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Uroš Potočnik: Workers, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 165 x 226 cm, Moderna galerija
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Uroš Potočnik

Workers

2014, acrylic on canvas, 165 x 226 cm, Moderna galerija

 

In his work, Uroš Potočnik uses widely different artistic expressions, from apparently banal realism to abstraction, but every choice of a historical painting style is a deliberate quotation that makes, with reflected reuse, a certain artistic idiom (or even a specific work of art) topical again by associating it in its subject matter with current political or social circumstances. Potočnik’s works speak of the artist’s criticism of the global exploitation of laborers (Workers), the absurd and questionable aspects of the present-day production and consumption of cheap clothes (Store), and the political opportunism that drives the neoliberal ideology of our world.

 

 

Uroš Potočnik, born in Slovenj Gradec in 1974, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana in 2006 and in 2012 completed his master's degree in the subject of Photo-painting. He lives in Bele vode near Šoštanj. He works in the fields of painting, photography, video, scientific illustration, noise rock, alternative and experimental music. Among other things, he received a special invitation amongst finalists of Essl Award in 2009, and in 2010 participated in the 6th Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia U3. His work was included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana.