Vesna Bukovec

Vojna in mi(r)

Exhibition: Vojna in mi(r) (War and Us/War and Peace)
Venue: Hiša kulture Pivka, Pivka, SI
Date of woodcut workshop: May 30 – June 2, 2016
Date of exhibition: June 3 – 24, 2016
Opening: June 3, 2016, at 7 pm

Participating artists: Vesna Bukovec, Neža Jurman, Simon Kocjančič, Erik Mavrič, Nika Rupnik, Leon Zuodar

Curator: Mojca Grmek, SI

Vojna in mi(r) is a project of Hiša kulture v Pivki (House of culture in Pivka). It includes a graphic workshop, an exhibition of the works and the accompanying program for children. Hiša kulture v Pivki will open its graphic studio for the invited artists. They will participate on a 3-day workshop in woodcut, led by artist Leon Zuodar. The works will be presented in a group exhibition curated by Mojca Grmek. During the exhibition accompanying program for children will be organized under the guidance of painter and teacher Tanja Milharčič.

The title Vojna in mi(r) is a word pun in Slovene language and translates into two meanings that can’t be written together in the same way in English: War and Us/War and Peace. As the title suggests, the idea for the project refers to Tolstoy’s novel War and Peace, which talks about Russian society during the Napoleonic wars. Similarly, the project War and Us/War and Peace addresses the global problems of war and their impact on social life in the local environment, i.e. in Slovenia. The time frame of the project is determined by the impact of wars on the generation of 1975-95. This influence starts with World War II through the lives of our parents and grandparents and extends to the Cold War and the wars that followed the disintegration of Yugoslavia, to the wars in the Middle East today. The main theme of the project is a critical look at the impact of these wars on the social life in our country, from the standpoint of – as in Tolstoy’s novel – opposing to war and advocating of peace.

More
hisakulturepivka.com
Vojna in mi(r) poster (pdf)

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At the workshop I made a graphic entitled Vojna je posel/War is Bussiness.

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Photos from the workshop and exhibition
Photo: Hiša kulture v Pivki and Vesna Bukovec
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