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Friendship and public art are two main topics, which
appear in my work.
I made models of six study colleagues and friends at the same time. I
equipped them with suitcases in which their artwork was documented and
a text which persuading the finder to return any kind of information on
the artist to the given address.
Equipped like this I let them go with the help of helium balloons, from
the backyard of the Academy of Fine Arts into the air, to the public.
Because the balloons contained helium forecast that for 24 hours they
could be blown in all directions all over Slovenia and maybe even farther.
The weather conditions, direction and intensity of the wind and other
barriers on their way, influenced the direction of the balloons. The models
could land practically anywhere on inhabited or uninhabited region.
Symbolically this could mean the passage of the studied
artists from university to the public and their destinies, which would
follow in their artistic lives. On the other hand this action could also
mean a kind of promotion for them, a new way of communication, where the
artist would comes to the visitors home and not as is usual visitor coming
in to the gallery. I wanted to communicate with this coincidental public
and get some information in return from them.
After a few days a boatman Josip from the Croatian side
of the Kolpa river contacted me and told me that he had found one of the
flying artists - Polona Lovsin in the woods and said that he was very
enthusiastic about this kind of project and that the found of that day
would always stay in his memory.
With that, I could say that the art had found its public meaning. I do
unfortunately not know the destinies of the others.
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