My friend Goran Škofić has new crazy stuff for you, again. The human figure is shown as a sign on the white surface without objects, set on the ground with no support, within a rectangular cut of the frame in the abstract field of the world of image. It just looks simple!

Hybrid composite image makes it possible to create a world that is perfectly convincing and real, but at the same time incredible, full of scary visions, phantasms, nightmares, fears, and anxieties, with contours that are precise and inexplicable. — Branka Benčić, text from catalogue

This is totally his style, loop videos connected through the exhibition set-up. Get the full experience of Goran’s set-up in MK Gallery in Zagreb (Croatia), watch the video below!

Haven’t seen you in a while. How’s it going my friend?

Didn’t you always wanted to design and make your own piece of clothing? My Slovenian friends Biljana Janković and Kristina Berčič have something to share with you, enjoy the story.

Last weekend City Art Gallery Ljubljana and Socialdress had an amazing workshop, but how the story begins. The link between gallery and Socialdress started because way back in the time these wide trousers were being warn in Paris for the first time, not too much behind them were the first ladies from Ljubljana who started wearing that kinda revolutionary trousers. In history at the exact gallery where this workshop took place, used to be a shop where they were selling these trousers.

Amazing one day long workshop that brings out your creativity to the fullest and at the end you end up laughing for no special reason. I chose to make one out of jeans. Love them, took me awhile but they’re just the most comfortable trousers ever. My friend made one out of jersey, also very comfortable and stylish. I love days like this. Full of creativity and hanging out with great people!

The author of Socialdress Marija Mojce Pungerčar uses the term “social dress” for clothing that has an integrative effect in terms of community. The Socialdress workshops spread knowledge about clothes making, at the same time reinforcing awareness about the consequences of globalization to the Slovenian textile industry, and about the gradual disappearance of craft skills. At Socialdress workshops they create functional items of clothing with a lot of soul that are easy to make as well. An important part of the workshops is an exchange of stories and experiences. In this way they create and propagate the Socialdress brand label. You cannot buy a Socialdress dress in a shop, you can only make it yourself.

If you are in Ljubljana, come and visit their work included into ”word for word without words” exhibition at City Art Gallery Ljubljana. It will be open till the end of October. Thank you girls!

This whole environment is very pleasant, surrounded by photographers and photography lovers – GREAT! This is third year of the photography festival Photodays, already, and I’m third year here too, proudly. Rovinj was always the most photogenic city for me and it’s like ideal for similar events. Press centre has kindly hosted me and helped with anything I needed. I’m satisfied with the day 1 at Photodays, I’ve met many people from the photo industry. I only missed the colour management (calibrating monitors) workshop by Dean Žvorc. From many exhibitions and workshops I chose these two below to write a bit more:

Camera Obscura (Lecture and Workshop), by Borislav Božić

The leader of the camera obscura workshop, my respectable mentor, Borislav Božić has prepared 15 “Ljubica” camera obscuras for his todays workshop. The “Ljubica”, as he calls it, is a type of camera obscura he has designed several years ago, and which is used by the attendants of his recording workshops. It is very practital and adjusted to photo paper with a dimension of 10 x 15 cm. Actually, that was my first camera ever, when I took my first analog photo about 7 years ago on his workshop. It was my pleasure to see him again.

DSLRevolt (Workshop), by Marko Butraković

I wrote about Marko before and I finally met him in person. Cool guy! His todays workshop on DSLR video recording was very instructive. Audi R8 Spyder had its promotion premiere for Croatia. We learned more about elaborating advanced DSLR recording techniques and their application to real-life situations. These guys have a lot of professional equipment and the most interesting for me was Steadicam. We recorded many different scenes for a short film. Totally great experience.

Regards from sunny Rovinj, stay tuned for day-2-report!

Welcome to Die without Art blog, this is first post here, it seems. I’d like to introduce you my second solo exhibition which was opened this week, on 14th January 2010. in Pula. Ghosts and supernatural phenomena were my main occupation during the night sessions. That’s why I called it “We are not alone“.

“Life captured in photography” is the title of an article about exhibition in newspaper. I like press.

I do photography over 7 years, and this was the hardest period for me, but the happiest when I done with work. Why the hardest? Because my camera was a half broken, and deadline came so fast. Every shot was taken with full Manual settings, and Manual focus (MF) too. Results were unexpectedly better.

Press clipping, elsewhere

See complete “We are not alone” collection on Flickr: Link
Regional newspapers wrote about the exhibition: Glas Istre, Regional Express
Official location article: Public library of Pula

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