Marko Zorović

Pièces de clavecin

2015, acrylic on canvas, 130 x 160 cm

In his paintings, Marko Zorovič brings together in paradoxical combinations motifs of the undervalued manual labor of public utility workers with the tradition of majestic baroque religious painting and the equally notorious socialist realist tradition of public mural painting that celebrated the heroic nature of such labor. In Zorovič’s formulation, the narrative of the all-conquering shock brigade work is disrupted, and so is perspective in the painting. Zorovič’s work subtly suggests an insightful criticism of the reality of today’s labor market and policies.

Marko Zorović was born in 1973. After Secondary School for Design and Photography he studied šainting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana (University of Ljubljana) and graduated in 1997 in the class of Gustav Gnamuš. He finished his MA in 2000 (mentor Bojan Gorenec). He won the Prešeren Student Award. In addition to painting, he is occasionally engaged in restoration of artworks, book and popular-scientific illustration. In the years 2002-2005 he published articles in magazines, newspapers and exhibition publications.