Published by: Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E.
b&w,number of copies: 60

“I am in the flow and I respond to the flow. That is my basic practice that collaterally produces durable things, objects or drawings (on paper, in newspapers, as newspapers, as video projections, in notebooks or at the National Technical Library in Prague). From time to time, I lay down my repertoire somewhere, somehow. But the great show passes with me. I am its sole director and actor.”
Dan Perjovschi

Dan Perjovschi, Temporary Yours (1995-2012), 2012
bw offset print, hard cover, 23 x 16 cm
price: 10 EUR
Pubished by: Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. (SLO), Idea Editura (RO)

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4. 4. – 18. 4. 2013
Otvoritev razstave: četrtek, 4. 4. 2013 ob 19.00 uri, KAPSULA

RONE 84 se vrača v KAPSULO z drugo samostojno razstavo. Njegov nov projekt “5 POINTS ILUMINATI” nadaljuje z divjim spustom po centrifugi popularne/potrošne kulture, citatologijo in maničnima čečkanjem.

Na križišču street arta, grafiti slikarstva in stensilov – dobro začinjeno z angleškim in ameriškim pop artom, bitniško kulturo in ameriškim undergroundom –
vedno znova preseneča z reciklažnimi strategijami in širino referenc iz popularne kulture in zgodovine umetnosti. Dobro se počuti na ulici, zadnja leta mu postaja udobno tudi v galerijskih razstaviščih.

Vabljeni!

Program Zavoda P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. podpirata Ministrstvo za izobraževanje, znanost, kulturo in šport in MOL, Oddelek za kulturo.

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Trg prekomorskih brigad 1, 1000 Ljubljana
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Vabljeni na pogovor o zmagovalnih knjigah umetnikov iz galerije Gagosian, New York v četrtek, 14. 03. 2013 ob 19.00 uri v KAPSULO.

Dejan Habicht, One Gasoline Station, 2010

Prvi „Dolgi četrtek“ bo posvečen izjemnemu dosežku domačih umetnikov in Zavoda P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. – sodelovanje na razstavi „ Ed Ruscha, Books & Co.“, ki so jo pred kratkim odprli v slavni Gagosian Gallery v New Yorku. Iza Pevec, študentka umetnostne zgodovine in primerjalne književnosti, ki se v svoji diplomski nalogi posveča knjigi umetnika bo predstavila „ruschevske“ knjige umetnika Dejana Habichta, Tanje Lažetić, Tadeja Pogačarja. Število mest je omejeno.
Vabljeni!
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NOVICE

Zelo uspešni delavnici knjige umjetnika v Galeriji Murska Sobota

Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. je pred tedni uspešno izvedel dve javni delavnici knjige umetnika v Galeriji Murska Sobota. Delavnici, ki sta potekali v torek 19. 2. 2013 in sredo 20. 2.2013 sta bili odlično obiskani, na njih pa je tokrat sodelovala skupina starejših občank in občanov U3.
Delavnici sta se odlično vklopili v kontekst aktualne razstave Galerije Murska Sobota „Od strani do prostora“, ki gosti dela iz zbirke knjig umetnika v Wesserburgu in Zbirke publikacij umetnikov Seealves Foundation – Muzeja sodobne umetnosti iz Porta, Portugalske. Delavnica je potekala v okviru programskega sklopa „Seminar knjige umetnika“.

Sodelovanje na razstavi LAVORO-WORK-VORO v Udinah

Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. sodeluje na razstavi Lavoro-Work-Vore (2.3.-31.3.20139 v Villa di Toppo Florio, ki jo je pripravil kustos Paolo Toffolutti. Razstava tematizira področje dela, delavskih pravic, mobilnosti, globalizacije ipd., na njej pa sodelujejo umetniki iz Španije, Italije, Kanade, Slovenije, Mehike, Albanije, Nemčije idr. Na razstavi je predstavljenih več kot 130 del.
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Program Zavoda P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. podpirata Ministrstvo za izobraževanje, znanost, kulturo in šport in MOL, Oddelek za kulturo.

Kontakt:
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V torek, 5. marca 2013 odpirajo v prestižni galeriji Gagosian, na aveniji Madison v New Yorku razstavo “Ed Ruscha, Books & Co.” Razstava bo na ogled do 27. aprila 2013 in prinaša izbor 91 knjig umetnika, ki so nastale kot referenca na delo ameriškega umetnika Eda Rusche. V šestdesetih in sedemdesetih letih dvajsetega stoletja je Ed Ruscha izdal serije malih fotografskih konceptualnih knjig umetnika, ki so kasneje postale izredno popularne. V zadnjih tridesetih letih je nastalo okoli sto novih knjig umetnika, ki so nastale kot poklon, komentar ali parafraza Ruschevih.

Ob otvoritvi razstave znana ameriška založba MIT Press iz Cambridga, napoveduje še izid knjige Various Small Books: Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha. Knjiga Various small books na skoraj 300 straneh 91 knjig umetnika – vsako predstavljeno z naslovnico in kratkim opisom. Knjigo so uredili Jeff Brouws, Wendy Burton in Hermann Zschiegner, besedilo sta prispevala Phil Taylor in Mark
Rawlinson.
Med razstavljalci v galeriji Gagosian in predstavljenimi avtorji v knjigi so tudi trije slovenski umetniki – Dejan Habicht (s knjigo umetnika One Gasoline Station), Tanja Lažetić (s knjigama Coloured People in Black and White (Yellow) in Nine Swimming Pools behind a Broken Glass) in Tadej Pogačar (s knjigo umetnika Various (Small) Pieces of Trash). Naštete knjige umetnika so izšle v letu 2010 v samozaložbi oz. v založništvu Zavoda P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E.
Nekaj izvodov teh izjemnih knjig umetnika je na voljo v KAPSULI – edini specializirani knjigarni publikacij in knjig umetnika v Sloveniji.
KAPSULA, Trg prekomorskih brigad , 1000 Ljubljana

Program Zavoda P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. podpirata Ministrstvo za izobraževanje, znanost, kulturo in šport in MOL, Oddelek za kulturo.

Kontakt:
Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E.
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Exhibition opening: Wednesday, 20 February 2013 at 19:00h, P74
Curated by: Tadej Pogačar

Bálint Szombathy’s exhibition Telephotography of the 1980s is dedicated to the lesser known, yet very important and interesting segments of his creation: his experimentation with the medium of photography. During the “return to painting” era of the 1980s, Bálint Szombathy devoted himself to communication technology. As the graphic editor and designer of the Novi Sad daily newspaper Magyar Szó, he was attracted to a “special” medium of printing, which had yet to be properly exploited in the art world. This was the “facsimile telegraph”, a machine which transmitted a newspaper image from a distant location to an editorial office with the help of telephonic impulses. These old “Mufax” machines, which used a rotating drum covered with brown paper, were replaced in the 1980s with a new generation of machines which reproduced photographs on a soft, white surface. Thus the technology saw both its rise and fall in the 1980s. Since the majority of photographs contained a number of errors and distortions, the device lost its primary informational function and at the same time gained an artistic one.

Consequently in the 1980s Bálint created an exceptional opus of appropriated telephotography. That work contains visual alterations, graphisme , micro structures, repetitive patterns often reminiscent of the techniques of collage, montage, etc., which were impossible to create using traditional means and machines. At the same time every telephotographic work was unique, its repetition impossible. In this way it was fundamentally different from a graphic work or a photograph, both based on methods of multiplication. Of course, we can’t deny a noted measure of irony in the fact that the machine which was designed for operating completely in an information system, exhibits a “sensible” dysfunction.

Bálint Szombathy is a representative of the “new artistic practice” and stands for one of the most significant figures of contemporary visual arts in the region. Since 1969 his art represents an example of a distinct nomadic and hybrid artistic practice. He creates drawings graphics, books, comics, photography, performances, interventions, visual poetry, conceptual art, etc. Szombathy in his actions and stagings most often connects avant-garde activism, neo-avant-garde and post-conceptual art. Through semiotic investigation he represents how the mechanisms of production, exchange and consumption reconstruct meanings and values.

Bálint Szombathy has participated in many major international exhibitions in Europe, Canada and the US, among others on prestigious exhibitions of contemporary arts (Body and the East, After the Wall, Hungarian Contemporary Art) at the Ludwig Museum of Budapest, the Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, and Moderna Museet, Stockholm. He is the recipient of numerous awards for artistic creation including being a multiple prizewinner at the Book Fair in Novi Sad and Belgrade. He lives and works between Novi Sad and Budapest.

The programme of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute is supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia and by the Municipality of Ljubljana, Department for Culture.

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Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. at LA ART BOOK Fair in Los Angeles
1 February – 3 February 2013
www.laartbookfair.net

The assembly attempts to span a larger arc of tension, integrate Ruscha’s own books and put him into a evolution line in particular with the publications of Hiroshige and Hokusai, whose titles show great parallels in rhythm and use of numeric and vague enumerations.

The missing link could be Yoshikazu Suzuki’s GINZA HACCHO, buildings on Ginza, Tokyo, published as an accordion foldout book – in 1952, hence preceding Ruscha’s Sunset Strip for 13 years- in the same street-view-style which was for very long considered essentially Ruscha.

(ed.) Michalis Pichler, 20 pages, 14 x 18 cm, 2011, Zavod Parasite, Ljubljana
ISBN978-3-86874-008-0
€ 10.00

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The artistic duo Beli sladoled, comprised of Miha Perne and Leon Zuodar, received the OHO Group Award in 2011, the annual award bestowed to young visual artists by P74 Center and Gallery. Known for their unconventional attitude towards painting and drawing that they manifest in forms ranging from large-scale wall paintings all the way to fanzines, this time the award-winning artists will present their newest project Don’t look back.

In their work Beli sladoled characteristically intertwine elements of comic strips, graffiti, and pop art with an emphasis on drawing, figuration, and strong colours. It is a mixture of the different aesthetics and narrations which penetrated into the very medium of 1980s classical painting when art was reunited with the everyday life of contemporary society, a combination that is still present today. Their work contains a consciously over-objective chaoticness as well as primitive elements of painting and deformed figures which recall the work of Otto Dix and George Grosz. Beli sladoled go beyond the aforementioned frame with their unconventional imagination. Despite the awareness of the social context, the artists remain on the level of commentary without venturing into the field of criticism, as they take a humorous and uncritical distance towards every theme (the art system, marginalised groups …). Their works are governed by paradox, mockery, self-irony, a dense and playful iconography of contemporary society, inspired and meaningful commentaries, as well as fluid and rather sophisticated drawing. A linear reading is crossed with chaotic threads of contemporary imagery.

Don’t look back is a multilayered project in which the artists deal with two questions: that of primitive human expression and that of the direct recording of one’s internal states. Thus the pair decided to create the entire project through drawings using only black ink. Drawing, which is already a constant in their work, makes this possible for them. As such they see in drawing a great artistic potential despite of, or exactly because of, the fact that it was, and still is – particularly in contemporary Slovenian art – perceived as outdated and in turn marginalised. With the exclusion of the past/primitive/obsolete in the context of the current they reach a paradoxical effect; in the same moment they also command us not to look back, and steer us and themselves only towards the present. This triggers questions of denial, acceptance, and repression. Their works, which, as they claim, are always thought of as a type of “Kinder Egg”, again bring the effect of surprise. Thus the exhibition itself has been conceived in a similar way.

Don’t look back is the result of a month-long drawing action which took place in each artist’s intimate environment. Following the principle of a daily journal, they committed themselves to drawing at a specified time each day on their own sheet of paper. Eliminating control and censorship and introducing automatism, chance, momentariness, stream of consciousness, and paradox remind us of the principles of the historical avant-garde of the 20th century. The element of a scroll, which the artists will unravel for the first time to themselves only at the installation and to the public at the opening of the exhibition, reminds us of ancient manuscript scrolls, which were a sort of predecessor to today’s comic strip, and thus the paradox comes full circle. Or were they only jokingly when saying during their work on the project: “back to the roots … don’t look back”.
BARBARA STERLE VURNIK

Miha Perne
Born 22 April 1978 in Ljubljana. After completing his grammar school studies of photography at the Secondary School for Design and Photography, and attending his first year of study in the Art History Department at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana, in 1998/1999 he enrolled in the Painting Department at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design. In September 2004 under the mentorship of professors Zmago Jeraj and Borut Vogelnik, he finished his university studies with the title of Academic Painter. Gardens.

Leon Zuodar
Born 23 August 1977 in Postojna. After completing his grammar school studies at the Secondary School of Postojna and finishing his first year of study in the Visual Arts Education Department at the Faculty of Education at the University of Ljubljana, in 1998/1999 he enrolled in the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design. In September 2004 under the mentorship of professors Zmago Jeraj and Borut Vogelnik, he finished his university studies with the title of Academic Painter. Skateboards.

The programme of P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute is supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport and the Department for Culture of the Municipality of Ljubljana.

Contact:
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p74info@volja.net
mobile: 040 370 199

Gallery hours:
Monday – Friday 12.00 – 18.00 and by appointment
Saturday, Sunday closed