On Wednesday, 16 September at 8 pm
You are kindly invited to attend the conversation with Alen Ožbolt and the screening of his not yet published and long time not shown video records about the work of VSSD group as well as following independent career of the artist. The conversation will be conducted and moderated by Jasna Jernejšek and Dejan Sluga.
The conversation and the screening will take place in frames of the exhibition entitled Ceci n’est pas une photographie and subtitled Spaces of Photography / On, Above, Below, Over Photography by Slovenian artist Alen Ožbolt will put on show a number of his mixed-media works that relate to the photographic medium on several different levels. Moreover, it will explore the ways in which photography penetrates his works, which is mostly painting, sculpture, performance and installation art. The show will present pieces from the period when Ožbolt was a member of the artist group VSSD (Do You Painter Know Your Dues), as well as the period after 1996 when he started working independently all the way to his recent works from 2009-2014.
Alen Ožbolt (1966) is a visual artist who works across various media, using a multiplicity of techniques. He studied at the Fine Art Academies in Zagreb and in Ljubljana where he graduated in Sculpture, and was later visiting artist at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI). He was part of the group Do You Painter Know Your Dues (VSSD) from 1984-1995 and has been working independently since 1996. Since 2007 he has been a professor of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, where he lives and works.
The exhibition is open until 9 October 2015.