Marko Tušek: Observation 28 March–26 April 2025 artKIT
You are cordially invited to the opening of the solo exhibition Observation by the Slovenian artist, painter, designer and photographer Marko Tušek, which will take place on Friday, 28 March 2025, at 6 p.m. in the artKIT exhibition space.
Marko Tušek builds and creates works of art that have abandoned the canvas as a support for painting and have developed into a three-dimensional surface fullness of the painterly body. The gaze leads us to spatial traces of gold, while the bodies of the paintings captivate us with their visual vitality and the esthetic intensity of diverse relief marvels and compositional colorfulness of the elements.
The body of the painting is the most important building block for the concrete three-dimensional appearance of the painting. Starting from the formerly two-dimensional canvas, the body of the painting is structurally rearranged and layered on several levels. The artist circles around questions such as: What is painting today and what is contemporary painting. By exploring fundamental and borderline questions, he slowly and gradually evolves his art and painting, providing answers as we enter the visual interior of the painting.
Biography
Marko Tušek was born in Kranj on 23 August 1964. He grew up with his father, a painter, and attended the Secondary School of Design and Photography in Ljubljana. He then continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, graduating in 1988. He later studied in a two-year MA course with Prof. Metka Krašovec, which he did not complete.
His works can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, the IFC Washington, the Gorenjska Museum, etc., as well as in various private collections. His works were included in the overview exhibition Expanded Spaces of Art. Slovenian Art 1985–1995 at the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, the overview exhibition of paintings-objects in Slovenian art Beyond the Frame 1962-2004 at the Bežigrad Gallery 2, the Art Stays 2017 festival at the Art Factory and the group exhibition Structure of the Illusion at the Ptuj City Gallery.
His works have been discussed by Igor Zabel, Lilijana Stepančič, Lev Menaše, Tomislav Vignjević, Sarival Sosič, Nina Jeza, Tomaž Brejc, Aleksander Bassin, Damir Globočnik, Silvester Plotajs Sicoe, Anamarija Stibilj Šajn, Miloš Bašin and Doroteja Kotnik and included in their selections.
