Sanje od Sanje

Ce mois-ci, nous avons travaillé à la galerie K18 avec la jeune artiste, illustratrice Sanje Zamuda, étudiante à Ljubljana.
Son travail est divers et varié. Elle ne travaille pas uniquement sur l'illustration papier. En effet, elle représente bien le large panel que le monde de l'illustration englobe. Elle travaille autour divers supports, tels que le papier/dessin, la peinture, la video d'animation et l'impression sur carton. L'univers de Sanja ne s'arrête pas aux formalités habituelles de l'illustration. Elle puise ses idées dans ses expériences et ses rêves pour en faire sortir toute la puissance et poser sur papier, video et créer des oeuvres fortes de sens.
Ses oeuvres, sont assez vivantes et mettent en avant la joie de vivre de l'artiste, aussi bien dans ses dessins que dans ses films d'animations.


This month, we worked at gallery K18 with the young artist, illustrator Sanje Zamuda, student in Ljubljana. Her work is diverse and various. She is not working only on the paper illustration. Indeed, she represents well the wide range that spans the world of illustration. She works on differents media, like paper/draws, painting, animation and printing on cardboard. The Sanja's universe does not stop with the usual formalities of illustration. She draws her ideas from her experiences and her dreams to throw out all the power and put it on paper, video and creating strong works of meaning.
Her works, are quite lively and highlight the "joie de vivre" of the artist, as well in her drawings and in animation films.

Clem

And what about April !

 
    In french we said : Avril, ne te découvre pas d'un fil. That could be translated by Stay fully clothed in April. Indeed, in Slovenia, April rhymes with air flow, winter rain and momentary gleams. 
We passed our month to work on the exhibition of Laura Ličer at the Galery K18, we also started to work more seriously to work on our EVS project and we traveled when we had free time. 

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    This month the gallery K18 received the work of an slovenian artist, Laura Ličer, she works on illustrations. The artist paintings are between painting and illustration. The artist presents a world full of imaginary pictures and magical which hide sometimes the harsh reality : the violence of the life and her cruelty. The accumulation of drawing and colour, makes her work hypnotic. Her work arouses as the same time the world of a child who would grown too fast. By using this bright colour, her paintings are also decorative and plastic art work. 

    We work on the establishment of her works in the gallery and we tried to make the best possible her works appreciable. We met the artist one day before the opening and she started working on the establishment immediately. 

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    We started to work this month on our own EVS project. We just work on it more seriously, because until now it was just some ideas who needed to be put in form.
We decided to work together and to organize a collective exhibition in the gallery K18. We talked a lot about the subject/thema and about the way we would like to work : in collelctif, times for workshop where we could share our experiences around discussions… In one side we have Jade's works, the artist who desire to exhibit her works. And in other side, Clementine the coordinator and curator of the project. She will lead the exhibition. 

    What it taken a lot of time it was the redaction of the call for artist because we didn't know yet for who we will send it. And for us it was the first time that we did this.  
        Collaborative work is also new for us. We learned to listen each others and we also learn to make compromises. But at the end we worked well together and our differences move the project forward. 
The Open call written, we just need to send it. We are currently in contact with slovenians artists and other eves who want to participate at the exhibition.


Jade

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The day of change / Dan za spremembe

 
      In some organisations in Maribor: Saturday 5th April 2014, is a day of changement.
I went with a colleague and a cameraman to interview those organisations: What are you doing today? What means the changement for you?
We went in a retirement home, people planted trees in the garden. After, we visited an space where people cleaned to have a best environnememt. We went inside the building to eat pancakes :)
We can talk more about Infopeka, because there was also a lot of activities: clean the garden in common with Gustaf to install some furniture outside. Then, we did some seeds balls to throw them in the city. It was cool to discover other part, quarter of Maribor.
There was also, seams workshops with clothes recycled, to do bags, news clothes,...
Also, children had workshops for them: making workshops of puppets and toys coming from the goods.

It was really a good day, to allow changements and creation of people.


Clem

What is under your mask...

    Sara is a young graduated Slovenian artist.
"What is under your mask" will be the first in a series of exhibitions which will present illustrations. It's also the first exhibition of the artist. She studied art pedagogy at the faculty of Maribor. She presents her illustrations which is the most important in her work. She works only in black and white with ink or with pens. Her illustrations include images of people and animals. We can recognize her family or some of famous people who are in our occidental culture.
    She is inspired by fashion illustrations and by characters from cartoons. We can notice that all the characters have the large eyes. It's a distincive sign of the artist. She also works with text and uses it with humorous. Her illustrations are as the same time for an adult public: there is a critical view, she appropriates the characters and she shows us them under her point of view. She also uses cynicism. And young people are also touched by the characters like Batman, or Harry Potter.
    In her project with the small suitcase "What is under your mask" it is a critical against people we know because they are famous or because they are just in news paper but who are they in reality ? Do we know them for real ? She invites public to hide faces of people on news papers put on the wall of the gallery.  She has already created buffers for this project. Buffers represent masks known, as: Hannibal, Pussy riot, Scream...

What i like in her work c'est qu'elle s'intéresse aux nouvelles icônes de notre génération à la manière d'un enfant. Elle utilise des techniques plutôt simples mais qui cachent un réel engagement de vouloir faire tomber les masques. De son point de vue elle revisite les images classiques contemporaines qui font échos à notre culture de l'image. Ce travail à la fois personnel, (on reconnait ses soeurs et ses amis) divulgue un imaginaire qui peut être entendu et interpréter par toutes les générations.

Jade

Life, etc...

    Two months ago, we arrived in Slovenia at Maribor at Infopeka for our European Voluntary Service. We took time to discover Maribor city and all the possibilities to work at INFOPEKA. The team explained us all the workshops and we were invited to discuss with the others volunteers about their projects. We learned to work with the group of Pekarna Dobis Das and started to know the children. We took photos also for Stopinje Mesta during the walk of the churchs. We assisted at our first Pekarna Potopisti during the meeting about Palestina and thanks it was in English !!

We started this week to work at the gallery K18 with a young slovenian artist. We helped her to install her work and we participated at the openning. And now we stay every two days to make the permanence of the gallery.

We have many ideas for our own projects and we would like to do an exhibition together at K18. But we have to discuss and make clear our ideas. The best would be that we could invite slovenian artists wich could expose with me under a same topic, theme.

To be continued...

Jade

Our first trip in Slovenia

  During one week, with Jade we went outside Maribor to go 4 days in Bled and 3 in Ljubljana.

We went to Bled to do a training with all the volunteers in Slovenia, it was really cool to meet new people of different nationalities. Thanks to this training we are able to discover news cities: Bled and also Radovlicja.  These are very beautiful and typical. People were so nice with us, because one day, we had to realize a project with local Slovenian.
We enjoyed this travel because the weather was so good.

After this first time in Bled we went to discover the capital: LJUBLJANA!
This city is so cute, i love it.
I liked the city center with the triple bridge and people in terraces enjoying the weather. We did the same thing and we also walked a lot.
We went to Tivoli Park to see this wonderful park and an exhibition in the international center of graphics art. There was an exhibition of Janez Janša, a famous contemporary artist in Slovenia ( actually a group of 3 artists).

Then, friday we went at Metelkova, an obligation for us coming from Maribor and working in the same kind of place. We went with volunteers that we met in Bled. It was a great experience, there was a lot of people. We danced until the end of the night :)
Saturday, we enjoyed the city, to discover news districts. We spend a good time in terrace.
Sunday, our last day, we went at the flea market. Then we met others volunteers to do a pic-nic in Tivoli Park.
After this super week, it was time for us to come back at home, in Maribor!


Clem

 Go to Bled with sunshine 

 Bled lake by boat

Ljubljana fruit market 

 Janez Janša art project

The international center of graphics art 

Flea market

Metelkova 

Pekarna Dobiš Daš

Monday 17 February  

We participated at our first workshop with Dobiš Daš group. Volunteers prepared several sciences experiences for children.


In MISC Infopeka for two hours, we turned into a beguiling world of scents, colours, experiments and actions-reactions.

We had a fun! :)

Table ronde / What about experience ? 

Les trompettes de Belleville / Sound of straws 

Tout ce qu'on peut faire avec un choux / What you can do with a cabbage

Les belles couleurs / Beautiful colours

Un trombone à la mer / A trombone to the sea 

La naissance de l'éléphant / Have you already seen a pink elephant trunk

Filmopeka

    Every Monday in Infopeka there is a cinema session. Where we can watch a lot of movies : Pulp Fiction, Arold & Maud, Old Boy...
For february the theme was silent movies. We've seen Charlie Chaplin's movies : City light, Modern Times and the Great dictator, since we arrived.
After watching movies we go to discuss about what we've seen, our impression,feelings, in a Pub near Infopeka. It's a good way to meet slovenian:)

we need this card to be a regular spectator

For March we would like to show french movies. We make a selection in chronological order.
 Jeux Interdits 1951 (Forbidden Games), the second is Un Singe en Hiver 1962 (Monkey in Winter), the third is La vie est un long fleuve tranquille 1988 (Life is a long quiet river), the fourth is La Haine 1995 (Hate), and the last one is 8 femmes 2007 (8 Women).



Jeux interdits : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPilhgUl3oA 

Un singe en hiver :  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5-S20PTkgM

La haine : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk77VrkxL88

8 femmes : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRczOO2iCuo

Gallery K18 - Keisuke Oki

    We discovered gallery K18 : in this gallery there is the residence program of Infopeka. They invite international artists to expose their works. Numerous exhibitions throughout the year offer the possibility to various artists of various ages and artistic backgrounds to present their work. It gives the opportunity to artists who have just begun their career to have their own exhibition.

Maybe we will participate at setting up exhibitions, cultural events.

    This time they receive Keisuke Oki who is a Japanes Artist. He works and lives in Tokyo. His art work uses new media and music. Mostly his concerns are the transformation of human body and conscious in the technological society. As a musician, he covers various musical fields including experimental electronic music, electronica, jazz and ancient chinese/japanese music.

He participated at the Computer Art Festival (IFCA) in Slovenia in 2012. 

Gallery K18 : 

https://www.facebook.com/galerijaK18

Keisuke Oki :

http://homepage3.nifty.com/oob/ 

First time

    We decided to make a blog to translate our experience in the European Voluntary Service and what is our feeling about Slovenia, Maribor, INFOPEKA... our expectations what will work and our difficulties.

Maribor seems to be a quiet little city. A bridge separates INFOPEKA to the center of Maribor but the organisation stays close to the city. INFOPEKA is also integrated in the life style of Maribor.

People seems to be curious and the volunteers question us about France and they wonder why we chose to come to Maribor. They are attached to their city and they want to make it better and also accessible to foreigners. We can feel how they stand together.

When we arrived there was snow, we were not used because we came from Paris where there was sunny, but few days after the snow has melted. We have impression that the weather change quickly :)

INFOPEKA : http://www.infopeka.org/web/

First impression...

Library : Tete Rose

    Tete Rose means Aunt Rosa. It's a library where we can find only books about: revolution, freddom, anti mondialisation, etc. It will be available a socially committed literature, rebellious and radical, which is more difficult, is that you can't find this type of book in other libraries of Maribor.

  Rosa means Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919). She was a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and revolutionary socialist of Polish Jewish descent who became a naturalized German citizen. She represents well the idea of revolutionary and that's why they choose her picture.

    Our first work at INFOPEKA was to improve library. We organised books in alphabetical order by reporting their position by a marking. Which allows a better use for people.

Library Tete Rose : http://www.knjiznicateterose.org/

The Giirls :

    Here I am in Slovenia for my European Voluntary Service. I come from the suburb of Paris and i had finished my studies of Plastic Arts. It means that i am a created person who needs experience in art work.
That is why i choose to come to Maribor in INFOPEKA association for my European Voluntary Sservice. Because they have a gallery of art called K18 where they receive international artists.
INFOPEKA propose also others missions for volonteers. That is my state of mind when i leave Paris and my family.

Jade, the artist.

Jazz Club Stachmo

    I'm also in Slovenia for an European Voluntary Service experience. I'm a french girl ( from Nantes) who like art, culture and cinema. I studied curatoring, to organize exhibitions in art center, museum.
After more reflexions I decided to come to Slovenia to discover a new culture and new country. At INFOPEKA to propose my own events and participate at cultural projects as what I studied in France and to have a new experience in a foreign country.

Clem, the curator.