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ARTEMIC #9 | Božidar Dolenc, Morocco, Greece
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Selected by curator of photography Lara Štrumej, MA, who is working on a survey exhibition of Božidar Dolenc. (Morocco, 1978; Morocco, 1978; Greece, Cape Sounion, 1980; Greece, Cape Sounion, 1980; Greece, Cape Sounion, 1980)

 

“In Božidar Dolenc’s oeuvre, the power to give meaning to amorphous impressions of chaotic reality first manifested in his photos taken on his travels to Morocco (1978) and Greece (1980). In Morocco, he focused on street scenes, producing photographs full of an inner logic. In the mythical spaces of Greek temples, on the other hand, he was drawn to various optical illusions created by random tourists wandering amidst ancient ruins, illusions that irritate the view by violating the laws of perspective, or evoke feelings of unease, menace, or anxiety. ‘From the known to the unknown’ or ‘from the sacred to the mysterious’ would well describe not only these images in which Dolenc thematized the ‘eternal’ and the ephemeral, the sacred and the secular, but also his essential intent in general, closer to the world of contradictions, enigmas, and subversions than the world of leisurely thought. Moderna galerija is staging Dolenc’s first posthumous survey exhibition based on his photographic legacy (acquired in 2016) in the second half of this year.”

 

 
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