TRIGLAV: CONTROVERSIES and PROBLEMS regarding TRIGLAVA
After 1968 a certain provocative controversy is at work in contemporary Slovene arts. This experimental, retro-avant-garde and artivistic artistic-political controversy seemingly refers to the famed happening of the group OHO (Milenko Matanovic, David Nez, Drago Dellabernardina) Triglav, which took place on 30 December 1968 in Ljubljana's Zvezda (Star) Park, and on the recyclings or reconstructions of that happening which were made first by the group Irwin (Andrej Savski, Borut Vogelnik, Roman Uranjek) Svoji k svojim/Gora Triglav (Like to Like/Mount Triglav) in 2004 in Zvezda Park, and later, by the artists Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša – Triglav na Triglavu (Triglav on Triglav) on 6 August 2007 on Slovenia's Mount Triglav. In the frame of an experimental artistic situation the three performances only seemingly metaphorize the geographic, national and state symbol of Slovenia: Mount Triglav. All of the works are the most radical executions of the politically sliding sign, that is, individual explanations of symptoms of Slovene identity and, more importantly, the historical construction and realization of political identities.
os artistas
Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša
Triglav
OHO, Irwin, Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša
NOEMA. Digital Art, www.noema.art.br
15 October– 15 November 2007
Exhibition Curator:
Zdenka Badovinac
Text:
Misko Suvakovic
A paralel exhibition will run in First Life at the Mala galerija – Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenska cesta 35, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija, www.mg-lj.si
Production:
Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, www.aksioma.org
Executive producer:
Marcela Okretic
Co-production:
Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, www.mg-lj.si
Maska, institute for publishing, production and education, Ljubljana,
www.maska.si
NOEMA. Digital Art, www.noema.art.br
Zavod Masa, Ljubljana
The project has been supported by
the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, www.mk.gov.si
the Municipality of Ljubljana, www.ljubljana.si
the European Cultural Foundation, www.eurocult.org