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Slikarska ambientalna postavitev na prostem
Mateje Kavčič “Krog”
v četrtek, 11. 5. 2006 ob 19. uri,
na vrt Komenskega 8, Ljubljana.
Razstava sodi v cikel Štirje letni časi na Vrtu / Pomlad 2006.
Kustosinja razstave je Barbara Sterle Vurnik.
Glasbena spremljava: Sunart music
Razstava bo na ogled do 14. 6. 2006.
Izvedbo razstave je omogočil Oddelek za kulturo in raziskovalno dejavnost Mestne občine Ljubljana.

Komenskega 8, 1000 Ljubljana, tel.: +386 1 434 9465
e-naslov: info@dlul-drustvo.si, www.dlul-drustvo.si

Veliko in hkrati malo potrebuje ambientalna intervencija za svoj obstoj potem, ko jo ustvarjalec seveda najprej sploh “položi” v ta svet: primeren prostorski kontekst in aktivnega gledalca. Brez tega je mrtva. Biva, a ne živi.
Ustvariti soodvisno magnetno polje vseh teh komponent je temeljni izziv umetnikov, ki se lotevajo tako zahtevnega in nepredvidljivega dela. Muhavost narave namreč mora v svojem nenehnem spreminjanju ustvarjalca pozitivno presenečati, pomeniti izziv in nikakor oviro. Zato tudi odločitev, da pomladno poletni čas tokrat pripade prav idejam, vizijam in delu slikarke mlajše generacije, Mateji Kavčič.
Morda se kdo še spomni Matejinega projekta leta 1997 v ljubljanskem parku Tivoli in odlično vraščenih slik štirih elementov v naravno okolje...? Galerije, ki so ji bila tla travnik in strop nebo? Po tem se dolgo več ni lotila česa podobnega. Medtem so nastajala nova dela, vse do cikla okroglih slik Letnih časov. Ta je pritegnil pozornost in obrodil povabilo, da se avtorica poskuša ponovno tako uspešno kot nekoč, spogledati z delom neposredno v naravi. Tako je začela nastajati Matejina najnovejša umetniška intervencija.
Slikarka se rada zateka k arhetipski simboliki, Empedoklesov nauk o štirih neminljivh prasnoveh je zdaj pregnetla oziroma nadgradila z ikonografijo štirih letnih časov, ki vznemirja umetnike že skozi vso zgodovino umetnosti in očitno še vedno ni izčrpana. S tem je na svoj način podala naravo v vsej njeni veličastnosti. Ta je namreč že vseskozi glavni in edini junak slikarkinega ustvarjanja, polje intimnega rituala in meditacije. Z njo ne tekmuje, iz nje izhaja, jo živi in vanjo (se) vrača. S tem na izviren način sklene krog. Vsakič znova. Ciklično. Kakor teče tudi čas in z njim vsaka zima, pomlad, poletje in jesen.
Takšne so njene okrogle slike in takšne so njene instalacije.
Tokrat Mateja niz že nastalih okroglih platen Letnih časov, prepredenih z rastlinjem v obliki koncentričnih žarčenj in lastnih posameznim letnim časom, ponovi, a v drugačnem kontekstu. Obdela jih po principu življenjskega krogotoka. Preslika njihove detajle, jih sestavi v nova razmerja, skrije robove. Poruši prvotne meje. Končni print nove podobe prevzema vlogo svojevrstnega vrta, simbolične spiralne poti, pot neskončnih ponovitev:
od jedra k jedru - od narave k sebi in nazaj. V Matejinih delih vlada kozmični red - vse se ponavlja, pa vendar spreminja.
Kako se sprehoditi skozi njen “vrt”? Predvsem ne samo enkrat!
Raje večkrat ... ga morda skoraj obredno ponavljati. Kajti to ne pomeni resničnega vračanja ampak nadgrajevanje, pot naprej. Tako ustvarja Mateja, tako živi narava, tako se nenazadnje menjavajo letni časi in tečejo naša življenja. Zagotovo ne bomo nikoli na istem mestu, četudi se nam bo na trenutke zdelo tako.
BARBARA STERLE VURNIK

ENGLISH

After the creator has ‘brought’ it into this world, ambient intervention
simultaneously requires much and little for its existence. Simply, perhaps, an adequate
spatial context and an active spectator. Without that it is dead. It exists, but doesn’t live.
A basic challenge that artists who undertake such a demanding and unpredictable
work face is to create a correlative field from all those components. Above all, the
unpredictable temperament of nature in its ceaseless change must positively surprise the
creator, be a challenge and never an obstacle. Thus it has been decided that the
spring-summer time belongs this time to the ideas, vision and work of Mateja Kavčič,
an artist of the younger generation.
Some may still remember Mateja’s 1997 project in Tivoli Park Ljubljana,
which excellently embodied pictures of the four elements. The gallery was the natural
environment, the floor of which was a meadow and the sky its ceiling. Not since then
has she undertaken anything similar. Meanwhile, however, new works have taken shape,
until now ‘Seasons’, a cycle of round pictures. This has attracted attention and resulted
in an invitation to the author to try as successfully as previously to exchange a glance
directly at nature. That was how Mateja’s newest artistic project began.
The artist likes to use archetypal symbolism as a resource. Empedocles teaching
about the four imperishable elements is kneaded, or perhaps upgraded, with the
iconography of the four seasons that have thrilled artists throughout the history of art
and evidently have not yet been exhausted. In doing so, she has presented nature in all
its grandeur in her own way. Nature is the main and only hero of the artist’s creation
throughout her work, and her field of intimate ritual and meditation. She does not
compete with it, but arises from it, lives in it and returns to it. Thus she, in her original
way, closes the circle each time anew. It is cyclically the same as time passing and
with it every winter, spring, summer and autumn. Such are her round pictures and such
are her installations.
This time, Mateja has repeated a series of already existing round canvases
called ‘Seasons’. These are covered with greenery in the shape of concentric radials that
are appropriate to particular seasons, although in a different context. She works on them
under the principle of the cycle of life. She copies their details, incorporating them in
new relationships, hides the edges, and removes their former boundaries. The final print
of the new image takes on the role of a unique garden, a symbolic spiral path, a path of
endless repetitions formed core-to-core from nature to her and back. Cosmic order rules
Mateja’s work. Everything repeats, but changes.
How to walk through her ‘Garden’? Above all, not just once. Better to do
so more often. Repeat almost ritually. This does not means genuine repetition but an
upgrade of the path forward. In such a way Mateja creates, nature lives and last but
not least seasons change and our lives go on. We will definitely never be in the same
place twice, although it may perhaps seem like this from time to time.
BARBARA STERLE VURNIK

Mateja Kavčič, rojena 16. 8. 1970 v Novem mestu, leta 1989 končala Srednjo šolo
za oblikovanje in fotografijo, smer - grafično oblikovanje, leta1994 diplomirala iz slikarstva na Akademiji za likovno umetnost v Ljubljani pri prof. Janezu Berniku in iz likovne teorije pri prof. Jožefu Muhoviču, leta 1995 sprejeta v ZDSLU in v Razvid samozaposlenih v kulturi, leta 2005 v DLUL, v šolskem letu 1996/97 obiskovala slikarsko specializacijo na ALU pri prof. Lojzetu Logarju.

Mateja Kavčič, born on 16th August 1970 in Novo mesto, finished Secondary School of
Design and Photography specializing in graphic design in 1989, completed her degree in painting at the Academy of Arts in Ljubljana studying under professor Janez Bernik, and in the theory of art studying under professor Jožef Muhovič in 1994, she was admitted to ZDSLU in 1995, and to DLUL in 2005, in the academic year 1996/97 she attended the art specialization at ALU studying under professor Lojze Logar. She is an independent artist.

samostojne razstave / solo exhibitions:
2006
- razstava slik "Letni časi" (varianta 4) - galerija Kresija, Ljubljana
- slikarska ambientalna postavitev na prostem “Krog”, vrt Komenskega 8,
iz cikla Štirje letni časi na Vrtu / Pomlad 2006, Ljubljana
- prestavitev slikarske ambientalne postavitve “Krog” na vrt Lamutovega
likovnega salona, Kostanjevica na Krki
2005 - razstava slik “Letni časi” (varianta 3), Grad Podsreda
2004 - razstava slik “Letni časi” (varianta 2), Dvorana v parku, Krško
2003 - razstava slik “Letni časi” (varianta 1), Galerija Ivana Groharja, Škofja Loka
2000 - razstava risb, Galerija, Krško
1998 - objava dvanajstih slik in risb v literarni reviji Apokalipsa
1997 - razstava risb in mozaikov, KUD France Prešeren, Ljubljana
- slikarska ambientalna postavitev na prostem “Galerija”, park Tivoli, Ljubljana
1995 - razstava slik, Galerija “»rni orel”, Idrija
- razstava grafik, knjižnica Ekonomske fakultete, Ljubljana
- razstava slik, avla Kulturnega doma, Krško
1994 - razstava slik, KUD France Prešeren, Ljubljana
1992 - razstava slik, cerkev Sv. Križa, Krško
- razstava grafik v “študentskem kotičku”, Galerija Ars, Ljubljana

skupinske razstave / group exhibitions:
2006 - Pogled 4 “Risba”, Lamutov likovni salon, Kostanjevica na Krki
2004 - “Mali format”, Galerija Ivana Groharja, Škofja Loka
- Pogled 3 “Popolnoma moje...”, Lamutov likovni salon, Kostanjevica na Krki
2003 - “Mali format”, Galerija Ivana Groharja, Škofja Loka
1999 - dobrodelna prodajna razstava “Za kulturo življenja”, Galerija Mežnarija, Mengeš
1998 - “Kaj postaviti na vrt namesto palčka in gobice?”, Galerija Latobia, Ljubljana
1996 - prva razstava iz cikla “Na rastanku s tisučlijeEem”, Fortuna Art, Zagreb
1995 - Majski salon, Jakopičeva galerija, Ljubljana
1993 - MINI PRINT Slovenije, International Sarajevo art aid, Galerija Rotovž
in Umetnostna galerija, Maribor
- razstava grafik, KUD France Prešeren, Ljubljana
- razstava slik in grafik, grad Mokrice
1992 - izbor risb študentov ALU, Galerija Ars, Ljubljana
- izbor del študentov ALU, Mestna galerija, Ljubljana
1990 - Galerija, Krško
- Galerija Slon, Novo mesto

naslov / address: Frankovo naselje 61, 4220 Škofja Loka, Slovenija
telefon / telephone: +386 4 513 1057, mobile: +389 41 923 318
e-mail: mateja.kavcic@gmail.com

Organizacija razstave in izdajatelja / Organization of the exhibition and publishers:
Društvo likovnih umetnikov Ljubljana, zanj / Represented by: Alenka Vidrgar, Dušan Muc
Galerija Božidar Jakac, zanjo / Represented by: Bojan Božič
Kustosinja razstave / Curator: Barbara Sterle Vurnik
Postavitev razstave / Installation of the exhibition: Mateja Kavčič
besedilo / Text: Barbara Sterle Vurnik; prevod v angleščino / English translation: Bojana Dragoš; lektoriranje angleškega
besedila / Editing of the English translation: Alasdair Green; fotografija / Photography: Mateja Kavčič, Jurij Kladnik;
priprava in tisk / DTP and printed by: Mat-Format d.o.o.; naklada / Print run: 1200 izvodov / Copies; april 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenija