9. maj / May – 25. junij / June 2023
3X2
Kustos / Curator: Dušan Fišer
Umetniki / Artists: Marko Jakše, Iva Tratnik, Mitja Ficko, Bojan Šumonja
Otvoritev / Opening: 9. maj / May 2023, 19.00
V Galeriji mesta Ptuj je do 25. junija na ogled skupinska slikarska razstava Marka Jakšeta, Ive Tratnik, Mitje Ficka in Bojana Šumonje. Na razstavi 3×2 so predstavljena dela, ki so nastala v Jakšetovih posamičnih sodelovanjih z drugimi tremi umetniki.
Marko Jakše je z vsakim od omenjenih slikarjev ustvaril serijo slik, ki bodo tokrat prvič predstavljene kot celota, kot epilog sodelovanja z drugimi tremi umetniki. Kot poudarjajo v ptujski galeriji, je takšno sodelovanje eksperiment, komunikacija, odnos in izjemna izkušnja.
Med drugim bo na ogled nekaj del, razstavljenih na skupni razstavi Jakšeta in Mitje Ficka Z neba v nebo, ki je bila odprta nedavno v Mestni galeriji Ljubljana. Umetnika, ki sta se oba izobraževala pri slikarki Metki Krašovec, sta pri omenjenem projektu oz. pri seriji slik pretežno večjih formatov in del na papirju združila svoji ustvarjalni energiji in skupaj sprostila vse tiste sile, ki so ju najprej razdivjale v likovnem smislu ustvarjalnosti in nato povezale v prepletene barvno vsebinske zgodbe, so zapisali v ljubljanski galeriji.
Jakše in Iva Tratnik, sodelujeta že vse od leta 2009, med drugim sta se leta 2011 predstavila s skupno razstavo Bojni ples na zbombardirani luni v mariborski Kibeli, medtem ko so sodelovanje med Jakšetom in Šumonjo označili za najkrajše, med drugim sta sodelovala leta 2018 pri razstavnem projektu One Dollar Bill.
Marko Jakše, v Ljubljani rojeni akademski slikar, je izjemno zanimiv in samosvoj umetnik v slovenskem prostoru, ki je Slovenijo predstavljal na zadnjem Beneškem bienalu. Leta 1987 je diplomiral na ljubljanski Akademiji za likovno umetnost pod mentorstvom Metke Krašovec, leta 2015 pa je prejel nagrado Prešernovega sklada.
A group exhibition of paintings by Marko Jakše, Iva Tratnik, Mitja Ficko and Bojan Šumonja is on show at the Ptuj City Gallery until 25 June. The 3×2 exhibition features works created in Jakše’s individual collaborations with the other three artists.
Marko Jakše has created a series of paintings with each of these artists, which will be presented for for the first time as a whole, as an epilogue of his collaboration with the other three artists. As the Ptuj gallery points out, this kind of collaboration is an experiment, a communication, a relationship and an extraordinary experience.
Among others, some of the works exhibited in the joint exhibition of Jakše and Mitja Ficko, From Sky to Sky, which recently opened at the Municipal Gallery of Ljubljana, will be on show. The artists, who both studied with painter Metka Krašovec, combined their creative energies in this project, or in a series of mostly large-format paintings and works on paper, and together they unleashed all those forces that first divided them in the visual sense of creativity and then connected them in intertwined stories of colour and content, the Ljubljana gallery said.
Jakše and Iva Tratnik, have been collaborating since 2009, including their 2011 joint exhibition Battle Dance on the Bombed Moon at Maribor’s Kibela, whilethe collaboration between Jakše and Šumonja is the shortest, including their 2018 collaboration on the exhibition project One Dollar Bill.
Marko Jakše, a Ljubljana-born academic painter, is a very interesting and unique artist in the Slovenian space, who represented Slovenia at the last Venice Biennale. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 1987 under the mentorship of Metka Krašovec, and was awarded the Prešeren Fund Prize in 2015.
