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The solo exhibition of the artistic tandem Lealudvik highlights some of the key works of their past artistic creativity, but this time they are extended in content through the use of different media. Lealudvik gained recognition mainly through graphic design and zines;[5] this analogue medium enabled them to develop a distinctly eclectic approach to transforming contents and images from the popular occultist culture of the West European world. Their interest in the medium itself has also led to an innovative digital extension of zine on a virtual level, through the use of a freely available application to play GIFs. The videos that have been exhibited so far have served primarily as media extension of the otherwise tactile and analogue medium, but here they have become independent, or rather, the exhibition at the Škuc Gallery has added to them another media dimension.
At first glance, their artworks seem provocative and moralizing in content, but Lealudvik does not criticize the environment in which we operate, but rather, through intensified appropriation, simply indicates the artificial and rigid constructs that form our reality.
More about the exhibition: https://bit. ly/3aeWf38
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Lealudvik is an artistic tandem consisting of Lea Jelenko (1986) and Matjaž Komel (1987). Jelenko graduated in graphic and interactive communication from the Department of Textiles and Graphics at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering in Ljubljana, while Komel graduated in visual communication from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. They are active in the fields of visual art, graphic design and zine production. They have participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions, including: V. Independent Biennial (Kino Šiška, 2015), ZineZine (P74 Gallery, 2016), Zines! Contemporary Zine Production (International Centre of Graphic Arts, 2017), Watch out! Wet print! In the waters on Leviathan (Tam-Tam’s Street Gallery, curated by International Centre of Graphic Arts, 2017), and Photobook and Photozine (DobraVaga Gallery, 2018), Four Eyed Monster (Kino Šiška, 2018), OFF THE HOOK | Crude: Body, Colour, Realism (ISBN Gallery + Books, 2018), AIR4 [100 artists] [100 artworks] (Ravnikar Gallery Space, 2019).
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Acknowledgments: SCCA, Institute for Contemporary Art – Ljubljana, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering (Jure Ahtik), Tajda Novšak and Lara Plavčak.
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Contact of Škuc Gallery and curator of the exhibition:
Tia Čiček
tia. cicek@gmail. com
051 807 849
[1] “Zini so knjižice, največkrat samozaložniške naredi-sam publikacije, ki nastajajo v majhnih nakladah in z nizkimi produkcijskimi stroški. V zgodovini so se pojavljali kot pomemben medij določenih subkultur dvajsetega stoletja, vse od ljubiteljev znanstvene fantastike in punka. ” v Lara PLAVČAK, Sodobni umetniški zin, Zini!. Sodobna zinovska produkcija (Ljubljana, Mednarodni grafični likovni center, 24. 2. –28. 5. 2017, ed. Božidar Zrinski), Ljubljana 2017, p. 83.
[2] Kot je, naj bo.
[3] The Process Church of the Final Judgment.
[4] Robert DE GRIMSTON, Communications to all brethren (Information from Robert de Grimston), The Process Church of the Final Judgment Documents, 1968, p. 25. Kult je v šestdesetih in sedemdesetih letih 20. stoletja deloval predvsem v Veliki Britaniji, kasneje pa tudi v Združenih državah Amerike ter Mehiki.
[5] “Zines are booklets, most often self-published DIY publications, produced in small editions and with low production costs. They appeared through history as an essential medium of certain subcultures of the 20th century, all the way from the fans of science fiction to those of punk”. in Lara PLAVČAK, Contemporary Art Zines, Zines! Contemporary Zine Production (Ljubljana, Mednarodni grafični likovni center, 24. 2. –28. 5. 2017, ed. Božidar Zrinski), Ljubljana 2017, p. 87.