The guest exhibition of the Loka Museum of the bishop of Loka presents works of art by five authors who are engaged in exploring the dynamic relationship between man and machine and within it with questions about the role and importance of work and the worker in modern society. In different ways, they touch in particular the field of industry, where this relationship has been most defined in the past.
The mentioned theme has already marked many periods of art in the past-especially the time of the historical avant-gardes. Today it is again at the forefront of the interest of many authors. Indeed, the world has advanced more and more in its technological development, with New, developed forms of machines, it is becoming more and more robotized and digitized. At the same time, it is also marked by the consequences of the recent global economic crisis.
Many old and new questions and dilemmas arise, which are raised through their works of art also by the authors at the exhibition. They think about the pitfalls and benefits of progress. About the crisis of values of a society that, in the name of development, increasingly craves quick profits and capital, exploiting and impoverishing the worker. They question the consequences of the fact that the machine is no longer just a human tool at work, but is increasingly becoming a substitute, an invention that pushes its creator out of the work process, which threatens man's earnings and thus his livelihood. They also talk about the successful stories of" cooperation " between man and machine and the importance of preserving the memory of past achievements of technological development, which are now called industrial heritage.
Artists: Metod Frlic, Tomaz Furlan, Sanela Jahi/, Alexij Kobal, Antonio Zhivkovic
Curator: Barbara Sterle Vurnik
Photo: Tomaz Grdin, GBJ archive
Gostujoča razstava Loškega muzeja Škofja Loka predstavlja umetniška dela petih avtorjev, ki se ukvarjajo z raziskovanjem dinamičnega razmerja med človekom in strojem in znotraj tega z vprašanji o vlogi in pomenu dela ter delavca v sodobni družbi. Na različne načine se dotikajo zlasti polja industrije, kjer se je to razmerje v preteklosti najbolj definiralo.
Omenjena tema je v preteklosti že zaznamovala marsikatero obdobje umetnosti – zlasti čas zgodovinskih avantgard. Danes je ponovno v ospredju zanimanja mnogih avtorjev. Svet je namreč v svojem tehnološkem razvoju vse bolj napredoval, z novimi, razvitimi oblikami strojev postaja vse bolj robotiziran in digitaliziran. Hkrati je zaznamovan tudi s posledicami nedavne globalne gospodarske krize.
Porajajo se mnoga stara in nova vprašanja ter dileme, ki jih razpirajo skozi svoja umetniška dela tudi avtorji na razstavi. Razmišljajo o pasteh in prednostih napredka. O krizi vrednot družbe, ki v imenu razvoja vse bolj hlepi po hitrem dobičku in kapitalu ter izkorišča in siromaši delavca. Sprašujejo se o posledicah dejstva, da stroj ni več le človekov pripomoček pri delu, ampak postaja vse bolj nadomestek, izum, ki iz delovnega procesa izrinja njegovega stvaritelja, kar ogroža zaslužek človeka in s tem njegovo preživetje. Spregovorijo pa tudi o uspešnih zgodbah »sodelovanja« med človekom in strojem ter o pomenu ohranjanja spomina na pretekle dosežke tehnološkega razvoja, ki jim danes rečemo industrijska dediščina.
Umetniki: Metod Frlic, Tomaž Furlan, Sanela Jahić, Aleksij Kobal, Antonio Živkovič
Kustosinja: Barbara Sterle Vurnik
Foto: Tomaž Grdin, arhiv GBJ
