Stas Kleindienst presents paintings of the last creative period at the exhibition Antiarcadia, among them the first exhibited works. He upgraded the Opus for the exhibition in the church with an intervention, a mural that connects the opus and adds an extra dimension to the exhibition. The exhibition could hardly have come at a more opportune time, because (hopefully) we are closing the chapter of a pandemic that has completely frozen the world for two years, changed our habits and relationships and shook ideas about ‘normality’. One can identify with depictions of urban ruins, time capsules of an unlived past, and frozen moments of human confusion, listlessness, and submissiveness. Dystopian landscapes and what is happening in Kleindienst's works suddenly seem to us unusually close, almost everyday.
Stas Kleindienst graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and design in Ljubljana in 2007, and received his master's degree there in 2009. His works are included in several private and public collections. In 2014 he received the OHO award and in 2018 curated an exhibition of students entitled 12 reasons to paint at the SKUC gallery. In 2019, the University of Ljubljana awarded him the recognition of important works of art. He lives and works in Vipava.
Curator: Asta Bag
Photo: Jaka Babnik
Staš Kleindienst na razstavi Antiarkadija predstavlja slikarska dela zadnjega ustvarjalnega obdobja, med njimi tudi prvič razstavljena dela. Opus je za razstavo v cerkvi nadgradil z intervencijo, muralom, ki povezuje opus in doda razstavi dodatno razsežnost. Razstava bi težko prišla v bolj primernem času, saj (upajmo) zaključujemo poglavje pandemije, ki je za dve leti povsem zamrznila svet, spremenila naše navade in odnose ter zamajala predstave o ‘normalnosti’. Lahko se poistovetimo z upodobitvami urbanih ruševin, časovnih kapsul neizživete preteklosti in zamrznjenih trenutkov človeške zmede, brezvoljnosti in submisivnosti. Distopične krajine in dogajanje na Kleindienstovih delih se nam nenadoma zdijo nenavadno blizu, skorajda vsakdanje.
Staš Kleindienst je leta 2007 diplomiral na Akademiji za likovno umetnost in oblikovanje v Ljubljani, prav tam je leta 2009 tudi magistriral. Njegova dela so vključena v več zasebnih in javnih zbirk. Leta 2014 je prejel nagrado skupine OHO ter med drugim leta 2018 kuriral razstavo študentov z naslovom 12 razlogov za slikanje v galeriji ŠKUC. Leta 2019 mu je Univerza v Ljubljani podelila Priznanje pomembnih umetniških del. Živi in dela v Vipavi.
Kustosinja: Asta Vrečko
Foto: Jaka Babnik
