Saša Bezjak, Aleksandra Gruden, Polona Maher and Simona Šuc: Drawing Modules

The drawing radiates through the art works of three sculptors Saša Bezjak, Aleksandra Gruden and Polona Maher, and painter Simona Šuc. Drawing is a kind of module, a framework, a definition of the entrapment of material and linear freedom at the same time. It is established by the four authors in different art media, whether in embroidery, video, painting, two- or three-dimensional sculptures.

Through the use of the audio-visual medium, Aleksandra Gruden deals with space and lines of moving water, with the light sketching a variety of drawings as linear streams, stringing one image into another. In a recurrent medium, the linen-embroided drawings of Saša Bezjak preserve the straightforward, expressive, »frozen« but still very much living statements of a woman, integrated inside the agony of interpersonal human relationships. In the transparency of plexiglass, the traditional medium stresses the fragility and wholesomeness of Simona Šuc's line. Polona Maher uses cut-out polyurethane flat sculptures and 3D-structured crinolines to discreetly fill up the volume of the exhibition space, and, unlike the latter, strings tiny, simply animated drawings which give the impression of a sculpture through the minuscule image transformation flow and its density.

Regardless of the connecting link, each of them inhabits a separate world of expression, each translating it with a personal line poetics of their own, compressed in a unique artistic statement. Perfectly captured and perfectly free at the same time. Beautiful.

October 7th 2011 – October 19th 2011
Opening: October 7th 2011, 8pm
KiBela / KIBLA Maribor

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Supported by: EU-EACEA, Culture program, Brussels, Ministry of culture, Municipality of Maribor, Office of the Republic of Slovenia for Youth.