Art as a means of achieving freedom

At the central exhibition 36. Graphic Biennale Ljubljana Under the auspices of MGLC, the capital will be the venue for three other layouts, which will place both past and contemporary visual production at the center. Project The beginning of something great. 1955 and I. International Graphic Exhibition are joined by an Indian artist TEMSWINI Narayan Sonawane with an exhibition One moon, one sun and a collective Wednesday on Wednesday with an exhibition Wednesday on Wednesday & Friends.

Exhibition The beginning of something great. 1955 and I. International Graphic Exhibitionprepared by the Museum of Contemporary and Contemporary History of Slovenia (MNSZS) and MGLC, marks I. International Graphics ExhibitionOpen on July 3, 1955 at the Modern Gallery, and illuminates the simultaneous socio-cultural climate. As they point out Gregor Dravil, Tina Fortic Jakopič, Katarina Jurjavčič and Karla Železnikthe authors of the exhibition, which is on view until August 3, was a key art event, with which Ljubljana and thus the former common state visibly placed on the international art map.

“With the participation of foreign and local artists Graphic Biennale Ljubljana connected the home space with the world art scene. At the same time, the exhibition with a long list of participating countries quickly established itself as a synonym for promoting cultural exchanges and peaceful coexistence between nations in a tense cold time. In this politically and artistic turbulent period, the biennial flourished and remained during the time after the fall of the Berlin Wall, « they explained.

It is not negligible that the Museum of National Liberation of the LRS – the predecessor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – presented the first permanent exhibition in 1955 and also created its own graphic and art collections. Exhibition The beginning of something great It includes a wide range of photos and other material related to the first biennial and other events that marked 1955.

In the context of the seventy -year -old Graphic Biennale Ljubljana A comprehensive professional monograph on the history of this exhibition will also be published, and an international conference will be held on this topic in Ljubljana in October.

Artist as a female bird

In the coming months, it will also be possible to see the works of the Indian artist and the recipient of the Grand Prix of the jury as part of the Biennale 35. Graphic Biennale Ljubljana Tezwini Narayan Sonawane, who is on the exhibition One moon, one sun In the Isis Gallery until 12 October, it presents graphic works, drawings, spatial paintings and installations, characterized by layering or blend of the human and animal world, and reality and fantasy.

Tezwini Narayan Sonawane (1987, Solapur, Maharaštra, India), who has received her master’s degree in graphics in Mumbai and so far participated in more than forty solo and group exhibitions, in her work to interfere with various techniques such as woodcut, etching, drawing and watercolors.

Its multifaceted imaging is linked Yasmín Martín Vodopivec« Spreads consciously into unconscious and spreads the matters of artistic creation as a means of achieving freedom. »

The artist thus « establishes a parallel between female and animal principle, femininity, empathy and meaning of peer cohesion, » adds the curator, and the exhibition « thematizes duality in oneness and understanding of otherness as a complementary element of integrity. The layout also follows the concept of duality, as the exhibition space contains two space – in the first we can see the newer production of Tezwini Narayan Sonawane, and in the second we are waiting for a free reconstruction of the artist’s studio. What he has in common with the Central Exhibition of the Biennial is that he explores the potential of art to achieve freedom and face the challenges of the future. « 

The Wednesday art collective (SVS) was founded in 2019 by Žiga Artnak, Urban Cerjak and Matic Flajs (in the photo of the SVS studio in Ljubljana). Photo: Urška Boljovac/Archive MGLC

Self -organized artistic community

Until 12 October, the capital will also be diversified by the Audience Award Exhibition Exhibition 35. Graphic Biennale Ljubljana – Wednesday art collective on Wednesday (SVS) founded in 2019 Žiga Artnak (1986), Urban Cerjak (1986) and Matic Flajs (1994), will be with an exhibition Wednesday on Wednesday & Friends presented in a gallery from Ljubljana Castle.

According to the founders of the collective, the relaxed weekly socializing of friends with the simple idea of ​​exploring art techniques and creative concepts eventually developed into a group with a clear identity, with one of the three Dukič blocks in the center of Ljubljana.

In the context 35. Graphic Biennale Ljubljana The studio of the SVS became the scene of the graphic biennial and the relaxed work site and the meeting place at the same time – at seventeen meetings hosted numerous artists and more than 200 visitors from Belgium, Germany, France, Switzerland, Poland, Australia, Slovakia, India and Romania. Together, they created more than 20 graphic works.

On the exhibition Wednesday on Wednesday & Friendson which artists will present with graphic works in addition to the SVS collective Filip Burburan, Jure Engelsberger, Martin Fujan, Marko Gavez, Petja Kocet, David Krančan, Peter Kuntarič, Matija Medved, Maja Poljanc, Tereza Prepadnik, Valentin Radulovic and Hana Stupicaaccording to the curator Bozidar Zrinski Shown « Ways of acting for a self -organized artistic community, whose goals are constant artistic development, exploration of graphic deep press techniques, collaboration and connection with other authors in the field of contemporary graphic production and establishing the production conditions required for such work ».