YURI PFEIFER: RETURNED VIEWS
(portraits and self-portraits)
When? 6. 3.–4. 5. 2025
Where? Nikolaj Pirnat Exhibition Centre, GE Amaterkenegg Castle
Exhibition opening:
6. 3., at 18. uri
Exhibition tour:
7. 3.–30. 4.: every day from 9. to 17. hours
1. 5.–4. 5.: every day from 9. to 19. hours
Jurij Pfeifer's painting oeuvre presents itself in a retrospective review as extremely diverse and artistically versatile. In the eventful period of forty years of work, the author has approached painting in an intuitive and unencumbered manner; the range of his stylistic, art-historical impulses extends from gentle abstract, dreamily blurred landscapes and vedutas to extremely dark, almost genre interpretations of emotional states and fantasy raptures.
The adoption and fusion of different visual styles, methods of creation and iconography is in line with its versatility, which includes photography, furniture design, scenography, costume design and prose writing, in addition to the not insignificant illustration, graphic design, comics and art editing. Active transcending of the medium of painting and diligent integration into the local community thus results in an expanded artistic repertoire, which is locally marked, but still conveniently diverse and intimately poetic.
At the conceptual intersection of the personal poetics of Yuri Pfeifer and his loyalty to the Idrija scene, the present portraits of Painters, which the artist conceived and prepared before his death for the exhibition presented in the Idrija City Museum, entitled returned views, are also based.
The exhibition presents two dozen portraits, most of which were created between 2017 and 2020. Medium-sized formats, created in the oil-on-canvas technique, depict the author's acquaintances and good friends, and are also joined by self-portraits, portraits of animals and an expressive allegory of the month of April.
JURIJ PFEIFER: VRNJENI POGLEDI
(portreti in avtoportreti)
KDAJ? 6. 3.–4. 5. 2025
KJE? Razstavišče Nikolaja Pirnata, grad Gewerkenegg
Odprtje razstave:
6. 3., ob 18. uri
Ogled razstave:
7. 3.–30. 4.: vsak dan od 9. do 17. ure
1. 5.–4. 5.: vsak dan od 9. do 19. ure
Slikarski opus Jurija Pfeiferja se v retrospektivnem motrenju razdaja kot izredno raznolik in likovno vsestranski. V razgibanem obdobju štiridesetletnega delovanja je avtor k slikarstvu vsakič znova pristopal na intuitiven in neobremenjen način; razpon njegovih slogovnih, umetnostnozgodovinsko zaznamovanih vzgibov se vije vse od nežnih abstraktnih, sanjavo zabrisanih krajin in vedut do izjemno temačnih, skorajda žanrskih interpretacij čustvenih stanj in fantazijskih zamaknjenosti.
Prevzemanje in spajanje različnih vizualnih stilov, načinov ustvarjanja in ikonografije je namreč v sosledju z njegovo vsestranskostjo, ki poleg nezanemarljive ilustracije, grafičnega oblikovanja, stripa in likovnega urednikovanja vključuje tudi fotografijo, oblikovanje pohištva, scenografijo, kostumografijo in pisanje proznih besedil. Aktivno preseganje slikarskega medija in prizadevno vključevanje v lokalno skupnost tako rezultira v razširjenem umetniškem repertoarju, ki je sicer krajevno zaznamovan, a še vedno prikladno mnogovrsten in intimno poetičen.
Na konceptualno presečišče osebne poetike Jurija Pfeiferja in njegove zvestobe idrijski sceni se naslanjajo tudi pričujoči slikarski portreti, ki jih je umetnik pred smrtjo snoval in pripravljal prav za dotično, v idrijskem Mestnem muzeju predstavljeno razstavo, naslovljeno Vrnjeni pogledi.
Na razstavi sta predstavljena dva ducata portretov, večina katerih je nastala med letoma 2017 in 2020. Na srednje velikih formatih, ustvarjenih v tehniki olja na platnu, so upodobljeni avtorjevi znanci in dobri prijatelji, pridružujejo pa se jim tudi avtoportreti, portreti živali in ekspresivna alegorija meseca aprila.
