Matej Stupica: A View of BB

City Lights, different locations downtown Ljubljana

 

The pre-festival programme occupies commercial exhibition grounds. The work by Matej Stupica explores spatial dimensions of the present and the future. The artist ponders and asks: “What if the Earth is flat, after all? When the eye ceases to travel; when the horizon can be grasped as a rope around a car park; when a room is not there to be entered; and when a microwave becomes a white surface. Balance. It can be measured in width and length. Credit. Then two fingers swipe to the left and a refrigerator shows up. Lines, a stroke, colour. Confrontations. A grey smartphone appears. And a TV. And a salt grinder. And a couch. A printer. Rough. A handle. A table. Red. A bicycle. Beans. Smooth. Violet. Rounded. Shiny.”

 

A View of BB is a painting installation in the City Lights advertisement panels opening to the passers-by a view of bright future in two dimensions. Objects are disclosed in their pure, aesthetical nature and formal qualities. The painter becomes a machine, while the painterly planar space is replaced by mechanisation.

 

Matej Stupica is an artist working with different artistic aspects and media. In his solo projects and numerous collaborations with other artists he has regularly opened new dimensions in his work. At the Lighting Guerrilla festival we already had a chance to experiment with his prepared piano called Organ. He received several awards and prizes for his work, including  Hinko Smrekar Prize for newspaper illustration (2008); Academy of Fine Arts Award for special artistic achievements (2008); and Prešeren Award for Students of painting (2011).

(2-8 Sept. 2014).

The project was made possible by Surovina d.o.o. and Europlakat d.o.o.