PHOTONIC MOMENTS festival 2010 is closed!
With the opening of Marko Lipuš’s solo exhibition Photocartoons in Photon Gallery – Centre for Contemporary Photography in Ljubljana and award giving ceremony for the best exhibition of Photonic Moments – Month of Photography 2010 this years fes...
2010
2010
Fotonični trenutki 2010
Festival Photonic Moments 2010 is closed!
‘Tension Field’
from October 21 until November 14, 2010
Mala galerija / Cankarjev dom Ljubljana
Curators: Max Aufischer, Aleksander Bassin, Zuzana Lapitkova, Svetlana Mladenov, Zoran Petrovski, Sabina Salamon, Dejan Sluga
Artists: Ivan Blažev, Tomaš Blonski, Ranko Dokmanović, Jan Durina, Vlado Elias, Mario Furcak, G.R.A.M., Christoph Grill, Živko Gvozdanić, Robert Jankuloski, Jelena Jeruša, Daniel Kariko, Damjan Kocjančič, Stevan Kojić, Damir Krizmanić – Kriza, SofijaSilvia, Jože Suhadolnik, Goran Škofić, Antonio Živkovič
Partners: Kulturvermittlung Steiermark – CCN Graz, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Arts Rijeka, Museum of Contemporary Arts Skopje, Central European House of Photography Bratislava, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina Novi Sad, Photon Association Ljubljana
In the last decades, centres for art photography have been established in many European countries. Some started out in the field of amateur photography and others developed in the context of fine art. Their efforts resulted in the fact that photography is finally being considered and respected as artistic expression. However, in the East / South East Europe the situation is still underdeveloped in comparison to countries which embraced photography as an art form soon after the WWII. The institutional sphere in the SEE region has witnessed relatively slow progress in this area with very rare specialized public institutions for photography (Houses of Photography in Bratislava and Budapest are more exemptions from the rule). However, this part of Europe has had a strong tradition and a very vivid network of amateur and photo-club scenes, which have evolved into the present contemporary photography situation.
Jeffrey Silverthorne – ‘Crossing Times’
From October 27 until November 22 2010
Galerija Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography Ljubljana
What’s a photograph? A depiction, usually – sometimes it’s a manipulation or an illusion. The best ones, for me, are transporters, peeks, for an instant, at something never seen in the way that it is seen. Or maybe seen, but we don’t realize we see it. Art is that. Thousands of artists arranged colors and a few lines. But there is only one Mondrian, and we say, “Hot damn, wow”. No, Silverthorne is not Mondrian. But it is not silly to mention the two together, if only because of the hot-damn factor, the “I wish I have done that” quality, the incidental that “sits” just right.
Lee Miller – ‘Legendarna Lee Miller’
from November 22, 2010 until January 9, 2011
Jakopič Gallery – Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana
A photographer Lee Miller (1907-1977) began her career as a muse and a collaborator of the Surrealist photographer Man Ray in Paris. Her photographs have earned her a key place in the history of art; her surrealist images along with her pack shots, portraits and extraordinary WWII combat photographs, which she took as the war correspondent during the Second World War. Together with her husband Roland Penrose they were developing strong artistic and friendly contacts with many important artists of 20th Century. Legendary Lee Miller, the retrospective exhibition of 96 Lee’s original photographs presents the chronological overview of her artistic development.
‘Present Continous’ – Sodobna fotografija iz Madžarske
from November 11 until December 5, 2010
Galerija sodobne umetnosti Celje
The young artists selected for the series – started in 2005 and continuously expanding since then – represent every type of photography: from autonomous photographers, documentary photographers working with photo-essays as well as photo-reporters. The diversity and uniqueness of their works reflect the questions of the present. The theory behind these exhibitions is to give a reflection to a given question from many points of views, as it was reflected in the series of the individual artists following their own styles. The continuously expanding exhibition material is providing comprehensive picture of the Hungarian contemporary trends.
‘Nova Srbska fotografija’
From November 4 until December 1, 2010
Galerija Simulaker Novo mesto
Aleksandrija Ajduković, Benjamin Beker, Goran Micevski, Vesna Micović, Branka Nedimović, Miloš Nenković, Andrijana Pajović, Tijana Pakić-Feterman, Dragan Petrović, Ivan Petrović, Katarina Radović, Mihailo Vasiljević.
Curators: Vesna Micović, Katarina Radović.
The selection of works for presentation of contemporary Serbian photography is based upon a diversity of approaches to the photographic medium and on the variety of subjects which co-exist in a common aesthetic, social and ideological universe. The image these artists offer about themselves, their identity as well as their environment, acts as the complex image of the world from which they rise. They belong to the younger generation of Serbian photographers who, in the given socio-political situation, decorate their own historical stage, raising a number of new questions or offering answers to some raised long time ago.
‘Drugi polčas’ – Sodobna slovaška fotografija
From October 22 until November 20, 2010
Umetnostna galerija Maribor
On Second Half Time exhibition, after five-year existence of the Studio of Photography, you can see nine artists – graduates and students of the studio, in a concept exhibition, which is leaning on their individual works as well as mutual relations. Not all students are represented here, because it was aimed to make an exhibition, which, apart from individual testimonies, would say something more articulate: about common, if only subconscious, feelings of end, loneliness, sadness and fall. General aspiration was to have students, well in fact graduates of the Studio of Photography, who’d be able of individual artist’s statement, independent reflection as well as cooperation within a group or generation.
Gojmir Anton Kos – ‘A Painter in Dialogue with Photography’
From October 5 until December 5 2010
Moderna galerija Ljubljana
This study exhibition comprises approximately one hundred photographs – some originals, the rest prints made for this occasion – and a number of related paintings. In addition to the photographs the painter used as references for some of his landscape motifs, also works that reveal his complex perception of the medium of photography, will be presented for the first time. Kos was a master portrait photographer, as is evident from the pictures of his family members, and he based the effect of his street shots, whether in big European cities or in villages, on visually and psychologically powerful moments.
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Trine Søndergaard and Gina Zacharias
From October 28 until November 26 2010
Mestna galerija Ljubljana
Trine Søndergaard and Gina Zacharias belong to the younger generation and more eminent representatives of contemporary photography and art scene in Denmark, although they are both working in broader international art world. In her last projects Trine Søndergaard (1972) deals mostly with the portrait and landscape photography. In the series Monochrome Portraits we are confronted with the works primarily defined through use of colour or shades of colour. In the series Hesitating Silence Gina Zacharias (1975) is offering the viewer two different ways in “reading”; we could interpret particular works as “fragments of reality” or as images containing some hidden meaning.
Marko Lipuš – ‘Photo-Cartoons’
From November 24 until December 18, 2010
Galerija Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography Ljubljana
Photocartoons are a blend of scanned and digital photo-material. Image editing software allows the artist to compose and edit digital templates, as well as create an original and dynamic aesthetic form through mixing line drawings with various photographic samples, scans and digital images of various qualities. In terms of style, photocartoons are a mixture of comic strip and caricature, reflecting current moods and contemporary spirit. The individual and autonomous aesthetic exterior can be compared to the pop art of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, and, accordingly, understood as a quotation.
Goran Bertok – ‘Red and Black’
from October 29 until November 14, 2010
Kibela / Kibla Maribor
Goran Bertok’s solo exhibition Red and Black presents his latest artistic projects shown in different contexts and exhibitions in last six years. Selection of photographic works from the series The Visitors (2004), Post Mortem (2007), Red (2009) and untitled video trilogy (2008) will present the valuable body of work of the artist, who has been over the last twenty years continuously exploring human body, its fragility and ephemerality that finally led him to its utmost end – physical death. Death itself and confronting the dead body turned out to be tremendous taboo nowadays and in this sense Goran Bertok is again dealing with frontiers of life and death, boundaries of reality and art work.
Tomaž Tomažin, ‘Series 360′
From November 3 until November 23, 2010
Sokolski dom Škofja Loka
Series 360 is a serial of photographic panoramas presented in light boxes, which Tomažin began in the year 2007. Using montage technic he combines photographs into panoramas that cover the entire 360 degrees of space around the recording axis. Photograps show carefully designed mise-en-scène in which Tomažin appears multiplied in different roles and carefully directed stories which are in contrast with the entiresness of space always fragmented. Tomaž Tomažin graduated in sculpture at the Fine Art Academy in Ljubljana (2000), where he finished also postgraduate study in new media and sculpture (2004).
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Marko Jamnik and Boštjan Perovšek – ‘Projection of the City’
From October 20 until November 14, 2010
Galerija Vžigalica (MGML) Ljubljana
The Projection of the City exhibition is conceived as research into the life of a metropolis, as a large ‘organism’ whose image is defined both by structure as well as the anomalies which disrupt its structure, and at the same time establish the grounds for an even more solid construction, thus allowing such a monumental formation to function. Photography, as a static image of a city is enlivened and animated by the soundscape of the city, which encourages the motion of a photographic motif. A stable symmetrical frozen image surrenders to the vivacious intrusions of random intervention, and follows the city’s arbitrary auditory composition that forms its signature.
Nataša Košmerl – ‘September’
From October 22 until November 13, 2010
Fotogalerija Stolp Maribor
Natasa Košmerl’s September series works of art are like visual diary entries. They are denoted by intimacy, introspection and the questioning of the artist’s own identity. Poetic landscapes, melancholy interiors, scenes from family life and exposed fragments of love life all carry a profoundly personal intonation. The artist’s emotional involvement which is evident throughout her work enriches the captured moments with a certain special intensity.
Her photography paints a subtle portrait of the author herself, of her awareness of own individuality and questions her distance towards others.
V.A.T Group – ‘Zone Trbovlje’
From November 2 until November 20, 2010
Delavski dom Trbovlje
V.A.T Group: Špela Pavli, Maša Jazbec, Lili Bedekovič, Andrej Uduč, Andrej Grilj, Primož Zakrajšek, Katja Sovre, Marjan Korenjak, Robert Ahlin, Matic Kolar, Tanja Hanžič, David Čavar.
Artists, entangled within the social structure of degraded worker’s town, use articulated and at the same time poetic form of photography to speak up about themselves, their intimacy, relationship to the world, about the fears and hopes and expectations, about life. Zone Trbovlje deals with artifacts and the sediments of time which is irrevocably coming to an end. At the same time it shows the possible outlooks of the future. Different affinities of the artists together form a complex image of particular architectural and social structure of closed and sometimes self-sustaining community.
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Branko Lenart – ‘Body.Language 1971 – 2010′
from November 5, 2010 until January 5, 2011
Galerija Dom KULTure Ptuj
Back in the 19th century, the photographic eye became dedicated to the naked – predominantly female – form. With a refined focus on body language, Branko Lenart additionally extends the classical and popular motif of the nude. Rather than ousting or even losing nudity, his approach points out poises, gestures and touches, whilst the pre-eminence of a human body vindicates its place in the immensity of the natural milieu. Past and present, artificial and natural, form the horizon of projection to meet a motif which, in this particular case, is not confined to the lustful eye.
Antonio Živkovič – ‘Traces of the Past’
from November 23 until December 7, 2010
Galerija Kud ateljeMIKADO Ljubljana
Ever since the 90’s, Antonio Živkovič has been becoming one of those photographers who form their own unique artistic style which sets them apart from other artists. His interest mostly lies in industrial stories formed in the past and presenting the basis for technical progress. This involves mostly architecture from the areas of heavy industry, which means the construction of such buildings was mostly practical. We can see an interesting visual meaning within many of these buildings, a meaning that becomes more apparent with the age of the architecture.
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Aljaž Velički – ‘What Have We Forgotten?’
From November 10 until December 1, 2010
Modra hiša, Ljubljana
Aljaž Velički, a young Slovenian photographer, who is in his fourth year of studies under professor Lubo Stach at the renowned Vysoki školi vytvarnych umenia (Academy of Fine Arts and Design) in Bratislava, is presenting his work with two series of photographs with a joint name What have we forgotten? Both series appear very different at first glance, as the artist uses different photographic techniques to achieve a certain goal; however they are also very alike, as they represent his thoughts about the world. With this project, Aljaž Velički uncompromisingly, yet sensibly, takes on the bigger issues in life.
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Dušan Merklin – Mick – ‘Glamorous Underground’
from October 14 until October 22, 2010
Studio Osem, Galerija Tukadmunga
Dušan Merklin – Mick is not interested in applying new trends in contemporary photography to his work. Instead, he remains true to his own experience; the experience of an individualistic planetary wanderer. His images carry an almost classical quality; their magical poetry breathes with the spirituality of modern-day Sufism, anchored by the artist’s life. Rather than looking for entirely new, unique and self-sufficient artistic forms of expression, Merklin seeks a special yet universal form of communication.
PHOTONIC MOMENTS – MONTH OF PHOTOGRAPHY 2010
PHOTONIC MOMENTS festival 2010 is closed!
With the opening of Marko Lipuš’s solo exhibition Photocartoons in Photon Gallery – Centre for Contemporary Photography in Ljubljana and award giving ceremony for the best exhibition of Photonic Moments – Month of Photography 2010 this years fes...
