At the exhibition, Domen Dimovski and Alja Košar, two Slovenian visual artists who work primarily in the field of graphics, present the continuation of their project Two Worlds, One Landscape. The third edition of their joint exhibition once again demonstrates the artists’ unique creative process and mutual cooperation. Although very different, their works share numerous similarities, as both artists draw from and combine only primary artistic elements, offering us an insight into the world of abstraction, which allows more freedom in the perception and interpretation of the images they create. The exhibited works include an animation, which unites their work through connecting elements that are common to both artists, but at the same time diverse. With this joint work, they engage with the sphere of digital graphics, providing an additional sketch of the way of thinking adopted when creating graphics.

The creative work of Alja Košar starts from a primary artistic element, the dot, which forms the basis of her artistic expression. The dot is a static element that brings a touch of the primordial to her works. Despite the fact that she has been expressing herself with dots since her student years, and although the dot is not an inherently dynamic element, Alja achieves dynamism by combining, condensing and layering dots, enhanced with lines and surfaces. The works express perfectionism and minimalism, which conveys us into the world of dots. The artist subtly infuses colour into her minimalistic abstract forms, providing an emotional charge when observing these virtual landscapes. The world of dots and lines with which Alja expresses herself empowers her to transfer her feelings about society, the landscape and current issues to a matrix, and subsequently to graphic paper, which is how her works touch us. The expressiveness of the line and the dot, elements that are constantly at play in her works, is never boring, as it evokes in us not only the deepest feelings, but also unique associations with society and the world around us.

Domen Dimovski is much more expressive and relaxed in his artistic expression. He creates graphics mainly through lines and surfaces, which offer freedom of artistic expression. The line is the primary element of his works. It is through the line that the artist expresses his feelings, which are enhanced with the use of colour. In some places, the relaxed lines give the impression of a game of gestures reminiscent of childhood mischievousness, thus returning to a display of primordiality and primacy. The graphics are dynamic, as clear straight strokes intertwine with relaxed curved lines, enabling the artist to achieve a great deal of mobility in his work. He expresses his feelings regarding current social problems with expressive gestures that create a tangle of feelings, leading us to the world of his own abstraction.

Both artists convey us to a field of abstraction that arouses associations with diverse landscapes. These can only be aerial views of cities and fertile fields, where the furrows of modern society are outlined. What the two artists have in common is the use of basic artistic elements, which they combine into aggregates of dots or lines, while the use of colour draws everything together in a game of artistic expression. Thus, they reveal to us their feelings and perceptions of the world, which we discover through a view of abstract landscapes.

Curator: Doroteja Kotnik

The exhibition has been prepared in cooperation with the Ljubljana Fine Artists Society.

Admission free.