ANDREJ ŠTULAR: Market
light installation
at the NLB building on the Republic Square // until 14 June
OPENING: Friday, 23 May, at 9:30 p.m.

Andrej Štular’s new project is, with a good measure of criticism, inspired by the phenomenon of consumerism, which can be interpreted as a kind of disturbance in human evolution, deepening many of the pressing circumstances of our time. In his characteristic manner, marked by the skilful and witty recycling of found materials or discarded objects, the artist has created a kinetic object that uses light to create a moving shadow backdrop on a barren concrete wall. The object’s incessant rotation symbolises the peculiar entrapment of modern human; or, according to the artist, ‘the consumer, armed to the teeth, clings convulsively to the shopping trolley, lost in a vicious circle of searching for ever new products’.

ANDREJ ŠTULAR (1967) has been working in the fields of illustration, sculpture, puppet and set design, comics, painting, photography and film since the mid-1980s. He is a member of the Ljubljana collective Strip Core and the Nebo Puppet Theatre. In his work, he often tackles combinations of various artistic techniques with the spheres of domestic psychopathology, as well as more universal themes that question the essence of the human being, his or her identity and his or her position in the structure of the contemporary world. He has received several awards for his work at home and abroad, and in 2020, a working stipend from the Ministry of Culture. He lives and works in Kranj.

partner: NLB d. d.