Aleksander Velišček. Gullivers

The exhibition presents a selection of recent work of the young Slovenian artist, or seven paintings that depict, in an unconventional way, different personalities including intellectuals, writers, journalists and politicians such as the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning. By distinguishing characteristics of each of these faces emerge violently signs of a political struggle, the defense of a cause, of an entire life dedicated to chase an ideal. Like Gulliver of Swift, the human figure, painted by the Slovenian, appears trapped, not by ropes, but by organic structures and metal joints similar to orthopedic supports. The title of the polysemic staff Velišček evokes not only the well-known hero of the novel by Jonathan Swift, Gulliver is in fact used the word to mean "head" also by the characters of the novel A Clockwork Orange, the writer Anthony Burgess.

Gulliver is a lemma of the terminology "Nasdat" invented by the writer for his novel of 1962, and then revived in the famous film adaptation of Stanley Kubrick. The language "Nasdat" is derived from the fusion of words of English and Russian, the two idioms that represent the main political forces of that time: thus, the gratuitous violence that pervades the novel and the film is contextualized by a lexicon able to detect political causes-social, just as happens in the research and painting Velišček.

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