Mladen stropnik's Page

Website

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Relationship status

married

College / University

MFA Ljubljana, MFA Muenchen

Program

painting, drawing, video, performance

Graduation

1 June 2004

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Drawing, Painting, Performance, Sculpture, Video

I am...

1977 Born Slovenj Gradec – Slovenija
2001 Student Prešernova award
2003 MFA study Muenchen Academy of Fine Arts, Germany (prof. Klaus von Bruch)
2003 Exhibiting Open Art Muenchen 2003, Galerija Jaspers, Muenchen, Germany
2004 Finished MFA Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenija
Working and living in field of video, painting, drawing, performance in Ljubljana & Velenje Slovenija - EU.

About my artwork

Already the first meeting with Stropnik gives us a feeling of duality. Dressed in tuttifrutti coloureful overalls he indicates an unconventional artistic soul and a dynamic person, but only until he surprises with his leisurely language and idle motion. Originally from rural knapper environment he undertakes a journey into the world of urban problems, which get their most realistic figure when his TV breaks down or when he's desperatly seeking a bag for a vacuum cleaner.

He is not interested in money, however, he wants to have enough of it. Corporations disguist him, unless it's about sponsors. He wants to keep his privacy but still likes to bare himself. The image is evil, but he extremely enjoys in presenting his own image. He would like to not give a fuck about anything, but that doesn't work. He is too engaged.

Stropnik personalizes modern society, modern man and all present and future »us«. The artistic bluff becomes reasonable in his artistic work where he juggles a content with an image, he uses the space to supplement profundity and makes us move within the time dimensions with his video. So in this multidimensional line a man is represented as a prisoner of products and image, a modern cyborg, who can only be upgraded in relation to his master – in the form of a corporation, a creator or both in the same image.

And finally a piece of advice: when you meet him in the street, be sincere with him. Don't try to be a dude because he doesn't like one. Do not subject yourself to him as he ignores people like that. A natural instinct for equity baffles him to feign. Besides, he already realized that it's only right to be surrounded by those with whom you really get along well. And don't forget: because he does give a fuck.

Jernej Adamič

Artists I like

Audio Res Nullius (1st and 2nd album)
Computers Damir Šmit
Music Saša Lušič
Music Robert Jukič
Music Klemen Klinc
Artist Nataša Skušek
Artist Katja Skušek
Designer Boris Sovinc
Photographer Peter Bračič
Artist Uroš Ipavec
Music Luka Sever
Music Matjaž Čas
Media artist Klemen Gorup
Translator Robert Miličevič
Designer Rok Marinšek

Interests

MY KEY WORDS AT THE MOMENT:
DUALITY
TO SCREW (verb), A SCREW (noun)
rock and roll (?)
EGO IS GOOD
PHAT ASS
A MYSTERY/SECRET FOR THE VIEWER
CYBORGS
FUTURE LIFE, ali LIFE IN THE FUTURE
CAR, WHEELS
SLEEPING OUTDOORS, SLEEPING IN NATURE, DORMIR DEHORS
ENOUGH MONEY, SUFFICIENT CASH, ENOUGH DOUGH
ENJOYING MY IDLENESS
MEDITATION
ALCOHOL AND DRUGS
AUTHORITARIAN VIOLENCE, POLITICAL VIOLENCE
I DESPISE LIARS, SLUGGARDS AND BAD PEOPLE
DETERMINATION, FIGHT, TRAINING
I DO NOT WANT SCRAPS, I WILL FIND FOOD MYSELF
I LOVE THE MEANINGLESS
i DON'T GIVE A FUCK, I DON'T CARE, I COULD NOT CARE LESS

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

http://www.glu-sg.si/nit/caveng.htm
http://www.zavod-parasite.si/

The centre of the artworld is

my studio, online, another city

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http://www.artreview.com/profile/mladenstropnik
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