Small but dangers: Frlauf (Verlauf)
Curated by Tadej Pogačar
Institute for Contemporary Art | Trg Kralja Tomislava 20
HR – 10000 Zagreb
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In dialogue with the artists and the curator: Friday, October 21, 2016 @ 7:00 p.m.
Exhibition opening Friday, October 21, 2016 @ 8:00 p.m.
The exhibition is part of the Gallery Weekend Zagreb programme
Gallery Hours during GWZ, October 21 – 23, 2016
Friday 7:00 – 210:00 p.m.;
+ In dialogue at 7:00 p.m.; Exhibition opening at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.;
+ 1:00 p.m. Guided exhibition tour with the artists and curator Mateja Rojc, Simon Hudolin, Tadej Pogačar
Sunday 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
+ 11:30 a.m. Breakfast in the gallery; 15:00 guided tour with Janka Vukmir
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 12:00 – 7:00 p.m.
The exhibition remains open until November 12, 2016
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An excerpt of the text, which we found on the website of the popular media about hairdressing says:
“The final appearance of the hair does not necessarily mean cutting quality, but rather the quality of styling. The key question is whether you can achieve the same look yourself at home, in front of a mirror, and in how much time you will need a re-cut. With the proper technique of cutting we are trying to make sure that you are able to properly arrange your hair and that as much time possible will pass between one and the other hair cutting, because customers’ satisfaction comes in the first place and not striving for profit. Good haircut should last and should not require adjustments after one or two weeks.”
So what are we taking about? About the quality (of the work performed), styling, professionalism, ethics, sustainability. All of these can be found in the works of Small but Dangers (Mateja Rojc and Simon Hudolin), especially in their recent series of mysterious Frlauf. Mysterious is already the title itself. We can easily find the synonyms for the word frlauf in Slovenian, in words such as transition, overflow, modelation, which are signalling the processes (common) of change and transformation. The concept of overflow in addition to use in visual arts is widely represented in geography, cooking and hairdressing. What hairdressing shares with fine arts? Much like the anatomy hairdressing analyse and evaluate the morphology of the head, face and body constitution, but the ultimate goals are certainly different.
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Mateja Rojc (born in 1977 in Cerkno) graduated from the School of Drawing and Painting in Ljubljana.
Simon Hudolin (born in 1977 in Cerkno) has completed postgraduate studies in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. As a group Small but Dangers work together since 2004.
In recent years, they have been successfully presented at numerous exhibitions of contemporary art and international fairs, artist books (VOLTA New York, VOLTA Basel, ViennaFair, Art Rotterdam, NY Art Book Fair), participated in the 6th Triennial of Contemporary Slovenian Art U3 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova in Ljubljana, Brot Kunsthalle in Vienna, and independently, among others, at the Likovni Salon, Celje, in Kosovelov dom, Sežana in Koroška galerija in Ravne na Koroškem, Gallery P74 in Ljubljana, Šok zadruga in Novi Sad. In 2014 they participated in the residency program Transfer in Freising, Germany.
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An excerpt of the text, which we found on the website of the popular media about hairdressing says:
“The final appearance of the hair does not necessarily mean cutting quality, but rather the quality of styling. The key question is whether you can achieve the same look yourself at home, in front of a mirror, and in how much time you will need a re-cut. With the proper technique of cutting we are trying to make sure that you are able to properly arrange your hair and that as much time possible will pass between one and the other hair cutting, because customers’ satisfaction comes in the first place and not striving for profit. Good haircut should last and should not require adjustments after one or two weeks.”
So what are we taking about? About the quality (of the work performed), styling, professionalism, ethics, sustainability. All of these can be found in the works of Small but Dangers (Mateja Rojc and Simon Hudolin), especially in their recent series of mysterious Frlauf. Mysterious is already the title itself. We can easily find the synonyms for the word frlauf in Slovenian, in words such as transition, overflow, modelation, which are signalling the processes (common) of change and transformation. The concept of overflow in addition to use in visual arts is widely represented in geography, cooking and hairdressing. What hairdressing shares with fine arts? Much like the anatomy hairdressing analyse and evaluate the morphology of the head, face and body constitution, but the ultimate goals are certainly different.
+ + + + + + + + + +
Mateja Rojc (born in 1977 in Cerkno) graduated from the School of Drawing and Painting in Ljubljana.
Simon Hudolin (born in 1977 in Cerkno) has completed postgraduate studies in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. As a group Small but Dangers work together since 2004.
In recent years, they have been successfully presented at numerous exhibitions of contemporary art and international fairs, artist books (VOLTA New York, VOLTA Basel, ViennaFair, Art Rotterdam, NY Art Book Fair), participated in the 6th Triennial of Contemporary Slovenian Art U3 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova in Ljubljana, Brot Kunsthalle in Vienna, and independently, among others, at the Likovni Salon, Celje, in Kosovelov dom, Sežana in Koroška galerija in Ravne na Koroškem, Gallery P74 in Ljubljana, Šok zadruga in Novi Sad. In 2014 they participated in the residency program Transfer in Freising, Germany.