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DAMIJAN KRACINA
WHITE AS DIRTY SNOW
October 23– November 7,
2008
You are kindly invited to
attend the opening of the exhibition on Thursday,
October 23rd at 8 pm
at Galerija Škuc.
Through his
works at the exhibition White as Dirty Snow
the multi-media artist and sculptor Damijan Kracina examines
different degrees of dirt in dirty white. The rationale
behind this research is that in spite of what aggressive
advertising for washing agents tries to convince us of,
white is never completely white. Since white is a
combination of the entire colour spectrum, its shade/tone
depends on the colours of the environment. Just as white
always reflects something in its surroundings, a work of art
always reflects another artwork. The artistic models for
these works are combinations of the film Eraserhead (David
Lynch, 1977), documentaries on the Animal Planet channel,
the ceramic ready-made Fountain (Marcel Duchamp, 1917), and
Damjan's former art projects, such as Galapagos and
Specimen.
The main
thread, white in this case, of Damjan Kracina’s art projects
is research into organic forms in relation to different
environments. He has combined one of his favourite colours,
white, and biomorphic forms to create animations, video
works and a series of white installations with strange
creatures in an intimate human environment and within the
white gallery cube.
The content
is communicated through notes made on the pieces: white -
snow - ivory- toilet - bathroom -wellness - hygiene. With
regard to how they are made, toiletries flirt with
high-quality bathroom ceramics. Ivory ready to be shipped
off and still on sale. The snow has acquired an interesting
hue from air pollution. Animations reveal the process of
sketching hypergenetic creatures with peculiar curves called
bioonè. All these forms of white are covered in different
types of dirt.
If the
viewers cannot get satisfaction from the open content of
artworks, they can shake off their discomfort by reading the
accompanying texts by the exhibition’s curator, Jani Pirnat,
who has written short stories inspired by the artworks.
Curator:
Jani Pirnat
Exhibition was produced in
collaboration with Domestic Research
Society
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