Exhibition

Petar Popijač: Embers

12. 09. 2014 – 03. 11. 2014

Petar Popijač (1988, Varaždin) has formulated the project so as to enable us to feel both the historical function of the space in the spiritual sense as well as the material saturation of the constitution of the space in recent times, when oak has begun to play an important role. It is Popijač’s choice of oak as the predominant material in his installation – not just regular oak, but immaculately preserved sub-fossil oak trunks of a characteristic grey colour that were buried deep beneath layers of earth for millennia – that summarises in multiple layers Popijač’s feeling for the timelessness of the former monastery – a spatial context in which the sensual artist is but a reconductor of energy. This time around, it is the selection of material that to the greatest extent defines Popijač’s installation. Conceptually, it is rife with the idea of heat as energy that unobstructedly flows through the material and modifies it in a process that is also inherent in the process of sculpting.

Photo: Tomaž Grdin, GBJ archive

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