Words as Colours, Colours as Words

Main Days of Poetry and Wine 2015
festival exhibition

26–29 August 2015
Old Glassware Workshop, Ptuj

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Artists: Maja Burja, Avgust Černigoj, Primož Čučnik & Gregor Podlogar & Žiga Kariž, Matjaž Hanžek, Andrej Hočevar & Jaka Železnikar, Alenka Pirman, Srečko Kosovel, Anton Podbevšek, Zoran Srdić Janežič, Valérie Wolf Gang

Curators: Dušan Dovč, Mihael Kelemina, Simona Žvanut
Exhibition design: Vesna Bukovec
Advisor: Saša Nabergoj

Opening: Wednesday, 26 August 2015, at midnight

Lecture: Dušan Dovč, Missing Poem is a Poem,
Saturday, 29 August 2015, at 6 p. m., Old Glassware Workshop

In 2015, the curatorial team of Studio 6 is exploring the relations between visual arts and literary creation. We were prompted to do so by our collaboration with Beletrina Academic Press and the 2015 edition of the Days of Poetry and Wine festival, to be held in Ptuj in late August. We will organize two connected events for the festival: an initial event in Ljubljana (as part of Evenings before Days) and the main exhibition in Ptuj.


Srečko Kosovel, Leteča ladja, collage, 1926
(By courtesy of National and University Library of Slovenia, Ljubljana)

On behalf of the invitation of Beletrina Academic Press publishing house, Studio 6 team is preparing two events that examine the relation between artistic expression in visual arts and in words, and which can be placed among research projects that transcend the boundaries of a single art form. Both events will be part of Days of Poetry and Wine 2015 festival programme.

On 24 August 2015, in the framework of the Evenings before the Days, a documentary presentation of the poetry and visual project Ode on Manhattan Avenue (Čučnik, Podlogar, Kariž) will be held in the SCCA Project Room (Metelkova 6, Ljubljana).

Two days later, on 26 August 2015, we will prepare the main festival exhibition Words as Colours, Colours as Words* in Ptuj's Old Glassware Workshop. Exhibition will be conceptualised by thinking of the festival's poetry programme and events – as well as the city of Ptuj as the host. Authors who have on the one hand searched for visual value in words or on the other hand space for words on the canvas will present themselves. The exhibition will, in three complete sections, offer a selection of quotes from the manifestos of visual and literary artists, which will initiatively lead visitors through the history of experimenting with form and word; it will present artists of the Slovenian avant-garde, a reference for both Slovenian visual and literary creativity; and it will be concluded with artistic works and multimedia installations by contemporary artists.

On Saturday, 29 August, at 18.00, when the festival draws to an end and the exhibition closes its doors, Dušan Dovč will hold a lecture Missing Poem is a Poem on visual poetry and poetic texts aimed more at viewing than reading.