Events

Guided tour of the exhibition of Apolonija Simon

Date: 31. 08. 2025
Time: 16:00

Guided tour of the exhibition!

Apolonija Simon: Unfinished Stories

Sunday, 31 August 2025, at 4pm

The guided tour will be conducted by the artist, Apolonija Simon, and director of GBJ, Goran Milovanović (in Slovenian language).

At first glance, one of the characteristics of Apolonija Simon’s painting appears to be a complex loyalty to the motif, which she has been playing with practically since her very beginnings. Basically, she always remains in the field of landscape in terms of genre, at which this is by no means an image of a “part of nature” captured solely by the eye and even less a plein-air method of catching light moods, for the depicted landscapes are a metaphor for her intimate inner world, her silence, which can also be read as a reflection of the current state of the world. For decades, the artist’s recognisable poetics have been building a space that is on the boundary of the visible and the intuitively comprehendible, which she achieves through abstract art forms. Her abstract landscapes are a frozen space of time, without events – and yet they speak.

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