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Galerija Skuc : I�TVAN I�T HUZJAN - FROM HERE TO HERE - 24 Jan 2013 to 22 Feb 2013 Current Exhibition |
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I�TVAN I�T HUZJAN
Skupaj/Samen 2012 |
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IŠTVAN IŠT HUZJAN FROM HERE TO HERE 24.1. – 22.2.2013 You are kindly invited to the opening of the exhibition on Thursday, 24th January 2013 at 20.00 at Škuc Gallery. The opening will be accompanied by a performance, starting at 9.30 pm. It seems that the art projects of Ištvan Išt Huzjan are a journey through his life and intimacy. The thin line separating life and art is almost completely blurred in his work, so they seem very sincere and direct. Huzjan reveals his intimacy via subtle minimalist actions, interventions and objects, and in this day and age, this seems more daring than ever before, directly relocating the violent priorities of the contemporary environment. It is almost a romantic gesture, seeking to bring attention to disappearing personal and social values in terms of emotional awareness. The relentless disclosure of personal stories and ‘slipping’ them into different social categories would not be possible without an in-depth reflection on their presentation. Personal stories become a means of examining different expressive media, which are carefully selected, revealing the artist’s need to explore them. Perhaps this is what makes Huzjan one of the younger generation of artists who creates works that are formally very original, sensual and haptic, while touching on the field of the ephemeral, which enables them to delve deeper, and also very ‘quietly’ additionally questions the mechanisms and representations of contemporary visual art. Huzjan’s specific artistic principles always dictate the concept and layout of From Here to Here in Škuc Gallery. Unlike the majority of his other independent projects (Revisiting the First m2, 2011; The De Bruin-Heijns, 2010; Simsalabim, 2010; No Means No, 2008; The Big Blue, 2007,…), which are more project based, the exhibition in Škuc Gallery is an overview of crucial elements of Huzjan's work. This exhibition combines art works from different periods, which provides a comprehensive overview of his art, effects and development. It seems that the exhibition echoes the key questions, which have followed the artist since the beginning of his career: ‘‘In what circumstances do our paths cross and where do my traces lead me?” The diverse and condensed traces of Ištvan Išt Huzjan are manifested through drawings, paintings, objects, books, interventions and a performance, which are not strictly ‘coded’, but leave the viewer a very wide field of associations. Individual works of art function independently, but there are connections made between them which reveal an uncoerced interdependence, complementing each other. The hybrid format of the works of subtle stories escape the obvious, creating infinite conceptual and visual combinations, almost riddles, which build the exhibition into a multi-layered elusive whole. Despite the fact that the exhibition seeks to provide a wider insight into Huzjan’s work, it is intended to avoid direct linear narration, as this would be completely contrary to the basic language of his art, which constantly crosses lines, traversing from one medium to the next, from story to story. While the exhibition From Here to Here is indeed a journey through several years of work, it does not take us from point A to point B, but via infinite horizontal and vertical points of the course of a life, which creates countless compositions. The experience of seeing the artist’s individual ‘line of thoughts’ may seem familiar, yet it is always different. This combination of “lines of thoughts" in Škuc Gallery seeks to reveal the artist’s visual and intellectual “obsessions”, which reveal the tiny fluctuations in human and social relationships. Although art works narrate different intimate stories of the artist, these are not isolated monoliths, but are inextricably linked with a "sensitive" formal approach and strong personal poetics. On every step it seems that Huzjan’s work is a relentless quest for the epicentre of his creative “push” – continuous attempts to “recognise” his own childhood and human relationships and the quest for the unconscious, the condition which the artist finds to be one of the key drives and sources of contemporary artistic practice. It enables art to touch everyday moments in everyone’s life – intimate thoughts, emotional responses and impulsive actions – revealing the basic disposition, which enables us to survive the beatings of the unstable everyday reality more easily. We invite you to attend a tour of the exhibition on Friday, 25 January 2013 at 6 pm, which will be led by the artist Ištvan Išt Huzjan and curator Tev� Logar. Events: Ištvan Išt Huzjan A Book of Photocopies of Early Korean Conceptual Art We invite you to attend the presentation of the project by Ištvan Išt Huzjan on Thursday, 24 January 2013 at 18.00 in the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova. The Book is the product of Huzjan’s artist in residence programme in Changdong Art Studio Seoul in South Korea, initiated by Museum of Modern Art: he returned from Seoul using public transport. The book, which is an archive of works of an avant-garde group of Korean artist at the end of 1960s and in the early 1970s was presented at a performative intervention to the retrospective exhibition of works by Marko Pogaènik. Like the OHO group in Slovenia, the Avant-garde Group of Korea was one of the most significant movements in Korea after the war, which has strongly influenced younger generations of artists. In addition to the video of the intervention, there will be several other things on display: a comparison of works by groups OHO and AG (works by OHO enabled Huzjan to understand and reclaim the works of Korean artists), artist’s book, a map of the route and a diagram of the Korean group. |
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