Milan Erič & Zvonko Čoh: Yearning for Light

As artists, Milan Erič and Zvonko Čoh particularly excel in the medium of drawing. The exhibition in Kostanjevica, entitled Yearning for Light, betokens a shift in their work from drawing installations featuring unusual, clever and even improvised combinations of drawings that take shape through a dialogue with the space to installations in space. The installation at Kostanjevica is a comprehensively formulated ambience inspired by the architectural and symbolic logic of the space; at the same time, as an art intervention it subverts it and translates it into a different experiential zone. In the space of the monastery basilica, the artists created an alternative architectural situation by hanging and unfurling translucent white strips from the ceiling and walls. It is as if they are drawing on air. Forming a meshwork, the strips fill out and set in motion the otherwise vacant church space. On the one hand, their structure keeps time with the rhythm of the architectural elements: the pointed arches and the sheaf-like columns and arcades; on the other, it retains its own unique interplay of forms.

Photo: Tomaž Grdin, GBJ archive