ZAVOD CELEIA/ Gallery of Contemporary Art Celje
PAINTING: Transfigurations
Participating artists:
Uršula Berlot, Ksenija Čerče, Ivo Prančič, Mojca Zlokarnik, Žarko Vrezec
Exhibition curator:  Alenka Domjan, M.A.
Period: November 26th, 2009 – January 20th, 2010
Texts in the catalogue: Milena Zlatar, Uršula Berlot, Petra Kapš, Alenka Domjan, Mojca Zlokarnik, Žarko Vrezec

The exhibition, through individual examples of works of art, deals with various perspectives of the viewpoint associated with the physiognomy of a painting as well as its perception. Through the various artistic forms of the participating artists, it unveils the structure of the material and spiritual world, forming at the same time a fully developed insight into the cohabitation of emotions and sensations. The viewer can move among Uršula Berlot’s light, transparent spatial images, divided between the material and the immaterial; among Ksenija Čerče’s visual-audible paintings, which took form through the process of working with and analysis of colours, forms, textures and materials; among Ivo Prančič’s dramaturgy of colour and flat structures; among Mojca Zlokarnik’s paintings bursting with colour; and in Žarko Vrezec’s space where painting transfigures into a haptical experience.

Thus, the exhibition PAINTING: TRANSFIGURATIONS, through a variety of artists’ painterly practices (each artist with his/her works of art occupies its own  proper space within the Gallery of Contemporary Art), offers interesting starting points for reflection on painting today. Reflection on its vulnerability associated with new technological productions, on the criteria of subtleness and subjective painterly strategies within the field of the painting, on (in)tangibility of the surface (on haptic/tangible and optical/visual-mental experience), on light and sound capacity of flow, on colour and its tangibility and evanescence, on different ways of constructing a “painting”. And finally, reflections on the fact that the echo of traditional painting is by no means in the ash heap of history, but is a medium that today, through the material, refines and purifies the idea, tackles its laws and creates the possibilities of transfiguring into new visual scenarios.
(in the catalogue: introductory text by Alenka Domjan)