ÉLODIE ANTOINE
ROSALÍA BANET
WIEBKE BARTSCH
BARBARA BERNSTEINER
TANIA CANDIANI
BARBARA CAVENG
LADA CERAR
ANDREJKA ČUFER
JOCHEN FLINZER
CLAUS FÖTTINGER
ZUZANNA JANIN
METKA KAVČIČ
JUSTYNA KOEKE
MICHAEL KOS
EDUARD LESJAK
MARTIN LÖFFKE
POLONA MAHER
ISA MELSHEIMER
JANET MORTON
ALEN OŽBOLT
SANDRINE PELLETIER
MARIJA MOJCA PUNGERČAR
IRIS SCHIEFERSTEIN
SAŠO SEDLAČEK
CHIHARU SHIOTA
KEI TAKEMURA
ANDRÉ TEMPEL
ANU TUOMINEN
JULIA VAN KOOLWIJK
MARJOLIJN VAN DER MEIJ
PETRA VARL
PATRICIA WALLER
SILKE WAWRO

Andrejka Čufer


Thread, 2007 (washed drawing, handmade cotton paper)

In her unique artist's book, bilingually entitled Nit/Faden, Andrejka Čufer uses her characteristic style to pay another tribute to material and traditional handicraft techniques, which in the
current instantaneous way of life have been largely cast into oblivion, and which survive only
due to revivals, such as Čufar's artistic expression. In fact, her works represent the clash between the so-called high arts and applied arts, since they combine the spheres and expertise of ancient crafts, such as paper making, hand bookbinding, calligraphy and ornamentation, with illustration, book design, painting and sculpture. In the exhibited piece, meaningfully entitled Thread, the artist actualises women's skills of knitting, sewing, embroidering and decorating on the levels of material and content. She looks to everyday objects in search of a mode of reinvesting the material or the handiwork – e.g. a uniquely produced book – with the "reputation and attention of the book from the time when it was still leafed through, when a man was not
yet saturated with visual information and when hands were still longing to touch something exquisite, rare and valuable". Leafing through her book arouses the wish to see with our hands, to understand – by means of human technical deficiencies – that the product was made by specific hands and not by some faultless machine, and that these hands did not concern themselves with time when putting together materials and making compositions – in contrast
with the dictated pace of printing machines. The artist has been using thread already in her previous books. The substance of the book created for this exhibition also starts from thread
and deals with commonly known syntagmas including the word "thread", presented as illustrations with a high degree of contemplation. While leafing through the book we encounter her utterly personal understandings of myths and various phenomena, such as Ariadne's red thread, the main thematic thread, lifesaving thread, first thread or umbilical cord, astral thread, spider thread and the like.

Born in 1961 in Jesenice. She graduated in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 1985. She is engaged in painting, lighting sculptural objects made of paper, illustration and design. She won several awards. She lives and works in the village of Vrba in Upper Carniola (Slovenia).

Solo exhibitions (selection):

2006 Dotik pogleda, Galerija Hermana Pečariča, Piran
Pomladni vzorci, Slovenski znanstveni inštitut, Vienna
2002 Prepletanke, Galerija TR3, Ljubljana
1999 Dotik papirja, Galerija sodobne umetnosti, Celje
1998 Dotik papirja, Galerija Šivčeva hiša, Radovljica

Group exhibitions (selection):

2007 Supernova, Österreichisches Kulturforum, Bratislava
2005 Avtorska knjiga umetnika, ZAVOD P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E in MGLC, Ljubljana
Bukva - razstava knjige ob posebnem priznanju za najlepšo bibliofilsko knjigo na Slovenskem knjižnem sejmu, Ljubljana
1999 „Winsor&Newton” - nagrada in razstava na mednarodnem natečaju London
Ex tempore - nagrada in razstava za najboljše delo v tehniki akvarela, Obalne galerije Piran