MARJAN DREV: Complementary pairs and figures in nodal space
Dr Marjan Drev is known in Slovenia mainly for his large public sculptures, in which he draws on the long tradition of representation in European culture, but on the other hand brings some unusual approaches to figuration in these sculptures, intertwined with theoretical, mathematical or, as he says, topological nodal spatial considerations. Most of us are familiar with his monumental statue of Bishop A. M. Slomšek in front of the Maribor cathedral, or the statue of Miro Cerar, co-authored with Vlasta Tihec Zorka, erected in front of the Brinje sports hall in Grosuplje. There are also works such as St Cyril and St Methodius and the monumental St Nicholas, all three in Murska Sobota.
The exhibition at the National Institute of Chemistry provides an insight into his theoretical reflections and the connection between this thought and his sculptural practice, the interpenetration of spatial functions and the form transfers through which his "knot structures" shine. Drev's sculptural language is a clear, deliberate and high-standard spatial factor that not only defines the object and material of the sculpture and its space in the very condensed flow of the shaped matter, but also, with its thinly sensed and at the same time powerful conception of meaning, defines the broader space in which the sculpture is situated.
The exhibition will be on view until 20 April 2024.
Curator: Jiri Kočica
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