Syndicate: The nobilitation of the material

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Darko Golija
"The nobilitation of the material"

online exhibition  / Statuary
http://www2.arnes.si/~medianox
June 15 - July 15, 1998


"Art is as sublime as divinity, as inexplicable as life, independent
to definitions, and without any intention. A work of art rises through
the artistic evaluation of its elements. I by myself am only aware of
the way I create it, and the medium I bear inside is the only thing I
know, without knowing the final intention," this is what Kurt
Schwiters said nearly eighty years age. After the concept of mimesis
as the key concept in the history of art has been substituted by
unmimetic artistic practices, an endless space for interpretations and
records, associations and symbolic as well as for analysis of pure
forms and materials opened up. The syntagmas of Schwiters are to a
great extent true for the sculptural projects, constructions and
installations of the sculptor Darko Golija which at first sight often
are an amorphic symbiosis of the material and ideas but in the same
time they are also full of submeanings, nobilitations of apparently
obscure materials and their transformation to physical and
metaphysical meanings. The materialization of THE CLOUD as a
transsubstantiation of the modern apotheosis and the epiphany of the
civilization at the end of the XXth century which sometimes serves
also with an artistic, installation - technical interpretation of its
origin; THE LINE as a sort of an artistic ECG of this civilization and
art; the archeotype  POSITION OF SUCTION and the monumentaly trivial
TONKA'S HOUSE are only a few examples which bear witness to an
expressive authorial artistic optics which is anchored in the modern
and also in the postmodern period. Golija possesses a full arsenal of
esthetic experiences of the sculptural form, and beside the
imaginativity in his realization of specific onthologic and
epistemologic extensions of the sculptural media he distinguishes
himself also by his distinctive poetics and a soft nearly not
self-conscious ironic note.
                                                  (by Peter Rak)

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