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

Metka Kavčič


Lacework, 2007 (welded steel)

Thread as material in the work of Metka Kavčič is present at the implicit level. It shows only
in an immaterial form, that is, in the shapes and the soundtrack, but even then only in a highly abstract manner. This is understandable, for the sculptural installation that charms with its intertwined forms and musical score does not reflect reality, but speaks about it. The artist combines formal and musical languages to speak about Idrija lacework – also hinted at in the title of the work, Lacework. She places it within the tradition and thus creates a narration paying tribute to the handicraft that co-defines – as one of the national symbols – the identity of Slovenia, the country in which the artist lives and works, to which she belongs. But the use of rough material – rolled sheet metal – conveys another meaning: if lacework is bound to
women's creativity, the utilised material symbolises its male counterpoint. Also meaningful is
the soundtrack of the bobbin work, which connotes contemporary, machine-elaborated compositions. In the work of Matka Kavčič, the combination of welded steel and musical score comes across as a metaphor for the emancipation of the contemporary woman.

Born in 1960 in Maribor (Slovenia). In 1981 she completed her studies of fine art education at the Academy of Education in Maribor and in 1987 she graduated from the sculpture department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana under Professor Slavko Tihec. In 1990 she finished her postgraduate studies of restoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana and took professional training in classical modelling at the Ecóle Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Art in Paris. She worked for several years in the Regional Museum in Ptuj. Recently she works as a free-lance artist.

Solo exhibitions (selection):

2006 Zapredene sledi, Umetnostna galerija Maribor, Maribor
2004 Meščani, Mestna hiša Ljubljana
Metkino nabodalo, Metka Kavčič Takač and Branimir Ritonja, Gruberjevo nabrežje, Ljubljana
2001 Varno zavrženo, Tehniški muzej Slovenije, Bistra
2000 Vrata, Galerija Šivčeva hiša, Radovljica

Group exhibitions (selection):

2005 Mavrica prijateljstva, Mariborski likovni umetniki, Galerija Romana Petrovića, Sarajevo
2004 Prt, Chateau Tours, Tours
2002 Razstava članov DLUM, Galerija Luka, Pula
2001 Udeleženci likovne kolonije in DLUM, Kulturni center – Villa de Mostoles, Mostoles – Madrid
Mednarodni trienale male plastike, Galerija Murska Sobota, Murska Sobota
1999 DLUM '99, Kulturhaus Galerie, Bruck an der Mur
1996 Risba, Majski salon '96, Galerija Riharda Jakopiča, Ljubljana