Marko Jakše: Close … Closer … Even Closer
Marko Jakše: Close … Closer … Even Closer
7 February–15 March 2025
MMC KIBLA/KiBela
You are cordially invited to the opening of the solo exhibition Close … Closer … Even Closer by Marko Jakše, which will take place on Friday, 7 February 2025, at 7 p.m. at the KiBela, space for art.
INVITATION (PDF)
A few words to the so-and-sos who believe
that “I paint dreams”.
I do not paint dreams.
I would not even dare to try
because I know I would fail …
It seems perfectly clear to me
that there is nothing crazier
than dreams and our reality.
Art lies somewhere in between.
An in-between between two spheres of “craziness”.
No work of art –
no matter how “wacky”, “crazy”,
“outlandish”, “offbeat” or “fictional” it may be –
can compete with the “madness of dreams and life”.
But I enjoy bringing images/figures/characters together, combining them … probably following
a similar key as subconsciousness does with all our thoughts, concepts, ideas, fears, desires,
impressions of past events and so on in our dreams. Time and time again I cannot wait for the
painting to surprise me –
when a figure appears on the canvas in front of me or something I was not expecting, something I
was not thinking about, appears “out of nowhere” (well, definitely not from my conscious mind!)
… as if the conscious part of me, my ego,
has nothing to do with it and is only acting as an observer here – just to marvel and wonder …
As long as it wonders and occasionally blurts out: “If we are alive, hooray!”, I know that I am still alive.
“Tweet, tweet!”
Yours sincerely, Maruha
Biography
Marko Jakše was born 1959 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1987. In 1993 he moved from the town to the country: he lives and works as a freelance artist in the hamlet of Mohorje, Slovenia. Jakše’s debut in Maribor took place in 1996 in Pekarna and at the Maribor Art Gallery (UGM). Two years later, his exhibition Nojeva barka / The Ostrich’s Ark laid the cornerstone for today’s KiBela Gallery. Since then, one could say that Maribor has become, as it were, a second hometown for Marko Jakše. Always a favorite in the eyes of both the crowd and the critics, this rebel »with a cause« fights the Establishment because he believes that the system impoverishes art and strips art of its basic postulate, which is freedom.
»The necessity for renewal is urgent, so much that it burns... and I’m as eager as hell! The day is fresh and shiny, the sun rays glimmering through the linden tree like crystals, the sun grinning straight at me ... I’m sorry, but this really isn’t a day to be spent in the studio, behind closed walls!«
< Marko Jakše: “WELCOME TO THE OCEAN … IT’S DEEP ENOUGH TO SINK YOUR DREAMS” Repetitor, Oil on canvas, 2023, 200 x 213 cm; photo: DK
MMC KIBLA/KiBela, Ulica kneza Koclja 9, Maribor
Opening hours: Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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