Spekter. 70 Years of the UGM Collection
Just like a work of art is a composition of multiple elements niftily combined and confronted in harmonies that their authors concocted implementing their skills and tools, so an exhibition is an art form in and of itself, and its design is subject to principles not unlike those that shape an artwork 鈥� where works of art are the constituent elements of the conglomerate of the whole. The new major exhibition at the UGM | Maribor Art Gallery opens up a spectrum of views, positions, and forms, both within the artworks from the UGM Collection and in the art of exhibition-making as such.
鈥淟et the cobbler stick to his last. I am not an art historian, but a product designer, so as the author of the exhibition I turned in the first place to the formal elements 鈥� colours, textures and forms 鈥�, the criteria that by definition are in my professional domain. The common thread that runs through the exhibition, from the selection of artworks and their presentation, spatial interventions (wall paint, wallpaper, drapes, framing and hanging strategies), is to challenge the idea of standard.鈥� 鈥� David Tav膷ar
In the year marking our 70th anniversary, the UGM | Maribor Art Gallery invites you to come see the new hanging of our collection. The new temporary display was created by the designer David Tav膷ar, who over the past year combed through the museum鈥檚 collection to select over 270 works of art featured in the exhibition, some iconic, some lesser known and others shown to the public for the very first time, and arranged them across seven rooms and two halls into a singular, vibrant experience.
Since its establishment in 1954, the UGM | Maribor Art Gallery had been synonymous with the palace at Strossmayerjeva ulica, a great house, however not spacious enough to simultaneously accommodate both a permanent hanging of the collection and large temporary exhibitions. For a number of years, we have tackled this challenge by setting up temporary exhibitions of the UGM Collection in ever new constellations of works and in varying manners of display, so as to offer a new perspective on our collection and the history of 20th-century art in the city, region, and Slovenia.
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Just like a work of art is a composition of multiple elements niftily combined and confronted in harmonies that their authors concocted implementing their skills and tools, so an exhibition is an art form in and of itself, and its design is subject to principles not unlike those that shape an artwork 鈥� where works of art are the constituent elements of the conglomerate of the whole. The new major exhibition at the UGM | Maribor Art Gallery opens up a spectrum of views, positions, and forms, both within the artworks from the UGM Collection and in the art of exhibition-making as such.
鈥淟et the cobbler stick to his last. I am not an art historian, but a product designer, so as the author of the exhibition I turned in the first place to the formal elements 鈥� colours, textures and forms 鈥�, the criteria that by definition are in my professional domain. The common thread that runs through the exhibition, from the selection of artworks and their presentation, spatial interventions (wall paint, wallpaper, drapes, framing and hanging strategies), is to challenge the idea of standard.鈥� 鈥� David Tav膷ar
In the year marking our 70th anniversary, the UGM | Maribor Art Gallery invites you to come see the new hanging of our collection. The new temporary display was created by the designer David Tav膷ar, who over the past year combed through the museum鈥檚 collection to select over 270 works of art featured in the exhibition, some iconic, some lesser known and others shown to the public for the very first time, and arranged them across seven rooms and two halls into a singular, vibrant experience.
Since its establishment in 1954, the UGM | Maribor Art Gallery had been synonymous with the palace at Strossmayerjeva ulica, a great house, however not spacious enough to simultaneously accommodate both a permanent hanging of the collection and large temporary exhibitions. For a number of years, we have tackled this challenge by setting up temporary exhibitions of the UGM Collection in ever new constellations of works and in varying manners of display, so as to offer a new perspective on our collection and the history of 20th-century art in the city, region, and Slovenia.
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