Lost in the woods
Digital image- Thu 19.May @ 11:00 - 5/8/16 23:00
- Fri 20.May @ 11:00 - 5/8/16 23:00
- Sat 21.May @ 11:00 - 5/8/16 23:00
- Sun 22.May @ 11:00 - 5/8/16 23:00
In the project LOST IN THE WOODS I place myself as a magical being – a gnome in a constructed world with elements of consumerism, advertising, internet and social networks. The work deals with the topic of escapism and the relationship between real and virtual constructed world. The all-embracing presence of Internet and advertisements changes how we think, feel and live and makes us easily mix what is real and what virtual. The project is adopting fairytale iconography and transforms it. It stands for an alternative world in which one can escape, when dealing with the issues of contemporary everyday life gets too exhausting. Escaping in a constructed fairytale character enables to hide and avoid the problems and anxieties of a real world. Even though the prints are in a way a cry for a better world, they are a response to apathy or awareness, that an average person has almost no influence on changing it, since the problems lie in the hand of corporations and the system. They are a naive call for a happy reality, which can be found in an alternative fairytale world, and for which we would wish in reality.
ARTISTS
Gašper Kunšič (AT)
Gašper Kunšič is a Slovenian-born, Vienna-based visual artist, working in the fields of painting, installation, video and print media. He graduated with a BFA degree in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana and currently studies in the class for Transmedia Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He was nominated for the ESSL ART AWARD CEE 2015 and has exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova in Ljubljana, as well as participated in the 3rd Triennial of Young Artists – PREMIERE 2015 in the Gallery of Contemporary Arts, Celje. He presented his performances in Künstlerhaus Vienna. He was a recipient of the Zois scholarship for talented students from 2007- 2015 and won the award of Academy of Fine Arts and Design Ljubljana in 2015 as well as First prize for poetry, from Magazine Mladika in Trieste in 2013.