Radovan Gregorčič’s cosmic minute

The natural authenticity of ceramics, burnt at 1,300 degrees Celsius, is enriched with the intertwining motives of existence, smallness, greatness, life and dimensions passing through Earth’s globe into the sphere of the invisible. All of the above and much more of what a visitor can personally experience is found in the “Cosmic Minute” exhibition on display in the FELU Gallery in March. This time, it is Radovan Gregorčič, an artist from the Primorska region, who is presenting himself, combining snippets of the everyday with inconceivable dimensions of the cosmos.

“The message of this exhibition is multi-layered. It tackles nature, our living environment, and the fact we can learn something from it. The common thread running through the works of art is that nature is not only what we see, that is hills, seas and meadows, but is so much more than that. I myself also represent nature, I am the living environment of microorganisms and that, for me, is the microcosmos where I take samples for stories that I project onto the macrocosmos. The expanse ranging between the micro- and macro-cosmos provides the realm for our thinking about life,” said the artist.

The materials for artistic creation are taken from nature, thus helping to create stories about it. “My inspirational platform is nature. By being aware of the existence of nature, I am also aware of myself as a small atom within the system. First, you have to reach the point where you become aware of your smallness and insignificance but also your importance, as the greatness lies in the fact you respect all of this. Thus you accept life in a different way and can let it teach you. It offers you experiences and tests. So you come to the point you no longer fear the tests but see them as an element of everything there is; so it is only after you have passed the tests that you transform into something more. And this ‘more’ is the stories you regard as life, and that becomes my inspiration for my work.”

The displayed works of art do not show any names, although they do have them, as the artist wants the visitor to find the message by themselves. One sculpture is named “You get what you ask for”. It bears the idea of being aware of our smallness, yet if we, in all our modesty, ask for something realistically, this actually happens. You are invited to find a sculpture and the message it conveys and perhaps find some other stories that reverberate across the space of the FELU Gallery.

Iva Drvarič, Efnews

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