Matej Košir: SIZIFon

Exhibition
17-24 December 2009, Monday to Friday,
from 10 am to 3 pm
Discussion
17 December 2009 at 7 pm

SCCA Project Room, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana, Slovenia

SIZIFon will offer advice on fundraising, guidance on the operation of the art system and some tips on the individual art practices and positions.

The project deals with the situation in the fine arts sphere in Slovenia, with all its particularities which are tied to a specific form of financial dependency, political history, the number of players etc. By using an interactive audio operator IVA, the project seeks to highlight some of these particularities that lead to specific consequences of which some are more or less known and some more or less (un)favourable for individuals operating in this sphere. This of course is a personal point of view of the artist. However, the artist would like to avoid the exposure to the authorship of this project and give priority to the presentation of new a telephone service. With the aim to reach the widest circle of professionals and at the same time not emphasizing the artistic nature of the project but rather achieving a "corporate" anonymity (which actually led to the selection of the specific medium used), a promotional message will be used instead of the usual invitation intended for an art project that includes all related information.

Matej Košir

SIZIFon is supported by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana., Iskrateling, and external experts.

Matej Košir (1978, Ljubljana) completed postgraduate studies in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 2004. In the same year he participated a course at the Akademie der Bildende Künste in Munich. In 2006 and 2007 he was a researcher at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig where he specialized at the field of photography. He has been presented in a numbered independent and group exhibitions, among which we may expose a solo exhibition entitled Museum in the City Gallery of Nova Gorica and the Masterpiece at Gallery Miklova house in Ribnica in 2008. With his last exhibition he has also completed a research dedicated to the impression left in our consciousness by reproductions of world-renowned works of art. Currently he lives and works in Berlin and Škofja Loka.

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Studio 6 in 2009

In 2009, Studio 6 invited curators Petra Kapš and Božidar Zrinski, who sought out to find non-commissioned works of art, ideas, concepts and projects. SIZIFonis the third event within the program.

Studio 6 programme is supported by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and Municipality of Ljubljana. Curatorial work of Petra Kapš is supported by the City of Maribor.