Andrej Brumen Čop
Nove Slike
Ničvredni sin
Galerija Kresija / Kresija Gallery, Stritarjeva 6, Ljubljana
11.8. – 6.9.2009
Kustos razstave / Curated by: Jernej Škof
Otroška razigranost, otroška zloba, otroška naivnost, otroška svoboda. Na poti vračanja v preteklost in iskanja smisla svojih dejanj in napak se ustavimo ob ogledalu lastne strasti in sramu. Začutimo, da je potrebno zaključiti in opustiti del naše osebnosti, ki se je skrhala v toku časa in misli. V trenutku refleksije se razpne fantastična pokrajina minulega in prikažejo se pošasti, ki smo jih skrivali na poljih mentalne pozabe. Na teh poljanah vladajo otroške figure in temne zamegljene podobe.
Tako pokrajino razkriva pričujoča razstava. Skozi različne podobe, spomine in osebe se sprehodimo od trenutkov sreče in otroške naivnosti do besne ekstaze in sramu. Nekatere podobe, ki jih srečujemo, se zadovoljno smehljajo, nekatere spijo v trdnem spancu, spet druge kričijo v nemem kriku. Zdi se, kot da tukaj, na tem odpadu psihe in spomina, živijo vse naše matere, očetje in ljubimci. V ta svet smo zaprli vse barve tega sveta, da bi lahko živeli med stenami vsakdanjosti.
Če pa želimo te stene zrušiti, moramo vse te podobe iz sveta senc oživeti in se z njimi soočiti. V trenutku doživimo cel spekter dogodkov in čustev. Ničvrednost, bes, ljubezen, utrujenost, žalost in veselje. Razgalimo samega sebe v uničujočem viharju, dokler ne zadihamo v nov trenutek praznine. Morda se temu lahko reče smrt, morda nov začetek. Morda pa je to samo nova slika. In še ena podoba.
Jernej Škof
Andrej Brumen Čop (1967, Maribor) je leta 1995 končal študij slikarstva in slikarsko specialko na ljubljanski Akademiji za likovno umetnost in oblikovanje. Leta 1997 je študiral slikarstvo kot gostujoči študent na praški likovni akademiji, leta 2000 je bival kot štipendist Ministrstva za kulturo v newyorškem ateljeju in letos, 2009, v berlinskem ateljeju Ministrstva za kulturo RS. Živi in dela v Ljubljani kot samozaposlen na področju kulture. Svoje delo je predstavil na številnih samostojnih in skupinskih razstavah v Sloveniji in v tujini.
Jernej Škof ( 1983, Ljubljana) je absolvent Fakultete za družbene vede – Kulturologija. Leta 2005 je režiral in igral v predstavi Skrito: Spol, v prevodu Suzane Tratnik. Leta 2007 je sodeloval z Društvom ŠKUC na različnih projektih, koordinacija festivala Dobimo se pred Škucem 2007, 2008 in 2009. Leta 2008 je sodeloval pri Svetu umetnosti Zavoda SCCA – Ljubljana kot so-kustos razstave Mircea Nicolae – Google Tourist v galeriji Alkatraz. Istega leta je kuriral razstavo Artivizem v klubih Tiffany in Monokel. Leta 2009 je kuriral razstavo Miss May: Carneval 23 v Klubu Tiffany in arhivsko razstavo 25. let homo gibanja. Aprila 2009 je sodeloval pri ustanovitvi Kulturnega centra Q v okviru AKC Metelkova, kjer deluje kot so-programski vodja.
Razstavo sta podprlo Ministrstvo za kulturo RS in Zavod Pink Klip
Andrej Brumen Čop
New Paintings
Worthless Son
Kresija Gallery, Stritarjeva 6, Ljubljana
11.8. – 6.9.2009
Curated by: Jernej Škof
Child’s playfulness, child’s malice, child’s innocence, child’s freedom. On the journey back to the past as we’re looking for sense of our acts and mistakes, we stop to gaze at the mirror of our own passion and shame. We feel a part of our personality, blunted by time and thought, must come to conclusion and be abandoned. In this moment of reflection fantastic landscape of the past spans over and demons arise, demons we hided in the fields of mental oblivion. Child’s figures and dark blurred images dominate these fields.
Present exhibition reveals such landscape. Through various images, memoirs and people we pass from moments of happiness and child’s naivety to moments of furious ecstasy and shame. Some images we encounter are happily smiling, some sleep in solid sleep, others are screaming in silence. It seems like it is here, in this junkyard of psyche and memory all our mothers, fathers and lovers reside. In that world we’ve captured all the colors of the world so we could live between the walls of everyday life.
Wishing to break down the walls we must revive all these images from the world of shadows and face it. Instantly we are overwhelmed by spectrum of events and emotions. Worthlessness, anger, love, exhaustion, sorrow and joy. We expose ourselves to a destroying storm, till we breathe in the new moment of emptiness. You may call it death, maybe a new beginning. Maybe it is a new painting. And yet another image.
Jernej Škof
Andrej Brumen Čop (1967, Maribor) obtained BA and MA at Ljubljana Academy of fine arts in 1995. Two years later in 1997 he studied fine arts in Prague Academy of fine arts. In 2000 he won scholarship of Slovene ministry for culture to live and work in its New York atelier, and in this year 2009 in its Berlin atelier. He lives and works in Ljubljana as a free-lance artist. His work was presented in numerous individual and group exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad.
Jernej Škof (1983, Ljubljana) is graduate of cultural sciences at Ljubljana University. In 2005 he directed and preformed in the play Hidden: Sex. In 2007 he begun his cooperation with ŠKUC, where he worked on various projects, such as Festival Dobimo se pred Škucem in 2007, 2008 and 2009. In 2008 he worked with World of Art of SCCA, Ljubljana, where he co-curated Mircea Nicolae’s exhibition Google Tourist at Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana. In the same year he curated exhibition Artivism at clubs Tiffany and Monokel. This year 2009 he curated exhibition Miss May: Carneval 23 at club Tiffany and archive exhibition 25 years of homo movement. In April 2009 he took part in establishing Q Culture center as a part of AKC Metelkova, where he works as program co-manager.
Exhibition is supported by Slovene Ministry of Culture and Pink Klip Institut
