I treat the painting as an object that doubles up as a sort of blotting paper for ideas. My painting process includes a thorough research of different natural and human sciences' topics that I find problematic in relation to the world and the time I live in. The visual side of my paintings is seen as a 'trace' of individual deliberations and explorations. My artistic work is a collage on three levels: collage of content, computer aided sketching and technological-material execution. I operate with paupered images, I appropriate them and then recontextualize them into new units of substance. Through the image translation process that works like a sort of perverted 'meme', I arrive at its very opposite: a painting, very present in its space due to its size and materiality, that works as some kind of a sculpture or even monolith. The executional part of my work is mostly complemented by the contents of the paintings as well. By 'hacking' technology and using materials available today I'm building a DIY painting machine. The way I imprint the image matters, I think it reflects the times we're living in and the way we're living (them). Painting installation One Size Fits All thus addresses the carrying role of institutional systems that are being taken over by corporate entities, increasingly able to control our everyday realities, perpetuating the existing relations of power. /Adrijan Praznik/

 

ADRIJAN PRAZNIK finished the School of design and photography in Ljubljana and then went to study painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. He also creates illustrations and comics, he was a regular contributor to the Tribuna magazine, while his works are published in Stripburger, Fotografija and Praznine magazines. He was awarded a reward for special accomplishments by the Academy in 2013. He's exhibited his works in many notable exhibitions home and abroad since 2007. He lives and works in Ljubljana.
 

Video was done by cooperation with Boj Nuvak and Dominik Mencej.
The realization of the project was made possible by Kolosej (Reit d.o.o.).

Coproduction: City Museum of Ljubljana and galleries of Ljubljana