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ELECTRIC SKY – Solo show by Staš Kleindienst Curated by Matilde Tiriticco Opening event 18 January 2017, from 07:00 pm 18 January – 04 March 2017 Atelier Home Gallery | Panfili Palace, Via della Geppa 2 (III floor), Trieste Visiting hours: 19 – 29 January 2017 10 – 12am and 5 - 8pm 30 January – 04 March 2017 Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 6 – 8pm or on appointment info@atelierhomegallery.org + with the support of the General Consulate of the Republic of Slovenia in Trieste + collateral event of the XVIII edition of the Trieste Film Festival – Alpe Adria (20 – 29 January 2017)
Atelier Home Gallery is pleased to present to the public the second exhibition of its season 2016/17 on Wednesday 18 January 2017: Electric Sky, solo show by the Slovenian painter Staš Kleindienst, curated by Matilde Tiriticco. The eighteen artworks, created between 2014 and 2016, will be exhibited for the first time in Italy thanks to the support and patronage of the Consulate General of the Republic of Slovenia in Trieste. Electric Sky, the title chose by the curator Matilde Tiriticco, takes inspiration by one of the paintings that will be exhibited - Elektricno nebo, 2015 – and emphasizes one of the two most important components of the Kleindienst’s work, meaning that the air perspective. The works of Staš Kleindienst, in fact, are characterized by the pictorial quality and a plane's point of view, that is impartial: as a magnifying glass, the Slovenian artist's painting shows the viewer human follies with an ironic and cynical vein as part of a clear vision about contemporary politics. As maps of humanity’s behavior, men are put under scrutiny for their actions consistent within capitalist and individualistic logic, which coexist in harmony on the canvas despite their immense diversity. The bright and cold colors that dominate the backgrounds in the subject, make it even more an abstract and graphic work of investigation and uncovering of our habits: in his artistic practice, Staš Kleindienst focuses on the social reality and the will to change by the point of view of power and the role of government. To make visible and therefore viewable an alternative scenario to the current time, the Slovenian artist creates paintings in which, more and more, imagination becomes the key and the reading of a possible future: explosions, colors and irony distort reality in order to attract our attention and encourage us to create participation of our contemporaneity. The exhibition Electric Sky also outlines how the first collaboration of Atelier Home Gallery with the first and most important Italian appointment with the cinema of Central and Eastern Europe, the Trieste Film Festival. It has been decided to promote a contemporary artist active in the artistic and cultural interest of the film festival.
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Palazzo Panfili, Via della Geppa 2 – 34132 Trieste (Italy) +39 348 9278461
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Stas Kleindienst Staš Kleindienst (born 1979) finished his MA in fine art in 2009 at the Academy of Fine Art and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia. His work addresses the issue of origin, representation, and naturalization of power and authority. He works mainly in painting and drawing. In 2014 he won the OHO Group Award, the main national visual arts award for young visual artists. He lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Solo shows: 2016 - Unknown / Unrecognized, Idrija Municipal Museum, Idrija, Slovenia 2015 - Unknown / Unrecognized, Centre and Gallery P74, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2015 - The In-betweens, Gallery Alkatraz, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2014 - State of Exception, Miklova House, Ribnica, Slovenia 2013 - Other Side of a Painting, Idrija City Library Gallery, Idrija, Slovenia 2012 - Structures of Valorization / Colonization, Residency Unlimited, New York, USA 2011 - Band of Outsiders, Hilton New York, The Center for Book Arts, Public Plaza behind the Eventi Hotel, New York, USA 2010 – Newborn (documentary), Kiberpipa, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2010 – Newborn: Ideologies, Kapsula Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2010 – Buy Your Own Art Experience, AC Institute, New York, USA 2007 - Buy Your Own Art Experience, APT, Novo mesto, Slovenia 2006 – Mixed Media, P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia Publications: 2010 - Reartikulacija no. 10, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2009 - Reartikulacija no. 9, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2008 - e-flux no. 1, december, New York, USA 2008 - Reartikulacija no. 5, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2008 - Reartikulacija no. 4, ljubljana, Slovenia 2008 - Zarez no. 223, Zagreb, Croatia 2007 – Imago no. 24, Bratislava, Slovakia 2007 – Borec 639 – 643, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2007 – MALMOE no. 38,Vienna, Austria 2007 – Toposcapes: Interventions into Socio-cultural and Political Spaces, Laafeld, Austria 2007 – Dialogi, Maribor, Slovenia 2007 – Contemporary Art Collection Marino Cettina, Umag, Croatia Lectures, conferences: 2008 - Politics of Contemporary Art: Workshop, Stacion Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, Prishtina, Kosovo 2008 - Principles and Methodologies of Auto-education, Tanzquartier, Dunaj, Austria 2008 – Reartikulacija, Center of Contemporary Art, Celje, City Gallery Nova Gorica, Slovenia 2007 – Break 2.4 – Life with Art, Infoshop nad Menzo, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2007 – Symposium on Art, Ideology and Politics, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
_______________________________________________________________________________________ Atelier Home Gallery
PI (VAT) 01269920326
Palazzo Panfili, Via della Geppa 2 – 34132 Trieste (Italy) +39 348 9278461
www.atelierhomegallery.org info@atelierhomegallery.org
ELECTRIC SKY – Solo show by Staš Kleindienst Curated by Matilde Tiriticco th
Opening reception Wednesday 18 of January 2017, h. 7pm In show from the 18th of January to the 4th of March 2017 Atelier Home Gallery | Panfili Palace, Via della Geppa 2 (III floor), Trieste th
Visiting hours: from 19th to 29 of January 2017 - 10 – 12am e 5 – 8pm From the 30th of January on: Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 6 – 8pm or on appointment info@atelierhomegallery.org info@atelierhomegallery.org | M. +39 348 9278461 Press info: Matilde Tiriticco, m.tiriticco@atelierhomegallery.or
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PI (VAT) 01269920326