Lado Jakša solo exhibition Overlooked Views in frames of this year’s Month of Photography in Bratislava!
7 November – 4 December 2015
Embassy of Republic of Slovenia in Bratislava, Ventúrska 5, 81315 Bratislava
Opening reception: Friday, 6 November at 15.00 pm
Lado Jakša is a versatile artist who in his rich artistic body of work combines photography, written word and music. His exhibition of photographs, entitled Overlooked Views, displays a specific synthesis of different media – photography and music. This combination is characterised by the artist’s original approach and the fact that the visual substance is inevitably related to the music.
As a photographer Jakša is inspired by specific perspectives, unusual points of view, and seemingly and optically elusive visionary atmospheres. He plays around with unusual methods of sharpening, with shifts and slips between exposition, and with the use of different possibilities of the ‘preview image function’ on the screens of digital cameras. By doing that he achieves odd optical perspectives, unreal colour tones, and highly unconventional levels of focusing and de-focusing of photographic image. Therefore his photographs could be easily confused for digital manipulations.
Images of shadowy self-portraits and abstract shapes beyond recognition that show various motifs of nature and objects seem to be very sensual and slightly surreal. With the Overlooked Views series the artists offers an insight into distinctly lyrical visual interpretation of conventional motifs and views of the world. The world that surrounds us and invites us to follow its possible views. The views that find unusual, interesting and lively features in complete commonness.
The opening of the exhibition will be accompanied with peculiar photo-multivision and concert, both being substantially related to visual and conceptual message of the exhibition.
(Jasna Jernejšek)
(Photo: Lado Jakša, Overlooked View 124 D, 2008)