EXHIBITION

U3 – 6TH Triennial of Contemporary Art – Idea for Living

Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Ljubljana, 06/15/2010 - 09/19/2010

Cankarjeva 15, 1000 Ljubljana

ABOUT

APT artist Jasmina Cibic is participating the 6th U3 Slovenian art triennial, showing her work "20th Century" a photographic series with sculptures, which the artist created specifically for the 6th Triennial of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana. Cibic has worked with a trainer of birds of prey to produce this study of the birds’ movements and their interaction with sculptures which she intentionally made as replicas of some of the most iconic design objects of the 20th century. The co-habitation of the two elements seeksto promote the analysis of two examples of commodification – architecture of display and the work of art as such. The artist uses the image of birds of prey as a strong leitmotif throughout her practice,

as a symbol of shifting degrees of souvenir production: hunting birds were initially used by man to satisfy the basic needs for food, only later did the humankind begin to substitute their value for a cultivated experience of nature, as a trophy and an ornament. People who possessed sufficient power were placing stuffed birds and other animals next to precious and famous art and design objects. Stemming from this fact Cibic questions the status of the work of art, its significance, its policies of representation and its relationship to the spectator.  By Miha Colner

The 6th U3 Slovenian art triennial focuses on how artists from across the generations reflect on realism and reality today. The works both depict (as in realism) and take a direct part in (as in reality) activities and relationships in the world. The exhibition foregrounds artistic proposals that suggest ways to read history anew, focus on the environment and the social and reflect intimate relations among communities, families and friends. In general, the works are not centred on the inner life of the artist but on his/her relationship to external conditions. This choice for reality was made because it reflects the current strengths of the Slovenian art scene. In addition it emphasises a continuity with Slovene artistic practices in which realism and, later, a readiness to include techniques and subjects outside of the traditions of l?art pour l?art are very present. For this reason works from the collection of Moderna Galerija going back to the 1940s have also been included in U3.

Realism: a brief history
The question of realism has produced many of the sharpest debates between radicals and conservatives in visual art over the past 100 years. As the first modern artist, Gustav Courbet's realism shocked a bourgeois art public looking for beauty and drama in painting. Later, the battle between the painters of everyday life and the ambitions of the avant-garde for new visions of a new world defined modernism. Realism at this time was understood as a safer or less radical choice for artists, yet it always retained its value as a more direct form of communication with a wide public than abstraction or concept art. 

Indeed, the doctrines of socialist realism as developed in the Soviet Union were intended to produce an art that was comprehensible to and inspirational for the proletariat, as well as a means to control undesirable questioning and experimentation. Throughout the period of modernism, both realism and the avant-garde battled against each other across Europe and beyond, neither gaining a final victory. The growth of new media, first through art photography and later video and digital imaging added new levels to the realism debate with the capacity to directly capture an image of the real and reproduce it in a form of art. Photography offered an even more direct relationship to surrounding reality than ever possible before, while collage and later digital editing created the means to fictionalise these apparently direct, indexical media.

Participants

Nika Autor, Jože Barši, Berko, Boks, BridA (Tom Kerševan, Sendi Mango, Jurij Pavlica), Matija Brumen, Vesna Bukovec, Jasmina Cibic, Vuk Ćosić, Delavsko-punkerska univerza, Lojze Dolinar, Leon Dolinšek, Domestic Research Society and Amir Muratović, Vadim Fiškin, Samo Gosarič, Tomislav Gotovac, Dejan Habicht, Irwin, Ištvan Išt Huzjan, Marco Juratovec, Jaša, Bogoslav Kalaš, Tine Kos, Tanja Lažetić, Vladimir Leben, Polonca Lovšin, Anja Medved, OHO, Borut Peterlin, Nikolaj Pirnat, Tihomir Pinter, Tadej Pogačar and P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art, Marko Pogačnik, Uroš Potočnik, Marjetica Potrč, radioCona (Irena Pivka, Brane Zorman), Sašo Sedlaček, SMALL BUT DANGERS (Mateja Rojc, Simon Hudolin-Salči), Slavko Smolej, Bálint Szombathy, Nika Špan, Miha Štrukelj, Matjaž Wenzel, Dunja Zupančič::Miha Turšič::Dragan Živadinov, Želimir Žilnik.

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APT ARTISTS ON VIEW

Jasmina Cibic

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