The exhibition entitled I Made this* presents the spatial works of Thomas Furlan, sculptor and multi-media artist, who in his artistic practice often addresses the complex relationship of man to his own environment and to his everyday banalities. In his newer and completely new production, Furlan created a series of objects through which he directly, materially and autoreflectively addresses the social dynamics between the so-called civilized society and its most ordinary gadgets. In the former monastery church, he puts on display a series of sculptures, installations and spatial interventions based on robust materials such as Stone, terazzo concrete, marble and wood.
The artistic practice of Thomas Furlan is deeply intertwined with a humorous and ironic attitude to situations that an individual is faced with in his daily life and is forced to solve in the spirit of the times according to the key of optimal efficiency. Since 2005, he has been continuously building a series of absurd machines, the Amaktear, where sculptural objects have been used as body extensions and stage elements in video performances. His sculptures or installations call into question a society of imminent effectiveness, where there is no place for useless things that have no practical and potentially monetary value. In his more recent works of art, Furlan continues with such considerations. As part of this exhibition, he refers to the ubiquitous idea of "Common Sense", which is supposed to be a criterion for rationality and efficiency, and therefore presents seemingly trivial objects that (perhaps unconsciously) shape human lives. In his characteristic style, interspersed with an overflowing measure of self-irony and distance from his own position, he highlights the absurdity of the objects he created and the ideas they represent. These seemingly everyday and domestic objects, however, can ultimately only be understood as (useless) works of art due to their questionable functionality.
Curator: Miha Colner
Photo: Jaka Babnik
Razstava z naslovom I Made This* predstavlja prostorska dela Tomaža Furlana, kiparja in večmedijskega umetnika, ki v svoji umetniški praksi pogosto naslavlja kompleksen odnos človeka do lastnega okolja in do njegovih vsakodnevnih banalnosti. V svoji novejši in povsem novi produkciji je Furlan ustvaril serijo objektov, s pomočjo katerih neposredno, materialno in avtoreflektivno obravnava družbene dinamike med tako imenovano civilizirano družbo in njenimi najbolj običajnimi pripomočki. V nekdanji samostanski cerkvi na ogled postavlja serijo, kipov, instalacij in prostorskih intervencij, ki temeljijo na robustnih materialih kot so kamen, terazzo beton, marmor in les.
Umetniška praksa Tomaža Furlana je globoko prepredena s humornim in ironičnim odnosom do situacij, s katerimi je posameznik soočen v svojem vsakdanu in jih je v duhu časa primoran reševati po ključu optimalne učinkovitosti. Od leta 2005 je kontinuirano gradil serijo absurdnih strojev Wear, kjer so bili kiparski objekti uporabljeni kot podaljški telesa in scenski elementi v video performansih. Njegovi kipi oziroma instalacije pod vprašaj postavljajo družbo neizbežne efektivnosti, kjer ni prostora za neuporabne stvari, ki nimajo praktične in potencialno monetarne vrednosti. V svojih novejših umetniških delih Furlan nadaljuje s tovrstnimi premisleki. V sklopu pričujoče razstave se navezuje na vseprisotno idejo »zdrave pameti«, ki naj bi bila merilo za racionalnost in učinkovitost, zato predstavlja na videz trivialne predmete, ki (morda nezavedno) krojijo človeška življenja. V svojem značilnem slogu, prepredenem z zvrhano mero samoironije in distance do lastnega položaja, izpostavlja absurdnost objektov, ki jih je ustvaril, in idej, ki jih le-te predstavljajo. Ti na videz vsakdanji in domačni objekti pa so lahko zaradi svoje vprašljive funkcionalnosti nenazadnje razumljeni le kot (neuporabna) umetniška dela.
Kustos: Miha Colner
Foto: Jaka Babnik
