RE:akt! Action #5: Mount Triglav on Mount Triglav < home    Description LJUBLJANA, August 7, 2007 On Monday, August 6, 2007, Slovenian artists Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša performed the action entitled Mount Triglav on Mount Triglav, in order to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the death of Jakob Aljaž; the 33rd anniversary of the Footpath from Vrhnika to Mount Triglav; the 5th anniversary of the Footpath from the Wörthersee Lake across Mount Triglav to the Bohinj Lake; the 25th anniversary of the publication of Nova Revija magazine and the 20th anniversary of the 57th issue of Nova Revija, the premiere publication of the SLOVENIAN SPRING; and the 16th anniversary of the independent state of Slovenia. The action was a re-enactment of the famous work by the OHO group entitled Gora Triglav (Mount Triglav), which was performed by group members Milenko Matanović, David Nez, and Drago Dellabernardina on 30 December, 1968, at the Zvezda Park in Ljubljana. In 2004, the Irwin group performed the piece at the same location as part of their Like to Like series, reinterpreting the individual actions of the OHO group. With their action Mount Triglav on Mount Triglav, Janša, Janša and Janša continue the tradition of conceptual art in Slovenia, but at the same time raise, anew, questions about the ideological associations of the events of, both, distant and more recent history. Related articles Evolucija motiva by Vladimir P. Štefanec DELO October 20, 2007 Triglav - simbol sodobne slovenske umetnosti Interview with Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša by Ida Hiršenfelder Dnevnik October 20, 2007 Konstrukcija in re-uprizarjanje slovensk(e)(osti) umetnosti, triglav brez konca by Petra Kapš Reartikulacija Dec. 2007/Feb. 2008 Wir sind das beste Modell by Herwig G. Höller Falter Steiermark N. 41/07 October 10, 2007 Triglav by Katie Kitamura Frieze Magazine Issue 113 March 2008

Mount Triglav on Mount Triglav Miško Šuvaković 3 x TRIGLAV: CONTROVERSIES and PROBLEMS regarding TRIGLAVA After 1968 a certain provocative controversy is at work in contemporary Slovene arts. This experimental, retro-avant-garde and artivistic artistic-political controversy seemingly refers to the famed happening of the group OHO (Milenko Matanović, David Nez, Drago Dellabernardina) Triglav, which took place on 30 December 1968 in Ljubljana's Zvezda (Star) Park, and on the recyclings or reconstructions of that happening which were made first by the group Irwin (Andrej Savski, Borut Vogelnik, Roman Uranjek) Svoji k svojim/Gora Triglav (Like to Like/Mount Triglav) in 2004 in Zvezda Park, and later, by the artists Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša - Triglav na Triglavu (Triglav on Triglav) on 6 August 2007 on Slovenia's Mount Triglav. In the frame of an experimental artistic situation the three performances only seemingly metaphorize the geographic, national and state symbol of Slovenia: Mount Triglav. All of the works are the most radical executions of the politically sliding sign, that is, individual explanations of symptoms of Slovene identity and, more importantly, the historical construction and realization of political identities. [MORE] Subject: RE:akt! Action: Mount Triglav on Mount Triglav Location: Mount Triglav, Slovenia Date: August 6th 2007 Authors: Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša   Production: Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana Producer: Marcela Okretic Co-Production: Maska, zavod za založništvo, kulturno in producentsko dejavnost, Ljubljana and Zavod Masa, Ljubljana (Slovenia) Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia the Municipality of Ljubljana the European Cultural Foundation www.reakt.org powered by

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