Boštjan Jurečič: Paintings

Boštjan Jurečič: Paintings
4–24 June 2021
KiBela / MMC KIBLA

You are welcome to Boštjan Jurečič's solo exhibition Paintings, which will be on view from Friday, 4 June 2021.

INVITATION (PDF)
ABOUT EXHIBITION (PDF)
EXHIBITED ARTWORKS (PDF)

In the KiBela artspace, the artist exhibits large-format paintings created after 2014. His works are characterized by a painting technique; the rinsing of acrylic paints off the canvas. In short, it is a process in which Jurečič first paints the subject, waits for it to dry slightly, and then rinses it off with water, leaving only the stains. He continues the process to the point where those stains result in a new creation. You could call it a painting by rinsing. As a painter, Jurečič is primarily interested in the figure, the figure in space. He never paints anything by heart: even a possible/potential white square on his canvas derives from an external source - perhaps from one of the found photographs. The artist collects his motifs from a wide field of contemporary visual culture, as he often uses photographic material from magazines and newspapers as the template.

Boštjan Jurečič, born in 1969 in Ljubljana, graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana in 1991 and then studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1998 with Professor Gustav Gnamuš. He works as a journalist in the Editorial Board of the Broadcasts on Culture at TV Slovenia. In his painting practice he explores a wide field of contemporary figurative art. Since the turn of the millennium he has exhibited regularly in Slovenia and abroad.

Admission is free. Please, follow the recommendations of the NIJZ/NIPH while visiting.

Boštjan Jurečič, Vanity, 2017, acrylic on canvas, two parts, 220 x 320 cm in total. Photo: Luka Dekleva.

MMC KIBLA / KiBela Art Space, Ulica kneza Koclja 9, Maribor
Opening hours: Monday–Friday: 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Saturday: 10 a.m.–2 p.m.