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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 -
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SALE!Lara Žagar (1993) is a visual artist and photographer. She graduated from the Faculty of Natural sciences and Engineering – Department of Fashion Design (2018) and attends the master's program at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, Department of Video and New Media (from 2021). She is the co-founder of the fashion brand Fuga, which focuses on photographic material in its creations. In addition, she creates long-term projects in which she explores the visual experience of the environment. She is interested in different approaches to photography, which she combines with video and sound. Re-terraforming is a project in the making, which the artist started in 2021. Visual research is based on thinking about the end of the world, both in physical and abstract terms. By manipulating and combining photos of shopping malls into collages that repeat malls’ generic architectural design, the artist misleads the viewer and shows an imaginary, dystopian reality. In the series of photographs, she also introduces subtle images of inanimate organisms, which are presented in the form of a hologram and hint at something extra-terrestrial.The photograph is printed on archival matt 290g paper. The entire edition is printed with a white border in the dimension 40 x 50 cm (including the white border). With each print, you will receive a certificate of authenticity. Each print (photograph) comes in an edition of 50. -
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Moderne galerija, Ljubljana, June 30-Sept. 25, 2005. The first wholesome view of the photographer's life and his productive, rich body of work from the sixties and seventies, which places him firmly amongst the pioneers of journalist photography in Slovenia. Author of Photographs: Leon Dolinšek Texts: mag. Lara Štrumej, Polde Bibič, Zdenka Badovinac Publisher: MG Year: 2005 paperback, 86 pages Language: english, slovene Dimensions: 22 x 27 cm ISBN: 961-206-044-4 -
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NEW!Lin Gerkman (1995) graduated in industrial design from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana where he is about to finish a master’s course. Besides industrial design, he is involved in photography and video. In his works, Gerkman gives meaning to found objects by combining them into a brand-new whole. He held solo exhibitions in the Stolp Photogallery (North of South, Maribor, 2019) and the Photogether gallery (Myth and Ritual, Zlin, Czech Republic, 2020). “These photographs are from a work-in-progress which deals with the relation between the environment and an intimate experience of home. By exploring places and objects that have sentimental value to me, I try to grasp the notions of absence, loss, and imperfection. I go back in time searching traces.” The photograph is printed on archival semi-gloss 290g paper. The entire edition is printed with a white border in the dimension 40 x 50 cm (including the white border). With each print, you will receive a certificate of authenticity. Each print (photograph) comes in an edition of 50. -
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NOVO!Dimensions: 50 x 40 cm + black frame All prints are printed on fine-art 100 % cotton paper -
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NOVO!Dimensions: 40 x 30 cm + black frame All prints are printed on fine-art 100 % cotton paper -
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NEW!Mario Karlovčec (1987, Croatia) finished undergraduate studies in computer science. He enrolled in a PhD course of machine learning and social networks analysis in 2015 and worked at the Artificial Intelligence Lab of the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana. In 2019, he graduated in photography at the Higher School of Applied Sciences, Ljubljana. He was featured in the Analog Magazine, exhibited at the PH21 gallery of contemporary photography in Budapest, Hungary, and held a solo exhibition in the Layer House Gallery in Kranj. “The project investigates the correlation between the persistent process of increasing entropy in nature and human interventions in the environment. It creates tension between order and chaos which is also evident on the surfaces of things around us. If we step back and observe the world on a large-scale timeline, the activities of the humankind become tiny and irrelevant. These photographs were created in the spirit of ephemeral; a new house and an abandoned ruin put side-by-side.” The photograph is printed on archival semi-gloss 290g paper. The entire edition is printed with a white border in the dimension 40 x 50 cm (including the white border). With each print, you will receive a certificate of authenticity. Each print (photograph) comes in an edition of 50. -
31 portraits of German-speaking writers - Handke, Haderlap, Mayröcker, Köhlmeier, Röggla, Menasse and others. Lipuš's "scratches" describe and label the portrayed and their literary work. The multi-layered and time-consuming photographic process of the work thickens the photograph and surpasses mere documentary footage. “Photographing is an attempt to deal with the medium of photography itself and its possibilities. In my opinion, no other artistic medium offers this breadth of different aesthetic and content-related possibilities. I advocate a more specific approach to artistic photography and think that photo art should simply deal with aesthetics.” (M. Lipuš) Author: Marko LIpuš Publisher: Marko Lipuš, Wieser Verlag Year: 2008 Hardcover, 1st Edition, 1000 copies Language: English, German, Slovene, Italian ISBN: 978-3-85129-803-1 -
The photobook, entitled Babica (Grandmother) showcases the recent photographic project of photographer Marko Lipuš who set out with his camera to trace the footsteps of his grandmother. This Carinthian Slovenian was deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp and murdered there in 1945 by the Nazis. In four chapters, Lipuš visually explores the surfaces of the physical structures at the former concentration camp’s premises. He is interested in objects of everyday life in the camp and in the place of the crime itself. Authors: Sabine Arend, Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein, Margit Zuckriegl Publisher: Residenz Verlag Year: 2016 Hardback, 120 pages Language: German, English ISBN: 978-3-7017-3387-3 -
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Breakfast tray with photograph by Martin Parr. Enjoy breakfast in bed with this unique serving tray featuring a full English breakfast photographed by Martin Parr in 1995. The image was included in Parr's book 'British Food' which marked the beginning of his fascination with food as a way to explore social issues and identity. Magnum Photos is an internationally renowned photographic cooperative owned by its photographer-members. This year marks Magnum Photos seventieth birthday and to celebrate they have collaborated with Plinth to create a series of homeware featuring some of their most iconic images. Released to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of Magnum. Dimensions: 24.5 x 37 cm
