ARTIST PER MONTH Maks Bricelj: 1991

In October, the Artist per Month exhibition space will feature young painter Maks Bricelj. The exhibition, titled 1991, will display an installation piece composed of paintings, drawings and other objects; an experimentally oriented layout, utilising ironic derivations of interpersonal and dystopic consumer relations inside and outside of civilisation, techno-communicational burdening of man and humorous generational misunderstandings.

After concluding his studies at the Secondary School for Design and Photography and then taking a break for several years, Maks Bricelj (1991) enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (ALUO) in Ljubljana, where he is concluding his B.A. studies in painting and starting his M.A. studies in sculpture.

His artistic work encompasses painting, drawings, object design, illustration, photography, video, sound and collecting found items. As of late, he is interested in designing installation pieces that combine all of the above. Befitting his curious nature, he always gathers his interests from his immediate surroundings, aligns them and develops them further by browsing online and through print media of all sorts. He dislikes defining himself as far as genres go, therefore feeling the most at home within chaotic byways. He prefers to go with the flow or manipulate the rawness of a selected medium, experimenting in the freedom of expression and spontaneous problem solving. One of his pieces was featured at the opening of the UAUU Gallery in 2014 and he has also participated in the independent ALUO students’ exhibition Vakuum (2015), the month of culture at Hostel Celica (2016) and the opening of the Južna exhibition space in Tovarna Rog (2016).