Sodobna umetnost (Aljoša Abrahamsberg),
16. oktober 2016
― One of Slovenia’s most important artists presents a selection of works from the 2014. 16 larger works on acrylic and jute are displayed. His whole cycle of repetitive motifs belongs somewhere between gestural abstraction and expressiveness. It splits and sinks into the surface, creating the path to places beyond the author's and our experience. The motives prevailing this time around are similar to the exhibition in the Bežigrad gallery 2 six years ago. They are mainly monochromatic, but using only red or blue. These paintings give rise to light and set the limits between here and beyond. The painted membrane separates the two from the place of birth and death of light. It splits and sinks into the surface, creating the path to places beyond the author's and our experience. Miloš Bašin curator Andraž Šalamun was born on 30 July 1947 in Ljubljana. In 1975 he graduated from the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. He was a member of the OHO group in the period 1968−1971. He lives in Koper. V Bežigrajski galeriji 2 so razstavljene tri serije likovnih podob iz leta 2014. V treh podolžnih slikah vidimo vodoravne prehode oblik, zelo sorodnih oblakom. Natančnejše opazovanje pokaže, da je vsak sklop združen s temnejšimi in svetlejšimi temnomodrimi oblikami, ki v posameznih tovrstnih delih tvorijo temni, a nikakor temačen del slikarske podobe. Forme na slikah izkazujejo stalno težnjo k prihajanju in odhajanju ter približevanju in združevanju. Pomenljivo se v eni izmed serij pokončnih modrih slik pojavljajo svetlejše modre in okrogle oblike. Prav ti stalni vizualni prehodi ob videvanju vseh treh serij umeščajo naš pogled v celosten svet mnogih v eni sami slikarski podobi. Likovna ustvarjalnost Andraža Šalamuna biva v središču sveta. Prav tam so vedno prisotni prizori, sekvence dogajanja, ki jih videva sam avtor. Oblike na njegovih slikarskih podobah same ponazarjajo stalno spremenljivost vsega. Ob zaporednem opazovanju slikarskih podob v posameznih serijah zaznamo, da so iste oblike