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11 January 2012 You are kindly invited to the Organic jam session on Wednesday, 11th January 2012 at 6 pm, also at Alkatraz Gallery. The event welcomes all musicians and sound-producers who will have a unique opportunity to operate with a prepared upright piano Organ 2011, representing a part of the exhibition, or respond to it with other instruments. Other sound-consumers also invited. The event will be directly broadcasted by Radio Študent within the Open radio experimental platform RADAR from 6.10pm until 6.30pm.
Matej Stupica (1987) has completed his studies of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. He creates in various fields of visual art, ranging from comics, illustration, and painting to installation. His artist book Hedgehogs was chosen in a tender of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute, “Artist Book 2005” and was exhibited at the 27th International Biennial of Graphics. He publishes his illustrations in Objective, a supplement of Dnevnik newspaper. In 2008, at the 8th Slovenian Biennial of Illustration, he won the Hinko Smrekar prize for newspaper illustration. In 2009 he received a prize of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design for special artistic achievements in 2007/2008. In 2011 he received a student Prešern award for painting. In 2011 he also studied painting at AAAD in Prague. The works, exhibited at the exhibition Escape from Alkatraz, represent his diploma works at ALUO with prof. Žiga Kariž and co-mentor prof. Borut Vogelnik.
More about the exhibition you can read here.
Photos of the event you can see here.
Photo: Sunčan P. Stone
Thanks to:
Brane Ždralo, Katerina Mirović, Marko Kragelnik, Sašo Vollmeier, Žiga Kariž, Borut Vogelnik, Samo Sajovic, Tomage Dolenc, Lenka Đorojević, Neža Jurman, Jonas A., Matija Stupica
Production:
KUD Mreža/Galerija Alkatraz 2011
