The group exhibition Beyond the Academy brings an extensive cross-section of the work of four outstanding painters of the second half of the 20th century. centuries: Ilija Bashicevi Fakuta Bosilja, Sava Sekuli Fakuta, Matija Skurjenija and Joze Tisnikar, who represent within the wider region the peak of self-taught artistic production in the second half of the 20th century. century and are part of important international collections (Collection de l'art Brut (Lausanne), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Sammlung Zander (K Animulln), Museum of naive art Zagreb and others).
The setting opens up space for a new evaluation of their opuses: from fantasy inner worlds and mythologies to intimate, often dark universes and subtle symbolism that eludes unambiguous interpretation. The exhibition does not stop at the labels ‘naive’ or ‘self-taught’, but shows how the authors build complex visual systems that are simultaneously embedded in time and radically self-centered.
The exhibition is the result of a collaboration with the Museum of naivne i is the marginal of the art in the Jagodine (Serbia), Museum of Matija Skurjeni of Zaprešića (Croatia), and Is the art gallery of fine arts in Slovenj gradec of Graz, and the private collection of Zander in Cologne, Germany.
Photo: Joze Tisnikar, and then life went out, 1964, oil on paper. GBJ archive.
Skupinska razstava Onkraj akademije prinaša obsežen presek delovanja štirih izjemnih slikarjev druge polovice 20. stoletja: Ilije Bašičevića Bosilja , Save Sekulića , Matije Skurjenija in Jožeta Tisnikarja ki predstavljajo znotraj širše regije vrhunec umetniške produkcije samoukov v drugi polovici 20. stoletja in so del pomembnih mednarodnih zbirk (Collection de l’Art Brut (Lausanne), Centre Pompidou (Pariz), Sammlung Zander (Köln), Muzej naivne umetnosti Zagreb in drugi).
Postavitev odpira prostor za novo vrednotenje njihovih opusov: od fantazijskih notranjih svetov in mitologij do intimnih, pogosto temnih univerzumov ter pretanjene simbolike, ki se izmika enoznačnim razlagam. Razstava se ne ustavi pri oznakah ‘naivno’ ali ‘samouško’, temveč pokaže, kako avtorji gradijo kompleksne vizualne sisteme, ki so hkrati vpeti v čas in radikalno samosvoji.
Razstava je plod sodelovanja z Muzejem naivne i marginalne umetnosti iz Jagodine (Srbija), Muzejem Matija Skurjeni iz Zaprešića (Hrvaška), Koroško galerijo likovnih umetnosti iz Slovenj Gradca ter zasebno zbirko Zander iz Kölna (Nemčija).
Foto: Jože Tisnikar, In potem je ugasnilo življenje, 1964, olje na papir. Arhiv GBJ.