Marijan Mirt: The Abduction of Europa

Marijan Mirt: The Abduction of Europa
5 May–3 June 2023
MMC KIBLA / KiBela

We are pleased to invite you to the opening of Marijan Mirt’s retrospective exhibition entitled The Abduction of Europa, which will take place on Friday, 5 May 2023, at 7 p.m. in KiBela, space for art.

INVITATION (PDF)
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION (PDF)

The visual language of this year's recipient of the Glazer Award of the City of Maribor is unique and recognizable, it looks at the present with traditional methods, cites ancient art, combines traditional techniques and materials of visual art with contemporary ones, reflects reality in the face of social and existential circumstances, thematizes and often brings irony to current events, thus announcing the future of mankind, which of course depends on its own actions. Mirt artistically encodes the state of the world, especially that of humans, highlighting the anthropological and psychological dimensions, often bringing them together in images of animals, hybrids, perhaps clones as it corresponds to his perceptions and insights.

Marijan Mirt was born in 1975 in Zagreb. He graduated from the High School of Applied Art and Design in Zagreb, majoring in sculpture. In 1999, he obtained his master's degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, with professors Miro Vuc and Robert Emil Tanay. In 2000, he moved to Maribor. He is the author of several public sculptures at home and abroad. He has prepared more than twenty solo exhibitions and many group exhibitions. He is a member of DLUM, ZDSLU and ULUPUH. He exhibits independently and in a group at home and abroad. He has received many awards and recognitions, including the Rihard Jakopič Award in 2020 and in 2023 the Glazer Charter, the gold medal for sculpture at the Salon des Beaux Arts du Carrousel, Louvre 2017 and the DLUM award four times in 2013, 2017, 2018 and 2019; Artfarers 2012, Athens; Penza Symposium 2009 and 2010, Russia, etc. He works with sculpture, painting, computer design, photography and art pedagogy. He lives and creates in Maribor.

https://www.mirt.si/

< Marijan Mirt, The Abduction of Europa, 2022, mixed technique. Photo: Damjan Švarc.

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