Joni: Bosonogi poklon

𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐢: 𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐠𝐢 𝐩𝐨𝐤𝐥𝐨𝐧
4. 9.–9. 10. 2025
Galerija Kresija

📌𝐎𝐝𝐩𝐫𝐭𝐣𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐯𝐞: 𝐜̌𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐤, 𝟒. 𝟗. 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓, 𝐨𝐛 𝟏𝟖. 𝐮𝐫𝐢

𝐒𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐋𝐉𝐄𝐕𝐀𝐋𝐍𝐀 𝐃𝐎𝐆𝐎𝐃𝐊𝐀:
-Pesniški dialog z Miklavžem Komeljem: ponedeljek, 8. 9. 2025, ob 17. uri
-Tiha kontemplacija z Joni in Saro Li ob čaju: četrtek, 9. 10. 2025, od 15. do 18. ure

Razstava slikarke Joni z naslovom Bosonogi poklon v Galeriji Kresija predstavlja devet oljnih slik na platnu različnih formatov, ki jih je umetnica naslikala v zadnjih treh letih. Te slike odpirajo reprezentativen pogled v današnjo stopnjo njenega ustvarjalnega procesa, za katerega pa je ves čas značilno, da evocira soobstoj sedanjosti, preteklosti in prihodnosti; v tem je njegova so-dobnost. Temeljni odnos, s katerim Joni pristopa k slikarstvu, je odnos posvečenosti. Sama govori o obredu, v katerem nastaja slika, govori celo o darovanju na oltar slike. To pa ne pomeni malikovanja slike in slikarstva, ampak, ravno nasprotno, nakazuje, da slikarka razume sliko kot vpetost v proces življenja; nanašanje slik na naravo razume kot udeleženost v energijah same narave, ne kot imitiranje pojavnosti vegetacije ali vodnih valovanj, ampak kot poskus napajanja z njenimi prerajajočimi se energijami, ki so na delu v vegetaciji ali vodnih valovanjih. Umetničin opus nastaja kot kontinuum, kot nepretrgana vizualna meditacija, v katerem je njen fokus vedno sámo videnje v razmerju z nevidnim. Njene slike niso izvzete iz toka vizualnosti, ki jih obdaja, ampak predstavljajo polja posebne koncentracije, ki nam omogočajo, da se na nov način zavedamo dogajanj v vidnem v razmerju z nevidnim, tudi ko se od njenih slik spet obrnemo drugam – kajti to, kar nam je pokazala, se nadaljuje povsod.
(Miklavž Komelj)

𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐢 𝐙𝐚𝐤𝐨𝐧𝐣𝐬̌𝐞𝐤 se je rodila z začetkom jeseni 1974 na Primorskem, po gimnaziji preživela dve leti v Londonu in na Whitechapel Art School končala Foundation Course of Art, nato pa leta 2003 z delom, naslovljenim »Krajina kot področje duha«, diplomirala pri profesorjih Emeriku Bernardu in Marku Uršiču na Akademiji za likovno umetnost v Ljubljani. Od leta 2004 je samostojna likovna ustvarjalka. Po desetletju bivanja nad dolino Dragonje in v drugih primorskih vaseh zdaj živi v Beli krajini.

Slika: Joni, Ganešev gozd, Velika sela, Piran, jesen 2022–poletje 2025, olje na platnu, 110 x 180 cm
Foto: Jaka Jeraša
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𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐢: 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞
4. 9.–9. 10. 2025
Kresija Gallery

📌𝐄𝐱𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟒 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓, 𝟔 𝐩𝐦

𝐀𝐂𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐀𝐍𝐘𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒:
-Poetic dialogue between painting and poetry with Miklavž Komelj: Monday, 8 September 2025, 5 pm
-Quiet contemplation of the exhibition with Joni and Sara Li over tea: Thursday, 9 October 2025, 3 pm–6 pm

Barefoot Tribute, an exhibition by Joni at the Kresija Gallery, features nine oil paintings on canvas in various formats, created by the artist over the past three years. These paintings provide a representative insight into the current stage of her creative process, which has always been known to evoke the coexistence of the present, the past, and the future; therein lies its con-temporaneity. The fundamental disposition with which Joni approaches painting is one of devotion. She herself speaks of the ritual of creating a painting, or even making an offering at the altar of painting. This is not to idolise a particular painting or painting as art, but, on the contrary, it suggests that the artist understands painting as an engagement with the process of life; she understands the referral of paintings to nature as participation in the energies of nature itself; not as an imitation of the appearance of vegetation or water ripples, but as an attempt to feed on its regenerative energies at work in the vegetation or water ripples. The artist’s oeuvre is being built as a continuum, a perpetual visual meditation in which her focus is always on the seeing per se in relation to the invisible. Her paintings are not exempt from the flow of visuality that surrounds them; they are fields of extraordinary absorption that allow one to become aware in a new way of what is happening in the visible in relation to the invisible, even when one turns away from her paintings – because what she has shown us continues everywhere.
(Miklavž Komelj)

𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐢 𝐙𝐚𝐤𝐨𝐧𝐣𝐬̌𝐞𝐤 was born in Primorska, Slovenia, at the dawn of autumn in 1974. After high school, she spent two years in London, completing the Foundation Course of Art at Whitechapel Art School, before moving back and graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 2003 with a work entitled ‘Landscape as a Spiritual Realm’, under the supervision of Professors Emerik Bernard and Marko Uršič. Since 2004, she has worked as a freelance artist. After a decade of living above the Dragonja valley and in other villages of the Primorska region, she now lives in Bela Krajina.

Painting: Joni, Ganesha’s Forest, Velika sela, Piran, autumn 2022–summer 2025, oil on canvas, 110 x 180 cm
Photo: Jaka Jeraša