Lara Štrumej / Geometry of Solitude: Some Modernist Works From the National Photography Collection at Moderna Galerija Among the numerous original languages employed by the individual photographers whose work features in Moderna galerija's photography collection, our attention was drawn to shots that reflect the creative responses of photographers either to an order existing in the external phenomenal world or to individual relationships arising in the urban world that establish a new conceptual order in created images when photographically transposed. The works featured in the catalogue were not created at one time — they span a period from the mid-1950s to the late 20th century. But apart from iconographic similarities and an austere narrative that stems from the modernist desire of the artists to retreat from noisy everyday life to the aesthetics of the silence of photographic images, they are marked by an exploration of the semantic issues of photography as a self-sufficient artistic entity. In every one of these images, the dialogue with the visible world is in its own special way removed from the dynamics of social life and takes place with respect to space and the state of things within this space. The perceived situations where man is present only through his absence are presented in ways not always new, since the artists built on the achievements of New Objectivity, a period that is regarded as the beginning of Slovene modernist photography. Text: Lara Štrumej  Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art Language: Slovene, English Year: 2002 softback, 54 pages Dimensions: 27 x 22 cm

In this book Anikó Robitz presents her photographs made between 2007 and 2020. Her works are based on modern and contemporary architecture. When taking pictures she uses only geometrical forms and elements to create her unique and minimalistic photos. While using the chosen details the composition can get far from the original and shows us something completely new. None of the photos were made in the studio but in the real world which surrounds us, in cities where titles refer to. Although Anikó Robitz is a photographer, her pictures are more appropriately approached as works of fine art. They are best understood by those who are familiar with 20th century visual art forms, primarily abstraction, Suprematism, and Minimalism – can be read in four languages in the foreword of the book. Text written by artist and art critic Bálint Szombathy.

In the Gastropoda project artist deals with the “metabolism of images” inspired by the accidental co-authorship of snails, which ate the mail invitations to exhibition openings in Fontcuberta’s home mailbox. It is still possible, however, to discern the shapes of the original images in the selected “metabolised” works. Author: Joan Fontcuberta Texst: Joan Fontcuberta Publisher: La Fabrica Year: 2015 Softcover, 26 pages Language: english, spanish Dimensiones: 30 x 40 cm ISBN: 9788415691914 

The story is simple. We follow the protagonist, natural light, in three chapters, as it slowly unveils and deglamourizes. In the first chapter, protruding slants of light are unravelling miniscule details and creating mystical, dream-like images. We could be anywhere. Then, Lumen takes us into the tangible, but is entirely subordinate to geometry. Only in the third chapter is the exhausted body of a former maternity hospital illuminated, the walls stripped off to recognition. It is unforgiving, unmasking the misery, but bringing hope, light and warmth at the same time.   Renata Štebih, art historian Author: Nataša Segulin Text: Renata Štebih, Andrej Medved Design: Tomato Košir Publisher: Galerija Fotografija Dimenziones: 28 x 28 cm, 96 pages Hard cover, First Edition Year: 2019 ISBN: 9789619455210