Robert Černelč // Interspaces
Exhibition Catalogue
Academic painter and director Robert Černelč successfully, and above all analytically and systematically, combines the mediums of painting, video art, and film in his artistic practice. He further extends his work into the fields of video art, scenography, and screenwriting.
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Robert Černelč is a versatile visual artist drawn to moving images that articulate the problems of contemporary perception. His works of recent years stem from the deconstruction of film. He explores the idea of how to reconstruct, in a painting, a specific cinematic moment suspended in anticipation – one that comes from outside, from a space not depicted in the image yet implicitly present.
Siegfried Kracauer observed that films know something we do not, and that within them something is hidden that can be uncovered. It is from this standpoint that the relationship between viewer and image emerges – unstable and unpredictable, and this is precisely what interests the artist most.
In his latest paintings, the motifs of waiting, observing, standing still, and gazing take centre stage – states of paused or redirected attention, fragmented across multiple “screens” in the post-digital age. He is not interested in pixelation, but in entering the digital innards of the image, where concreteness is rendered as abstract information.
Exhibition duration: 29 February–5 May 2024
Published by: Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana / City Art Gallery Ljubljana
For the publisher: Blaž Peršin
For the City Art Gallery Ljubljana: Barbara Sterle Vurnik
Catalogue editor: Sarival Sosič
Texts: Oskar Ban Brejc, Dr. Nataša Smolič, Sarival Sosič
English translation: Veronika Fürst Ažman
Slovene language editing: Mirjam Furlan Lapanja
Photography: Boj Nuvak, Jaka Žilavec, Robert Černelč, Blaž Gutman (exhibition works and opening)
Documentation: Artist’s archive
Design and layout: Aleš Brce
Print: Formatisk d. o. o., Ljubljana
Print run: 300
March 2024
Number of pages: 160
ISBN: 978-961-6969-58-1