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Artist statement<\/h2>\n

Throughout my creative development, I ask myself: why do all the global problems with which we threaten our own existence seem hopeless, as if humanity is on it’s way to reach complete collapse of our current civilisation. In addition to sociological and natural reasons of collapse (e.g. the damning interests of the ruling elites, regional amnesia, clinging to harmful traditional values, etc.), I estimate that there is also a kind of mental or psychological human predisposition, as if civilizations find themselves again and again in a repetative pattern of destruction, where the unconscious is predominating in the ambivalent state of a person, causing the inability to become aware of self-destructive actions.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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This eternal ambivalent struggle in men is in my art shown through initial right handed planned construction of the composition that I later ruin with destruction depicted motifs with my left hand. . Forms of destructive scenarios such as conflict, tension, anxiety, in short, the destruction of the balance that threatens human civilisation, is noticeable throughout my work. These images are added alongside everyday routine scenarios that look a bit absurd in relation to the previous ones (e.g. a walk with the dog, milking a cow, riding a bus, mowing the grass,…). With the central motif depicted in paintings – crowds of people, unconscious psychological scenarios, debauchery, images of genitalia and domination of humanity over things and animals, I merge two different realities, routine and obscenities that reach deep into human ambivalence. You see through history, mankind has aways struggled to contain or control the forces of nature, he was always integrated between his individualistic perception and outer sphere, because this is the only way he knows how to function, with relation through the other. So the reality in which we are is becoming fragmented, we constantly produce images of us on social media, share opinions etc. and\u00a0 we lose sense of self, our identities become splintered. Furthermore our perception of the other, of outer perceptiveness becomes even less defined, which affects our ability in relation with the subject\/object. That is why the social scenes are becoming more obscene. We are losing our principles and values as humans,\u00a0 because the oneself lives in these two extremes, either he is too self centred or too eccentric and loses its own center. I argue that humankind needs to find these limits in his dualistic behaviour, because in my opinion these leads in today’s crisis across the world.<\/p>\n

About the artist<\/h2>\n

Visual artist Patrik Dvor\u0161\u010dak was born in March 1995 (\u010cakovec, Croatia) and comes from Ljubljana, Slovenia. He obtained his high school education at the High School for Design and Photography – majoring in high school. He continued his education by studying at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, in the Painting program. He graduated in 2017, and in 2022 he also completed his master’s studies with title \u2013 Unconscious and primitive human commotion, also in the Painting program. He currently lives and creates in Ljubljana. He has already participated in numerous domestic and foreign solo and group exhibitions and workshops. Aditionally he was selected by the preliminary jury as one of 50 positions among 852 applicants from Austria, Germany, Slovenia to participate in the final jury of the STRABAG Artaward International 2024.<\/p>\n

While creating, he devotes himself to the dualistic nature of man and his relationship to reality and objects, interested in their mutual connection. At the same time, he realizes that man inevitably acts against his better interests (potentials), because in order to live in a culture he partially suppresses or excludes objective reality, pleasure and mortality, in order to be able to follow his apparent capitalist-based heroic system, where man can be nothing and everything at the same time. His practice invites viewers to confront the conflict between our biological selves and the societal structures we create to deny our mortality.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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