One Dollar Bill:
LA TELA VOLANTE
12. 10. — 03. 11. 2018
Over the past two years, two painters, Bojan Šumonja and Marko Jakše, have co-created 24 paintings, while musician Pierre Tol has produced a sound installation. They are presented together at the MMC KIBLA / KiBela Gallery under the name One Dollar Bill.
Under the title La tela volante (The Flying Canvas), the artists' trio takes the dialog between two painters who communicate via the canvas through colors and strokes, and elevates it by means of sound to create a subtle visual ambiance, absorbing us into a unique, enigmatic space.
This is the kind of painting that is soaked with life on every level. And embedded into life. "Everything that a painter does gradually becomes painting. Walking and thinking, scratching his ass, sweeping the floor or washing the dishes, watching beautiful beaches and sleeping and dreaming, drinking and dancing with his friends, everything is painting," were the words of Marko Jakše. Painting infects a painter's entire life, until he no longer needs paints, brushes, nor canvases. A painter is a poète maudit, and his profligacy is constant, incessant. A painting watches you, and it sees deeper into you than you see into it, are also Jakše's words. And what it sees, or points to, is "a wildly beautiful world. (...) It is a wonderful enigma, how a painter can paint with such ease and with such indescribable pleasure; how he can paint such brutal, eerie, cruel things – in a beautiful way." Some years ago, Jakše wrote about how paintings never really stem from dreams: "They are from another place. Never entirely from this world, and hence never entirely from the dream world."
Pierre Tol, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 1970.Lives and works in Pula, Croatia, since 2016.
Marko Jakše, born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1959.Graduated in 1987 from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana.Lives and works in Mohorje, Slovenia.
Bojan Šumonja, born in Pula, Croatia, in 1960.Graduated in 1984 from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia in Italy.Lives and works in Pula, Croatia.
