: Irmi Horn (supported by Reinfrid Horn)
The art teachers / artists and the other artists and Irmi Horn together with the pupils and the students created impressive works. The artistic credo of these works should give an impuls for an empathic thinking to the next school and university generations and the visitors of kunstGarten to influence the understanding for the natural environment in a sustainable manner.
The intention of this project is not only to give aesthetic and ethic insights into young contemporary art and to show the important educational work of engaged teachers and the emotional enthralling works of artists. It should be also a contribution to let inventiveness grow, sharpened by sensitive perception and to intensify the neighbourly communication with the sister town Maribor!

Works of the artists:

Jürgen Rajh FORM FOLLOWS USER

The title is borrowed from Victor Papanek, a designer and design theorist who placed  users at the centre of his deliberations, with all their social, cultural and economic needs. Through the practical handling and use of a product, users were to find the key to their own existence in the real world .

"Form follows user" may also denote the creative act of producing an object, where the user and the designer are identical (as was the case in most of the history of humankind). At the other end of the scale, the title may refer to the (supposedly) creative act of consumption, of using up, destroying and throwing away - the only role that remains for users that have graduated to being mere consumers. In that last-mentioned meaning, two situations each are being contrasted:

Situations located in Slovenia and in Austria

Situations past and present                                             

Situations that are individual and public

Agnes Christine Katschner

 * 1973 Graz, Studies / Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Wien / Universität Leeds, Großbritannien.

- many travelling abroad to study, expositions in Austria and Italy.

- since  2005 teaching  Art Theory - and Praxis,  Ortweinschule Graz

WASTE MANAGEMENT Slide Show 

THE ORDER OF THINGS: seven tableaux. Indian ink on paper / wood

In the first series of pictures, the circular order resembles medieval representations of the world: in those times, people´s conception of the world was determined by religion, but above all by cultural factors, i. e. myths. The world view today may be the result of more progressive scientific insights: however, it remains a visualized concept of the mind that is deeply influenced by myths. How else can our largely destructive dealings with the resources of our planet be explained, in the so-called civilized countries? The concentric circles of the first picture are de-centred in the second: this shift, this loss of balance is due to the striving for profit, power and recognition.

The second series of images represents animals and mythical creatures (tigers, dragons) as isolated surfaces of cultural projections.

The third series of images is about the order of things in their detail and with an eye to their structures: raindrops, leaves, serpent skin. These are systems determined by a certain rhythm: systems that require careful attention, so that balance, or disharmony, can be perceived.

Oto Rimele (SLO)- Born 26th September 1962, 1990 Diplom Academy of Art, Ljubliana (Prof. Emeriku Bernard), Special studiesPainting, Graphic (Prof. Janez Bernik), since 1987 teaching Painting and Graphic on the University Maribor. France Prešeren Price. National and international exhibitions.

He presents DIPTYCH AND THE FLY - to connect heaven to earth. The upper picture is visible fo spectators, the under one with the fly - full of colour - is lightening the earth and the inhabitans under the glass cube.

Alen Ožbolt shows VIVISECTION (THE PORTRAIT OF A NATURE), 2013

Vivisection (from Latin vivus, meaning "alive", and sectio, meaning "cutting") is defined as surgery conducted for experimental purposes on a living organism, to view living internal structure.

The artist tudied at Fine Art Academies in Zagreb and Ljubljana and was visiting artist at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI).

In the years 1984-1995, performed within the artistic group Do You Painter Know Your Dues (VSSD). Has been working independently since 1996.

 

Realised numerous diversified art projects and exhibitions at home and abroad. Several catalogues and prints.

Received various art scholarships (Fulbright Scholarship at the Institute of International Education in New York, SCCA - Soros Center for Contemporary Art in Ljubljana, Art Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia) and participated in Artist in Residence programmes (StudioProgram ACC Gallery, Weimar; ArtsLink, CEC International Partners, New York; Studio New York, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia). In 2003, received the Prešeren Fund Award.

Published several authorial visual essays, brief articles and some longer theoretic discourses on art, art spaces and phenomena (art catalogues, magazines: Mladina, Rival, Eseji, Problemi, M ´Ars, Maska, Likovne besede, PlatformaScca, Delo Saturday Supplement).

 

In the years 1996-1997, prepared, selected and published a book of art statements, texts and visual texts entitled The Word of Painting (VSSD in Words) at Analecta Publishing Collection. In 2006, published the book of an artist entitled Love Is a Battlefield, together with Žiga Kariž and Primož Čučnik, at Šerpa Publishing Collection. In 2007, issued VSSD - 20 Years Before at Škuc Gallery, and in 2010 the book Ensembles - Three-Dimensional Rebuses / A Stone in the Sky at the Sculpture Association.

 

Lives in Ljubljana.

Exhibitions in Slovenia, UK, Germany, Austria, Croatia, Italy, Greece, Belgium etc.

 

 

Öffnet ein neues Fenster: Land Steiermark

back