Projects of co-workers
That's Doodles!
Exhibition

March 15-April 5, 2013
City Gallery Nova Gorica, Trg Edvarda Kardelja 5
Opening: Friday, March 15, at 7pm

We would like to inform you about the project of our co-worker Saša Nabergoj, head of the World of Art school for curators and critics and the Studio 6 program.

That’s Doodles!

Artists: Milan Erič, Mina Fina, Saša Kerkoš, Damijan Kracina, Lojze Logar, Erik Mavrič, Anja Medved, Miha Perne, Leon Zuodar
Animated Doodles: Students of School of Arts University of Nova Gorica

Curator: Saša Nabergoj
Assistant: Simona Žvanut

The way it all came about…

"These drawings are not studies – they were never meant to be end products. They are ephemeral, imperfect scribbles artists draw while talking on the phone or sitting in a meeting, unpremeditated and intuitive. They can never be described as turning out well or badly; actually, they are never failures because from the outset, success has never been their goal. They are merely traces of an intuitive process.

This is what fascinated me when investigating doodles; their possible forms, the artists’ attitude towards them - the artists I began to seek out to expand my little Novo Mesto show - and the relation between the intuitive and the planned in art… And what is more: How to put on view something that has not been produced with a public presentation in a gallery in mind? How to talk the artists into putting aside their (unquestionably wonderful) artists’ books and showing me their notes instead – and the doodles on them? And what to do about that part of the production of doodles that is – in correspondence with its value (or rather, lack thereof) – not kept but discarded?

Now what?

These were the questions I had to delve even more deeply when I took my search for doodlers a step further, prompted by my intent to add new depth and dimension to the whole story for the Nova Gorica show. This exhibition presents the doodling output of nine artists of different generations and creative points of departure. There could be many more, of course, but I decided on a combination of diverse artistic approaches and processes in keeping with the exhibition venue."

excerpt from the curatorial text by Saša Nabergoj

Nova Gorica City Gallery

The gallery is open:

• Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.,
• Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon. Closed on Sundays.

Saša Nabergoj works as a curator, writer, editor and lecturer in the field of contemporary art.
She studied art history at the University of Ljubljana. She is an assistant director at the SCCA, the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Ljubljana, which is a non-profit production, research and educational organisation. Its main objective is to produce, encourage and communicate innovative artistic and interpretative practices and to link them internationally. The centre provides those engaged in contemporary art (artists, curators, theoreticians, critics, and public) with knowledge, tools and skills for independent and expressive performance in the world of art. She works as the head of World of Art, a school for curators and contemporary art critics, which is the only programme in Slovenia - and Central, Eastern and Southern Europe - intended for practical and theoretical education in the field of contemporary art. She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) in Paris and the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art (IKT) in Amsterdam.

[Published March 8, 2013]