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- College / University
- University of Ljubljana
- Member type
- Artist
- If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
- Drawing, Installation, Painting, Printmaking, Video
- I am...
- Miran Kreš (1973) studied Educational Fine Art at the University of Ljubljana. In 1998 he graduated from abstract painting. He spent the following years in Ljubljana and traveling throughout Europe and North Africa. The Postmodernistic theory and Analytical psychology influenced the development of his art from 1999 to 2001. He went to New York where he attained the contemporary views and reflections in multimedia art. From 2002 to 2003 he lived in Amsterdam where the central, though not exclusive theme of Kres's work has been an exploration of mortality and alchemy. He bases his work on the cabalistic and alchemistic traditions. From 2004 he lives and work in Ljubljana.
His paintings are also represented in both corporate and private collections.
Selected exhibitions and art projects 2000- 2008
2000- 10 + 10, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Graz, Austria
2002- Water to Air Project, The Tube Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherland
2003- Mr. B, Guerilla Performance Locator, Web art project, London, GB
2003- Images of Desire 3, Artwalk, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2004- Y-Rebis, Hest 35 Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2004- The Pink Triangle: GAD, The Young Artists’ Biennial, Bucharest 2004, Romania
2005- Extasis, Kresija Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2005- Grand Prix des Ambassadeurs, Les Decourtenay Galleries, Châtelet, Belgium
2006- Decoding Pittura Immedia 3, Galerija ZDSLU, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2006- Junge Slowenische Kunst, Galerie Sikoronja, Rosegg, Austria
2006- Liberté d´Expression exhibition / Barclays Global Headquarters, London, GB
2006- II. International Printmaking Exhibition, Amire Art Centre, Istambul, Turkey
2007- Pulse, Artyfakt Gallery, Singapur
2007- Is Abstract Art Death? Galllery 345, Slough, GB
2007- Déjà vu, Festival do Minuto, Rio de Janeiro, Brazilia
2008- Prototype Archetype, White Hall, Vilnius, Lithuania
- About my artwork
- From the exhibition Prototype Archetype:
"The painter Miran Kres has mystical ideas about the world, which is supposed to be composed of the four elements: water, air, fire and earth. He bases his work on the cabalistic and alchemistic traditions he likes, but there is nothing in his art which is just allegorically narrative, sign symbolic or illustrative. Instead, in his pictures, which at first appear abstract, the artist achieves deep spatial effects, directed towards infusing or imbuing these elements and discovering light from the beyond, expressing his mysteriousness with a very studious treatment of colour through layering, pasty applications, the spraying and application of varnish, producing a final effect in which everything disappears into immaterial spiritualised visions. Their mistiness reminds one of Turner and of the panoramic views of old masters, who were ever gazing into the distance and who always saw faraway light despite an often darker foreground. This knowledgeable artist has perhaps in spirit re-modelled or sublimated all such traditions, but in reality his work does not stem from a conscious attempt to transform them or to personally re-shape them and detract from nature itself. Instead, the artist with his intimate inner nature permeates the colour relationships and layers with his own impression of a world unknown to him, and in which grandeur and lyrical warmth come close, as do mystic holiness and intimacy which is already indicated by the picture formats themselves, while everything spills over into the distance towards the source light. In most of his pictures, a fiery light glows, imbued with a melted earthen brown, and in places with the freshness of greenery; but the light with its sfumato covers all his elements in yellowy warmth, which flows in refined channels into an imaginary depth in the translucent atmosphere of emerging worlds. This atmosphere, which beats through the blurred layers and translucent softness, is as spiritual as it is earthly and heavenly, because it is inhabited by the artist’s desire for unspeakable expanses, similar to the desires of old romantics and more recent ones, including abstract ones – artists who often face the sky and who we sometimes call “sublime”. That is why his paintings appear at the same time to be ancient and modern, abstract and mystical, at first lyrical but also more dramatically agitated. However, they are founded throughout on the very delicate softness of transitions which through tonal richness literally “give honey”, until they disappear into an almost invisible premonition as if they were in reality aiming for the transcendental and at the same time natural “light of God”.”
Dr. Milcek Komelj
March 2008
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