DUBA SAMBOLEC Situation Report # 3

Gallery PM and Barrel Gallery

22 May – 2 June 2013

What does Duba Sambolec report on? The title seems at first to refer to the presentation of works created over the recent years, but such a quick explanation does not suffice with an artist like Sambolec. Through sculptures, objects, drawings, digital prints, video, printed banners and object painting, Duba Sambolec presents us with engaged, critical, (self )reflective and poetic “reports” about her own existence, about recent history in the Region and about the turbulent times and passive society in which we are currently living.

If on the one hand the exhibited works speak about the need for a critical response to the current social, economic and political situation as well as about the artist’s questioning of her own identity that oscillates between different anchor points (gender, cultural space, art, …), on the other hand they testify to the interest and an almost physical need of the artist to explore the various materials and their artistic and semantic language. But above all, Duba Sambolec’s works express a certain confidence in the power and need for art that rather than falling into a simplyfied slavishness of social utility, remains faithful to its own language.

Situation No. 3 is the third and final edition of the exhibition, which was shown in 2012, first at the Škuc Gallery in Ljubljana and later at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Celje.

Duba Sambolec (1949) worked during the years 1992–2007 as a Professor of Fine Art at the Academy of Fine Art in Trondheim (Norway), and during 2008–2012 at the National Academy of Fine Art in Oslo. She has exhibited extensively in numerous solo exhibitions as well as in group exhibitions, including among others at the Aperto / Venice Biennial (1988) and at the Sao Paulo Biennial (1985). She is recipient of The Pollock-Krasner and Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation individual support grants, NY, U.S.A.

More about the artist:

http://4art.com/profile/DubaSambolec

http://artfem.tv/duba_sambolec/

 

Curator: Urška Jurman

Supported by:

Ministry of Culture Republic of Croatia

Education, culture and sport Department City of Zagreb

OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway

International Support Grant
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia

Co-producers:
Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana
Centre for Contemporary Arts – Celeia Celje

Sponsored by:
Dobravc transport d.o.o.