The exhibition of Dušan Zidar's work "Dorian - Dorian Grey" will be opened tomorrow evening in Podgorica, in the Contemporary Art Center of Montenegro, in the Klub gallery, at 20 p.m.
"The title of Dušan Zidar's exhibition indicates a complex metaphorical game of numerous meanings that constantly intertwine in the two-dimensional images incorporated into the composition of the exhibited spatial installation. The installation itself consists of three layers: frontally, digital images of insects on the windows; then a central, hanging composition of three large watercolors, painted on both sides of the format, with which smaller format digital graphics and subtle drawings of insects on Japanese - washi - paper are intertwined; while the last layer is a digital graphic with watercolor interventions placed on the gallery wall. This three-layering invites viewers to understand that the structure of reality is not linear , and reflects the artist's hypothesizing and flirting with the quantum structure of the world. The three-layer representation no longer allows for a safe phenomenological distance in relation to the void behind the picture, the mirror, the wall, which would ensure the transcendence of the content. The viewer is confronted with the idea that the picture of reality can actually be a continuous sequence of events which are transformed from one form to another, without a logical connection of cause and effect," says Spiro Mason about Zidar's work.
Dušan Zidar was born in 1962 in Ljubljana. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, at the department of sculpture, where he also completed post-graduate studies. He had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad. Since 2000, he has been working as a professor at the University of Maribor, Faculty of Education, Department of Fine Arts.
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