It is with great pleasure that we announce the opening of the
exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Slovenian artist,
Cveto Marsič on Monday 22 November at 19.00 at the TR3
Gallery, Ljublajana.
In his new exhibition the Koper-born painter, as the title itself
suggests, presents a series of new works inspired by the idea
of the nest.
Large-size canvasses and drawings expressly created
for the exhibition’s spaces, in which the idea of nesting,
metaphorically conceived as the need for refuge, becomes a
true nest in the heart of the canvas itself.
A moment of ideal abstraction from the world, or perhaps
a concrete physical place to take refuge in from the flow of
events, a place in the heart of the tempest, in the eye of the
storm, where the matter of his works seems to subside, to
flatten and let light come in, a place to hide among the pleats
of a protective nature, conquered amid the dry leaves or dug
into the damp soil, a shelter from where one may observe
the occurrence of events without being part of them, as the
universe all around, so similar to the material mixture of his
works, is restless.
All this is perfectly visible in works such as Covered Great
Nesting, Salty Dance or Mud Ritual, large-size works with a
strong emotional impact, canvasses that can hardly contain
the power of the matter that is upset and reshaped by the
obsessive and chaotic movement of feet and hands, works that
deal with the most primitive side of Marsic’s work: we could
envisage him wandering barefoot on the horizontal surface of
the big canvas, moving in circles and digging his nest just like a
wolf.
Cveto Marsič, born in 1960 in Slovenia, but currently living in
Spain, has been in the last years highly coveted from many
foundations and contemporary art museums that have acquired
his works for their public collections. In 1998 Maria Corral, the
director of the Fundación Caixa, and Dan Cameron, curator
of the New Museum of Contemporary Art di New York, have
purchased a big-size canvas for the collection of Madrid’s
Fundación Arco; furthermore the Museum of Contemporary Art
of Tenerife (IODACC), the Museu d’Art Contemporani of Palma
de Mallorca, the Coleccion Esences of Barcelona, the Museum
of Modern Art of Rijeka and the Investment Art Fund of the BCE
have all enriched their collections with large-size canvasses by
the Slovenian painter.
The exhibition in presented in collaboration with the Torbandena
Gallery (Trieste).