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Miran Kreš: XYZ 2
30.04.2019 19:00

Miran Kreš: XYZ 2
KiBela / MMC KIBLA
exhibition opening on Friday, 22 March 2019, at 7 p. m.

To Miran Kreš, art is like open-ended science; an art work is a set of psychological impacts of colors and forms on the viewer. Kreš confronts the viewer with a paradoxical dichotomy – with the right degree of lighting/obscuration, the monochromatic white objects/visual elements, otherwise almost invisible to the eye, turn into light-radiating color surfaces and geometric forms. Through this the artist explores primary visual elements, where colors and forms gradually become more and more minimalistic, yet intense in their manifestation. Miran Kreš constructs the visual space by means of pigments, wall paints and strings, carefully positioned in the gallery space.

The spatial installation XYZ 2 has been tailored to the architecture and logic of the KiBela gallery space, and is formally based on primary visual elements – lines, colors, light and space. Inspired by revolutionary shifts in ways of perceiving the painting space from the first half of the 20th century, this abstract composition is an attempt to translate basic visual elements from the traditional two-dimensional into a three-dimensional space, which employs analog means (i.e., materials) to construct a virtual/digital environment. Through an absence of the mimetic, the use of abstracted elements and a minimalist esthetic, the artist creates a (endless) depth and airiness of space, yet in spite of the seemingly simple positioning of the light-coated vertical lines, he demands a considerable degree of concentration and intense sensory activation on behalf of the viewer.

The exhibition will be showing until 30 April 2019.
Admission free. Kindly welcome.

Miran Kreš (1973) graduated in painting at the Department of Art Pedagogy of the Faculty of Education in Ljubljana in 1998 under the mentorship of professor Zdenko Huzjan. His works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions during and after his study years. He spent a few years in Amsterdam, working independently and alongside fellow Dutch, British and French artists, and creating several noteworthy projects in painting and multimedia. After returning to Slovenia, he works as a self-employed artist in the field of culture. Kreš works in painting, graphic art and installations; the common denominators of his works are color, light, space and the psychological effect they have on the observer.

Some of the milestones in his career include: GAD Project at the Youth Biennial in Bucharest, Romania (2005), special recognition award for his graphic work at the II. International Printmaking Exhibition in Istanbul, Turkey (2006), an exhibition at the Californian Institute of Integral Studies Gallery in San Francisco, California (2008), Project Berlin at the Factory-Art Gallery in Berlin, Germany and at the MOP Gallery in Sydney, Australia (2012), the exhibition Illuminations at the International Center of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana (2013), and participation in the project Preliminary Design of an Experimental Art-Circling Spaceship, at the Kunstahaus Essen in Germany (2016). His works form part of private and public art collections. He lives and works in Ljubljana.

Production: X-OP Association for Contemporary Art
Image: Miran Kreš, Z, 2018, thread, acrylic, pigments, 700 x 600 x 400 cm

MMC KIBLA / KiBela, space for art
Kneza Koclja Street 9, Maribor Open on weekdays between 9 a. m. and 10 p. m., Saturdays between 4 p. m. and 10 p. m.

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