Uroš Potočnik – VEDUTE: ZGODOVINA IN KONTROLIRANO NASILJE

Uroš Potočnik
VEDUTE: ZGODOVINA IN KONTROLIRANO NASILJE

Galerija P74
sreda, 20.8.2025, 19h – 21h

>Vljudno vabljeni na ogled razstave Uroša Potočnika v Galerijo P74, v sredo, 20. avgusta 2025 med 19.00 in 21.00 uro.
Z ekskluzivnim enodnevnim dogodkom zaključujemo poletni premor v galeriji in odpiramo jesensko razstavno sezono Zavoda P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E.

Kar gledamo, so reprezentacije grajskih vedut–razvalin, ki odzvanjajo na dekorativnem ozadju. Vedute se skušajo navidezno materializirati v tridimenzionalno obliko skozi iluzionistično prostorsko deformacijo slikarskega nosilca, a žal neuspešno. Zgodovina ostane dvodimenzionalna, zamrznjena in potopljena v svetlobna dogajanja med centrom in periferijo slike. S tem namigujem na spečo, pozabljeno zgodovino, ki se je neprestano manipulira, deformira in podreja reinterpretaciji za potrebe domače porabe in velikih finančnih sil tihega ozadja. Zgodovina je postala dekor, sprevrnjena v estetski ornament za potrebe politike, financ in lažnega človekoljubja.

Na slikah, kjer so predstavljene moške figure ob vadbi mešanih borilnih veščin, postavljenih v interier z nadnaravno svetlobo, predstavljajo kontrolirano nasilje. Tekstura, tako materialna kot naslikana, ki se razteza na površju slik, namiguje na dotik oziroma spodbuja gledalca k dotiku. Sama tekstura podpira dotik, ki je prisoten v dejanju vadbe borilnih veščin. Sprašujem se, ali niso ravno neprestane, zaporedne vojne, ki divjajo po svetu, pravzaprav posledica kontroliranega nasilja, ki ga poganjajo močna, a tiha finančna ozadja.

Še vedno obstaja nevarnost, da se kontrolirano nasilje izmakne ideji marionete in se preprosto izmakne kontroli ter svet sprevrže v barbarstvo. Barbarstvo, v katerem padejo vse norme in standardi, ki smo jih sprejeli po drugi svetovni vojni.
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Uroš Potočnik
VEDUTAS: HISTORY AND CONTROLLED VIOLENCE

P74 Gallery
Wednesday, 20. August 2025, 7pm. – 9pm

>You are cordially invited to attend the opening of the exhibition by Uroš Potočnik on Wednesday, 20 August 2025, between 7pm and 9pm at the P74 Gallery in Ljubljana.
With this exclusive one-day event, we are ending the summer break at the gallery and opening the fall exhibition season of the Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E.

We are looking at representations of castle vedutas – ruins resonating against a decorative background. They are trying to materialise into a three-dimensional form through the illusionistic spatial deformation of the canvas, but unfortunately fail to do so. History remains two-dimensional, frozen, and immersed in the lighting events between the painting’s centre and periphery. By this, I wish to allude to a sleeping, forgotten history that is constantly manipulated, deformed, and subjected to reinterpretation for the needs of domestic consumption and large financial forces of the silent background. History has become a decor turned into an aesthetic ornament for the needs of politics, finance, and fake philanthropy.

The paintings that show male figures practising mixed martial arts, placed in an interior of supernatural light, represent controlled violence. The material and painted texture that extends across the surface of the paintings suggests touch, or rather, encourages the viewer to touch it. The texture supports the touch present in the act of practising martial arts. I wonder if the continuous, successive wars that are raging around the world are not actually the result of controlled violence, driven by powerful but silent financial backgrounds.

However, controlled violence can at some point cease to be mere puppet and can simply get out of control, thus turning the world into barbarism in which all the norms and standards that we have accepted after the Second World War will shatter to pieces.
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Program Zavoda P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. podpirata Ministrstvo za kulturo RS in MOL, Oddelek za kulturo.
Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. je član ASOCIACIJE – društvo nevladnih organizacij in samostojnih ustvarjalcev na področju kulture in umetnosti.

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Center in Galerija P74, TPB 1, 1000 Ljubljana
www.zavod-parasite.si
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