The exhibition presents a project artistic collaboration between painters Anja Jercic Jakob and Mateja Kavacic. In their artistic creation there are obvious intersections and interweaving both on the substantive as well as on the material, material plane.
Interlace
The experimental exhibition is an insight into the artistic production of Anja Jercic Jakob and Mateja Kavacic. In their current artistic practicum, intersections and interweaving are evident both on the substantive level and in the material substance itself. The material starting points from which they build their works are diverse, in some works from painting, in others from material substance. As for the latter, we can highlight the use or re-use of a living or dead plant, which is present in both, but otherwise in different time periods of creation.
Their painting or drawing works are based not only on the desire to imitate the appearance of nature, but also on the mimesis of processes or processes that build or decompose in nature (overlapping, pouring, decomposition, dripping, randomness...). In the last period, Anja has been prominent in painting matter, Mateja (so)works mainly with natural materials of organic origin, but both build the image with related ways. Anja weaves and interweaves strokes with painting material, Mateja weaves vegetation. Both build formations that act on the viewer organically, as if randomly. But nevertheless, these are mainly very controlled, with cultured swiping, formed formations.
The exhibition at the Kocka Gallery (Janez Trdina Cultural Centre) was co-produced by DLUD and The Novo mesto Institute.
Razstava predstavlja projektno umetniško sodelovanje med slikarkama Anjo Jerčič Jakob in Matejo Kavčič. V njunem likovnem ustvarjanju so očitna presečišča in prepleti tako na vsebinski kot tudi na snovni, materialni ravni.
Prepletati
Eksperimentalna razstava je vpogled v umetniško produkcijo Anje Jerčič Jakob in Mateje Kavčič. V njunem dosedanjem likovnem praktikumu so presečišča in prepleti tako na vsebinski ravni kot tudi v sami materialni snovnosti, očitni. Materialna izhodišča, iz katerih gradita svoja dela, so raznorodna, pri nekaterih delih iz slikarske, pri drugih iz stvarne snovnosti. Kar se slednje tiče, lahko izpostavimo rabo ali re-uporabo žive ali mrtve rastline, ki je prisotna pri obeh, a sicer v različnih časovnih obdobjih ustvarjanja.
Njuna slikarska ali risarska dela ne temeljijo zgolj na želji po posnemanju izgleda narave, temveč tudi na mimezi postopkov oziroma procesov, ki gradijo ali razgrajujejo v naravi (prekrivanje, polivanje, razkrajanje, kapljanje, naključnost…). V zadnjem obdobju je Anja izrazito v slikarski snovi, Mateja (so)deluje predvsem z naravnimi materiali organskega izvora, a obe gradita podobo s sorodnimi načini. Anja spleta in prepleta poteze s slikarsko snovjo, Mateja spleta rastlinje. Obe gradita tvorbe, ki na gledalca delujejo organsko, kot da naključno. A kljub temu gre predvsem za zelo nadzorovane, s kultiviranim potezanjem, nastale tvorbe.
Razstava v Galeriji Kocka (Kulturni center Janeza Trdine) je nastala v koprodukciji DLUD in Zavoda Novo mesto.