“His talent lies in the perception of objects not just within their own context, but in dissecting them in their visual appearance, dividing the semantic framework from any kind of formal perception and viewing it in isolation instead.”
Robert Klanten, Editor-in-chief of Die Gestalten Verlag in Berlin
The Fifth Element overview photographic exhibition is slovanian photographer Marko Modic’s mid-career retrospective, bringing a refined and conceptual curatorial selection of photographs and photomontages, taken from his vast oeuvre which has been accumulating over the last three decades. The fifth element is present in all of the series grouped around the four elements. It is apparently invisible, seamlessly integrated, yet it calls into question their identity: as a result of both intense abstracting and the previewed photomontages, the line between pure photography and photomontage is sometimes completely blurred. It might be said that this is the aim of the exhibition: to invite viewers to enter the artist’s widely imaginative and, quite often, surrealist world which originates in his ability to find magic in the most obscure details of everyday phenomena.
The exhibition has been curated by Marija Skočir, the curator and art gallery director of Jakopič Gallery in Ljubljana, where the exhibition is on display until April 26th, 2015. In the past few years the exhibitions of Roger Ballen, Lee Miller, Magnum’s First, Josef Koudelka and others have been presented there.
EXHIBITION
Marko Modic, The Fifth Element
From 24 February until 26 April 2015
Jakopič Gallery
Slovenska cesta 9
Ljubljana
Slovenia
T : 01/2412 -500
[email protected]
http://www.mgml.si/en/jakopic-gallery
BOOK
Marko Modic, The Fifth Element
192 pages, printed on GardaPat paper
hardback
105 reproductions of photographs
