Sculpture Institute

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The Sculpture Association as the follower of the Latobia gallery was founded in 2002 as non profit organisation with the aim of helping artists to realise and promote their sculpture projects — beside presentations in their space, in the open-air location and as a guest in other institutions, it also operates in the field of the art market. It acts also as a publisher. Its members are established and young mostly Slovene sculptures.


Programme

On the sculpture oriented association operates on two locations in Ljubljana. It runs the open-air Gruber Sculpture Gallery in front of the Gruber Palace (the headquarters of the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia (ARS)), where is featuring annual at least one exhibition lasting several months. In 2009 it presented the project dLAN of Darko Golija from Maribor, where he works also as professor of sculpture at the Faculty of Education, University of Maribor. His colleague from Ljubljana the sculpturer Alen Ožbolt, head of the Department of Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, presented his latest works entitled Ensembles – Prostorski rebusi/Kamen na nebu at Gruber Sculpture Gallery in 2008.


The second venue of the Sculpture Association is on Križevniška 2. After the renovation in October 2009 this is the space for presentation of solo and group exhibitions of its members. The very first presentation of the renovated space was saleable oriented and presented graphics, paintings and sculptures created by its members. In March 2010 it exhibited sculptures from the series the Summer [Poletje] of Jiři Bezlaj. It presented also from them published monograph of Bezlaj with texts of Petja Grafenauer, Miklavž Komelj and Janko Rožič.

Beside project realized on their venues, publishing and reaserching activities the association organises other projects on national and international levels:

Projects

  • International projects

The Associaltion is official Slovene partner of the Sculpture network preparing in autumn 2010 the the exhibition European Sculpture: Diversity and Differences in Practice in Grugliasco near Torino (Italy), running also parallel to Turin art fair Artissima. Approximately 30 to 35 sculptor members of sculpture network from all over Europe and their small scale sculptures are selected by the jury consisting of Patrizia Bottallo (Curator of Martin Arte Internazionale, Italy), Miranda MacPhail (Curator of Gori collection, Italy), Auke de Vries (sculptor from Netherlands), and the curator of Georg-Kolbe-Museum in Berlin Marc Wellmann. The curatorial responsibility for the exhibition is in hands of Patrizia Bottallo (Curator of Martin Arte Internazionale, Italy) and sculptor Rob Ward from Great Britain.

  • National projects

On the national level the Association runs since 2004 the project Grosuplje – Town of sculptures [Grosuplje mesto kipov]. From 2 to 5 sculptures create in 5 days lasting workshop each year creates sculptures for public space of the town. The participants of 2005 were Boštjan Drinovec, Ervin Potočnik, Boštjan Potokar, Jurij Smole, and [[Alenka Vidrgar]; in 2008 Lučka Koščak and Matjaž Rebec sculptured in Grosuplje.

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