The Great-phic Art exhibition showcases a selection of the best works by student’s of the Master’s printmaking programme and the works created in undergraduate printmaking classes, which develop this medium in various technical and conceptual directions, with special reflection on its implications within the context of modern art. The exhibition provides a cross-section of specific explorations of the ability to understand today’s ever more complex reality, whose most prominent feature is its increasing elusiveness.
In the process, the participating artists do not engage in contemplative escapism, but quite the contrary. Even though it is counterproductive and unnecessary to seek shared thematic fronts in these types of cross-sections of a specific generation's creative work, a unique pursuit of the concrete may nonetheless be identified as a common theme in this exhibition. What the works displayed have in common is some sort of a cross-section of reality, or an X-ray of the skeleton of our present, which is interested in its material, spiritual, scientific, social or media substance. From direct interventions into the fabric of everyday life via interventions into the iconic imagery of our hybrid media landscape to visualisations of either structures of emotionality or affected corporeality, the works shown here are motivated by a desire for the concrete or by a phenomenological and almost scientific perspective. Even the featured abstract works are concrete, either in terms of their emphatic suggestivity that refers to the here and now, or in terms of the immediacy of their organic objects.
You will look in vain for clear, general statements about the present historical and political moment in the Great-phic Art. However, you will find a deepened curiosity, a keen eye, in which the objects of this probing view seem to become case studies of the world we live in. The Great-phic Art exhibition is therefore a type of a peculiar landscape, a cabinet of wonders and a domestic space at the same time, the meaning of which is nonetheless continually elusive.
Students: Špela Ambrož, Ana Govc, Petra Leskovar Grum, Vanesa Hochkraut, Hana Jelovšek, Ema Kobal, Klara Frančiška Kracina, Katarina Marov, Miha Majes, Klara Polajnar, Ana Marija Rauch, Valentin Radulović, Svitlana Ryabischuk, Yuen Sze Tsang
Mentors: Zora Stančič, Arjan Pregl, Andrej Kamnik, Leon Zuodar
Production: University of Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts and Design
MGBS Curator: Vladimir Vidmar
