Marko Drpić, the driving force of the tipoRenesansa studio, deals with the themes of youth(s) and coming of age with the project in the display window of his workshop. His installation questions the fatality of decisions and experiences that happen during the coming of age, and consequently affect the following life of youngsters. The artist covered the display window of the studio with a white cardboard that creates a snowy white ambient during the light of day. Only after dark, when the artificial light shines upon the setting, thoughts and statements of people older than 30 show up on the cardboard. These collected and selected expressions, written with a colorless blunt tip which is invisible in the daylight, represent experiences that strongly affected their lives when they were young. As the author himself says, »we the grownups don't take youngsters and their age very seriously, but when the latter are confronted with life’s challenges, we're suddenly surprised by their maturity«.

 

MARKO DRPIĆ learned calligraphy and letter carving in 1991/1992 in the Kristoffel Boudens atelier in Antwerpen, Belgium. Upon his return to Slovenia he worked one year with the master stonemason Boris Udovč in Naklo near Kranj. In 2000 he graduated in art history (with a calligraphic analysis of a medieval Bible) and library sciences. He's worked between 2000 and 2006 as a librarian in the Slovenian Ethnographic Museum, after that he's an independent calligraphist, designer and educator. In 2010 he established the letterpress studio tipoRenesansa.

 

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