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TVOJ DOTIK JE MOJ ČOPIČ/ |
| About the Artist | |
Široko polje slikarskega spektra in temeljit vpogled v dela starih mojstrov modernizma sta mi predstavila temeljni pomen specifične naloge slikarstva, tj. lepoto umetniškega dela doseči s pomočjo tipne in vidne narave, povezane z globino človeškega duha. Že Leonardo da Vinci je nekoč dejal, da vse vidne stvari izhajajo iz narave, iz njih pa je nato nastalo slikarstvo. |
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ZOJA/ Painting for One Million Euro and 24 Cents / Dedicated to Universal Lover
2007 |
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| Project: One Million Euro and 24 Cents Painting.----------
There are people who think that it is hard to set value of art, that art is timeless, ethereal, and full of inspiration somewhere in the sterile landscape of aesthetic measures. And since it is not possible to estimate its value, then it is supposed to be for free. An artist is an exception in the world where everyone charges everything. Especially Slovenian artists. They should be happy to save enough money for canvas and colours. And to charge for their work seems almost like a scandal. Art has no price, especially if instead of a painting of a young Slovenian artist we decide to hang up on the wall a reproduction we have bought in supermarket just for a few coins. And we saved some money… So, what have we lost?
At the same time we are witnessing a wild fetishisation of art, which is becoming more and more intended only for “consecrated”. We are not even allowed to touch it. For the rest of us there is turbo-folk, societies for country women and girls, and sponsored exhibitions in front of the ticket office. That’s it. That is what we are allowed to consummate and slowly languish. Art critics are right to be indignant at Slovenian art market: we have artists that could be compared to anybody just anywhere in the world, but we have nobody to pave their way. Slovenian collectors appreciate only “the names”, while despites their enthusiasm numerous small private galleries can not perform their role.
But, what could be done? How could works of art from young artists get their value? We have decided for a brave, but somewhat risky move. We decided to set the price ourselves. Overbearing behaviour? Maybe, but do we have any other possibility to drawl public attention to underestimation of artistic works? We are selling the painting ZOJA of Barbara Eva Zavodnik for no less than € 1,000,000.24. We are aware of the fact that the price is “unreal”, utopian and exaggerated. But we are sure of one thing: there is a slight, but realistic chance for the painting to be sold. Due to a simple fact that the amount someone is prepared to pay for a “piece of art” depends on how much it means to him/her.
Since it is hard to believe that anybody would actually buy the painting, we will provide that visitors will have the possibility to pay negligible amounts for reproduction of the painting or for purchasing the image for background of their cell phone. And this is what matters. We would like to draw attention of the public to the mysterious relations between expensive – cheap, original – copy and to persuade people to ask themselves what is the »realistic« value of the painting. Has art its value on the market or is it just a hobby of a handful of enthusiastic collectors? However we won’t be stopping there. We plan to exhibit the painting in bigger cities around Slovenia in the following two years. The next exhibition will be in Severia Gallery in Koper. Maybe it will sound too ambitious, but we will try to launch the painting as the most recognisable Slovenian work of art outside the narrow circle of artistic profession. The purpose is simple. Would such painting be worth more or less? Would it get better or worse artistic critics? Answers won’t be simple, but interesting. And at the same time this is the way to promote young Slovenian authors and art itself. And this is the key objective of our project.----------
Who will buy a painting for one million euros and 24 cents?----------By Zoran Srdić----------
If we take a statement by Gombrich: ''There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.'' then the sale and exhibition project One Million Euro and 24 Cent Painting can be described as the establishment of the institution of the artist Barbara Eva Zavodnik and her intrusion into the wider public sphere. The exhibited painting With your Perfume Impregnated, Half in Dream, created from the artist’s personal love experiences made in the technique of oil on canvas. It combines the elements of an urban collage of torn posters and graffiti, which, mixed together, create a new palimpsest image. The author strongly highlights the relations between levels with colour, which gives the painting a poetic character. The painting itself displays thick layers of paint with which the author wishes to draw attention to the difference between the material original and its reproductions which will be available as backgrounds for mobile phone screens in the project One Million Euro and 24 Cent Painting.
For the project One Million Euro and 24 Cent Painting we can say that it is of a conceptual nature, which exposes promotion as the fundamental artistic strategy. It is incorporated among the projects on large billboards which promote art and culture, take over the mechanisms of advertising, and bombard the passers-by with their “ART” message. Since every individual cannot resist the visual messages of advertisements and through them the products of everyday life, similarly in these instances one cannot prevent the art to affect a person in spite of their solid conviction that they don’t want anything to do with it.
The question of the amount of one million euros and a few cents in the project’s title is one of its key features. Thus it does not question the value systems within the artistic world or even the promotion of the art itself – as a way of informing the public about art and, indirectly, the wider world of art and art market with the hope of the artist’s financial success and launch of her career. This amount is actually not problematic at all, for the prices of artworks depend on the circumstances by they are formed: national reasons for purchase would be if, for example, the Austrians would sell us for such an amount the Princes’s Stone, which I am certain we would immediately buy. The economic reason would be the increase of the value of the artwork through a certain time period, where the difference between purchase and sale prices would represent profit. Hypothetically, the economic reason for purchase could also be if the state would be nationally minded enough about its national culture, and the difference in value would represent higher tax write-offs, if its author would decide to donate the work to a certain national or regional institution.
The fact that a young artist, fairly unknown in the art world, is selling her painting With your Perfume Impregnated, Half in Dream for a million and a bit does not guarantee the value of this painting will increase in the following years, and also does not have any basis in reality. The author wants the spectators, when looking at an “unknown work” and accompanied by a question if the participants in the project are even serious, to also set a question of how the value of personal and social values is assigned. The modern society, where every thing has its price, also includes human lives and, what is even more questionable, the human emotion into its value systems. The title of the painting therefore makes us question how we can set the material value to our values, for example, what is the proper insurance amount for death of a person, what kind of a financial award to give a child for his or her good work in school, how much is an injury of a worker or a patient worth, for how much one can offend a person or slander his or her good name …
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1There is not such thing as art there are just artists.
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www.slikazamilijon.eu---------
www.sloart.si----------www.myspace.com/parfum24 |
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ZOJA/ Dedicated to Universal Lover
2007 |
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| Ljubljana Castle, Castle Yard, 18.September-7.October 2007
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ZOJA
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Bachannal: A Faun teased by Children
2007 |
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| a painting is a part of Hommage a Gian Lorenzo Bernini opus/2007/ |
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Venice
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Red Space
2005 |
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| Final exhibition on Academy of Fine Arts and Design Ljubljana |
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Fornarina Eva
april 2008 |
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| etching on the right is based on the Rennaisance painter RAFFAELLO SANCIO´s painting FORNARINA, and it is a part of GRAPHIC BOOK called "BELATED DANCE WITH RAFFAELLO" realised by Barbara Eva Zavodnik for Kaus Centro Internazionale per l.incisione Artistica di Urbino in april 2008.
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Eva with Strawberries
2008 |
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| Belated Dance with Raffaello opus |
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Five till midnight
2009 |
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| Belated Dance with Raffaello opus/ autoportrait |
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Čaša opojnosti / Glass of Intoxication
2009 |
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| Belated Dance with Raffaello opus |
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V mesečini češnjevih cvetov/In the moonlight of cherry flowers
2009 |
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| Belated Dance with Raffaello opus/ autoportrait |
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V sebe me ujemi / Catch Me into Yourself
2009 |
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| Belated Dance with Raffaello opus |
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è troppo tardi per la verità e gli intimi sospiri /il cielo delle estati/ il cielo delle estati/ svègliami con il cubo di ghiaccio
2009 |
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| Belated Dance with Raffaello opus |
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I came in white
2009 |
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Stal si./ You stood
2009 |
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Somewhere between two bridges
2009 |
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Im left with your face
2009 |
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Survival in the calm
2009 |
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Im left with your face
2009 |
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Skrivnost/The Secret
2009 |
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I am watching you for quite some time
2009 |
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Zjutraj / in the Morning
2009 |
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David
2009 |
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Bambina afgana
2009 |
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Zoja
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| Education and biography | |
| 1994 • Studying at the Ljubljana Art Academy under Professor Marijan Gnamus, graduates in 2000 2000 • Frequent a two-year postgraduate course in print-making under Prossesor Branko Suhy and Professor Jožef Muhovic, finishes Master´s degree in 2003. 2000 • Training at the printmaking studio under Professor Miguel Angel Rios Palomares and Alfredo Bartolomeoli in Urbino (Italy). 2001 • Training at the printmaking studio under Professor Bruno Missieri, Alfredo Bartolomeoli and Rossano Guerra in Urbino (Italy). 2001 • Win a first prize for best portrait of the first slovenian film actress Ita Rina, chosen at a contest aimed at the students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. 2003 • Finished postgraduate course in print-making under Prossesor Branko Suhy and Professor Jožef Muhovic. 2004 • Training at the printmaking studio under Professor Bruno C. Bajardi and Alfredo Bartolomeoli in Urbino (Italy). 2006 • Win the first audience prize for the graphics Infinitas/ Art for Slovenian Enterprises, Hotel Mons, Ljubljana 2007 • Finish pedagogical - andragogical education at Faculty of Education, Ljubljana • Finish voluntary apprenticeship in arts at Elementary School, Smartno pod Smarno goro 2008 Finished postgraduating Master in Painting at Academy of FIne Arts and Design Ljubljana (Gustav Gnamus, Jozef Muhovic) SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2007 • Galerija Severia, One Million Euro and 24 Cent Painting, Koper • Bežigrajska galerija 1, Messsages, Objects - site specific installation, Ljubljana • Ljubljana Castle, Castle Yard, One Million Euro and 24 Cent Painting, Ljubljana • Kregarjev atrij, Zavod sv. Stanislav, Hommage à Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Sentvid pri Ljubljani • Finžgarjeva galerija, Installation of painting Bon Appetit 2006 • Coffe-House VIA ROMA, selected graphics from “To love. To kill. To be. To go. You.” opus, Ljubljana, Slovenija • Galerija Domzale, Barbara Eva Zavodnik, Domžale, Slovenija • Galerija Hest 35, To love. To kill. To be. To go. You., Ljubljana, Slovenija 2005 • Optika Felix, Intus-Extra, Ljubljana, Slovenija • Hotel Mons Ljubljana, Graphics & Painting, Ljubljana, Slovenija 2004 • Academy of Fine Arts, Retrospective exhibition, Ljubljana, Slovenija 2003 • Kud France Prešeren, Where I am and I´m not, Ljubljana, Slovenija 2002 • Galerija Beseda, Graphics and Paintings, Domžale, Slovenija GROUP EXHIBITIONS/SELECTION •2008 A THIRD LOOK - THE MULTIPLICITY OF GRAPHIC ART TODAY/ 11. september 2008 / International Centre of Graphic Arts / I exhibit 6 graphics from my opus TRANSITIO. 2007 • Breakfast at Ljubljanica river, Gornji trg, Ljubljana 2006 • Galerie Nord-Est, Expo de Noel, 2006, Strasbourg, France • International Art project STOLI/CHAIRS, Ice installation in Izola´s pier, Multimedia in Kerubin gallery, Izola • 7. Biennial of slovene Graphic Art Otočec, Novo Mesto, 2006 • Razstavišče Rotovž, Povezave-Connections, Maribor • Hotel Mons, Art for slovenian Enterprises, Ljubljana 2005 • Galerija ZDSLU, Ljubljana, Slovenija • Galerija Hest 35, Ljubljana, Slovenija • Mestna hisa Ljubljana, Scholarship student exhibition, Ljubljana, Slovenija • Galerija Miklova hiša Ribnica, 2.m, chosen authors of the second year of the MFA of Academy of Fine Arts In Ljubljana, Ribnica, Slovenija • Museo Civico di Sora, Premio Fibrenus - 19. edizione, Premio di incisione 2005, Archeologia industriale come memoria di uomini e luoghi, Carnello Carte ad arte, Carnello (Fr), Italija • Libreria Bocca & Galleria Riparte, Nerodiluce, Milano, Italija • Galeria Casa Matei Corvin, Nerodiluce, Cluj, Romunija • Finzgarjeva galerija, 8 Young Slovenian female Artists, Ljubljana, Slovenija 2004 • Galerija Hest, Christmas & New Year Auction, Ljubljana, Slovenija • Nerodiluce, La luce delle cavita e la restituzione dei riflessi. Travelling exhibition of unseen engravings with foreign artists. (Rovato Brescia, Bukarešta, Ljubljana, Barcelona, Napoli, Ortigia Siracusa ,Krakovo, Rocchetta al Volturno, Isernia, Urbino, Cremona) • Castello Morando Bolognini, Sant´Angelo Lodigiano, "Naturarte 2004", Opere grafiche di artisti dell'Europa orientale provenienti dall'archivio del Centro internazionale per l'incisione artistica di Urbino, Lodi, Italija • Jakopičeva galerija, Majski POP salon, Ljubljana, Slovenija 2003 • Premio Acqui, VI. Bienale internazionale per l´incisione, edizione 2002-2003, Acqui Terme, Ovada, Italija • Da Urbino a Lodi: Percorsi dell´incisione contemporanea, Lodi, Italija • Jakopičeva galerija, Neselekcionirano, Majski salon, Ljubljana, Slovenija • Ljubljanski grad, Dr(A-Ž)ba, Ljubljana, Slovenija 2002 • Centro cultural Ourense, I. Certamen de artes plasticas diputacion Ourense, Ourense, Španija • Ex monastero St. Chiara, Percorsi dell ´ incisione contemporanea, Urbino, Italija • Galerija Miklova hiša Ribnica, 2.S – Second Painting?, chosen authors of the second year of the MFA of Academy of Fine Arts In Ljubljana, Ribnica, Slovenija • Galerija ZDSLU, |
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