Alen Ožbolt - Artist

Slovensko

LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD, 2005
exhibition / project in collaboration with Žiga Kariž

Conceptual art should not be the art of forms and material but, rather, the art of ideas and meaning. Ideas, however, are immaterial forms, and forms are also ideas that have found their own material form. Here I would like to say some words on material. The world is material, technology is digital; the world is old, tech...

SLEEP WALKER (THE THIRD MAN) II., 1996

WINDOWS ’95, 1995

WINDOW INTO MUSEUM, elegant illusions; WINDOW INTO THE WORLD, real illusions.

Glass - is from the stone.
House - is of the wish and of brick. House is home, furniture; peoples house proud, housekeeper, housewife, and houseman.
Windows – house arrest with no windows. A very poor and dark closed hole without windows and doors. A Prison cell.
People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
(1995)

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VSSD IN WORDS, 1996

A piece made of sand, covered with white pigment. It was a sand-drawing, a spatial drawing on the floor. It was about a hand, and about writing in the sand. It was a very condensed and rounded, mobile and infinite drawing. You walked till the edge of piece and looked down at the piece on the floor, just like landscape is seen from an aeroplane. gradually discover the (big) surface, you never perceive its wholeness. The piece was very fragile and very temporary - only for the exhibition time.

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