Marjetica potrc biography of donald
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Interview With Marjetica Potrc
From Antony Gormley, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1994
Marjetica Potrc: When I first saw the Field in Salvatore Ala’s gallery in New York, I was amazed by seeing thousands of small clay figures staring at me. I felt uneasy as if the subject of Field was myself and not the work. The ‘to be’ of the work has become the ‘to be’ of the viewer. Thinking about it afterwards, I started to question myself as to why. It was not possible to approach the work with formal language and with categories defining the objecthood of figure. The basic condition of the work seemed to be different.
Antony Gormley: I think it’s an attempt to escape from the object nature of art into an idea of art as a creative place: as an open space. An open space that in this work can’t be physically inhabited but nevertheless is an architecturally defined space in the gallery. Up to now the appreciation of art has been based on a kind of shared notion of space; that the viewer and the object share the same space and they have this dialogue where the audience perceives it - walks around it. With Field, the work entirely occupies the gallery. In an ideal installation, the space of the viewer and the space of the work are in some kind of balance and the first time
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Marjetica Potrč
Installation view Agreement with the Natural World and the Assembly of Living Beings, 2024, Fragmentos, Espacio de Arte y Memoria, Bogota, Colombia, courtesy of Fragmentos, photo by Juan Velasco
The Resilience of Roots, 2024, ink on paper, 56 x 76 cm, 22 x 29 7/8 in
The Assembly of the Living World, 2024, ink on paper, series of 10 drawings, each 29.7 x 21 cm, 8 1/4 x 11 3/4 in, courtesy of Fragmentos, Espacio de Arte y Memoria, photo by Juan Velasco
The Assembly of the Living World, 2024, ink on paper, series of 10 drawings, each 29.7 x 21 cm, 8 1/4 x 11 3/4 in, detail, courtesy of Fragmentos, Espacio de Arte y Memoria, photo by Juan Velasco
Installation view Agreement with the Natural World and the Assembly of Living Beings, 2024, Fragmentos, Espacio de Arte y Memoria, Bogota, Colombia, courtesy of Fragmentos, photo by Juan Velasco
The Rights of a River, 2021, ink on paper, group of 10 drawings, each 29.7 x 21 cm, framed 36.7 x 28 cm, 14 1/2 x 11 in, and The Life of the Lachlan River, 2022, ink on paper, group of 10 drawings, each 29.7 x 21 cm, framed 36.7 x 28 cm, 14 1/2 x 11 in, courtesy of Fragmentos, Espacio de Arte y Memoria, photo by Juan Velasco
Wall drawing The Time on the Lachlan River (2022) and visual essay The Life of t
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Marjetica Potrč
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