Festić Gallery presents a joint painting-sculpture exhibition of two Slovenian artists: painter Natalija Šeruga and sculptor Dragica Čadež Lapajne.
NATALIJA ŠERUGA was born in 1971 in Maribor. She graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana in 1999; where she also finished her Master’s degree in 2003. The artist inhabits the emptiness of space with the visual archetype, thus expressing the infinity or the emptiness between the earth and the sky, which echoes into the space. It is at the unfathomable edges of the dimensions of her paintings, where the dramatic and unique changes of the space occur. In the infinite plains – like here on Earth – the incoming time circle between birth and death is set, marked by circular and round geometric shapes, which look like stars and constellations. The biomorphic shapes overtake the centre of the painting screen, and control the majority of the exhibited works with its dynamic presence, which gives meaning and relativity to the shown fixation of happening. It is these forms that mean the birth of what is alive, elemental in space and dimensionality, where alive and elemental are merely abstract terms. Through analogies, the abstract interpretation of phenomena – those most crucial for the existence of our dimensions – brings us to relativity and the opportunity to establish a relationship to our own existence. Our dimensions are – as well as the dimensions of time in the universe – colourful mosaics: we live in the unavoidable world of many dimensions: time, space, relations, neighbourhoods, states, …
DRAGICA ČADEŽ LAPAJNE graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana in 1963, and finished her postgraduate studies in 1965. She is a professor at the Faculty of Education in Ljubljana. She works mainly with wood, creating small and monumental plastics. Her typical work is symbolic, consisting of two or more forms joined into a statue. In contemporary Slovenian statuary art, Čadež and a group of neo-constructivists (1968-1972) realized the constructivist tendencies. Since 1963, Čadež cooperated at numerous exhibitions, art workshops, and sculpting symposia in Slovenia and abroad. In 1986, she received the Prešeren prize for the sculptures Associations of Pompey. Dragica Čadež – an artist whose work is a part of the best Slovenian contemporary sculpting for decades – always tries to cange and adapt her sculpting installations to the specific needs of singular galleries.
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