Stane Jagodič
X-Ray Art
The origins of the retrospective exhibition X-Ray Art can be found within the quarter of a century long artistic activity of Stane Jagodič. It is based on thematic and aesthetic grounds connected to the historical avant-garde, especially to the two main influential protagonists and role models Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray. The two completed series were created at completely different moments in time. The first one saw the light of day in 1972, when the artist was exploring the laws and possibilities of these tools; the second in the mid 90’s, when the same ideas, but in a more mature form, rushed to the surface again and materialized in a well-rounded series. In 1997, this series could be seen in the review publication Častilec svetlobe, srebra in rje (The Worshipper of Light, Silver and Rust), which accompanied the exhibition at the Slovenian Cultural Center Korotan in Vienna; the foreword was written by Drago Medved. The present exhibition of Stane Jagodič’s works at the Photon Gallery focuses on and establishes the unified context of his series X-Ray Art.