The graphic artist and master of Arts Svetlana Yakimovska Rodi FC (1965, Kumanovo, North Macedonia) presents in a solo exhibition a series of monotypes and installations in which she uses the bark of trees attacked by lubadar as a matrix. The traces of bark beetles are at the same time traces of the destruction of the life of trees and the birth of another life of a species, which is easily overlooked by humans due to its small size and from our perception of inferiority. The author's interest in" graphic " traces of the life cycle of bark beetles stems from the research of the reasons for the increased number of (invasive) insects, as a result of human irrational interference with nature, unstructured reforestation of monocultures at lower altitudes and climatic changes.
The artist's varied visually interesting patterns and traces of insect engravings aroused the interest that she used them for the production of her graphic works, thereby showing the system of exploitation of nature paradoxically and with ironic self-analysis also directly, as she "exploited" them and transformed them into the structure of an artifact. She combined prints on paper strips with interlacing and pasting into larger graphic installations, which she combined into a comprehensive layout in the lapidary rooms of the Bozidar Jakac Gallery.
Curator: Kristina T. Simoncic
Photo: Marusa Lapuh
Grafičarka in magistra umetnosti Svetlana Jakimovska Rodić (1965, Kumanovo, Severna Makedonija) na samostojni razstavi predstavlja serijo monotipij in instalacij, pri katerih za matrico uporablja lubje dreves, ki ga je napadel lubadar. Sledi lubadarjev so hkrati sledi uničenja življenja dreves in rojstva drugega življenja vrste, katero ljudje zaradi njene majhnosti in iz naše percepcije inferiornosti enostavno spregledamo. Avtoričino zanimanje za »grafične« sledi življenjskega cikla lubadarjev (zalubnikov) izhaja iz raziskovanja razlogov za povečano število (invazivnih) žuželk, kot posledice človekovega neracionalnega poseganja v naravo, nestrukturiranega pogozdovanja monokultur na nižjih nadmorskih višinah in klimatskih sprememb.
Umetnici so razgibani vizualno zanimivi vzorci in sledi gravur žuželk vzbudili zanimanje, da jih je uporabila za izdelavo svojih grafičnih del, s čimer je sistem izkoriščanja narave paradoksalno in z ironično samoanalizo prikazala tudi neposredno, saj jih je »izkoristila« in jih transformirala v zgradbo artefakta. Odtise na papirnatih trakovih je s prepletanjem in lepljenjem združila v večje grafične instalacije, ki jih je v prostorih Lapidarija Galerije Božidar Jakac združila v celovito postavitev.
Kustosinja: Kristina T. Simončič
Foto: Maruša Lapuh
