The main carrier of activity on the exhibited paintings is the image of a strange creature. At first sight it seems very old and bent under the burden of age and its thoughts. It is an image quite typical of Street Art (sometimes referring to the author as such): a hero, a persecuted criminal, a
The main carrier of activity on the exhibited paintings is the image of a strange creature. At first sight it seems very old and bent under the burden of age and its thoughts. It is an image quite typical of Street Art (sometimes referring to the author as such): a hero, a persecuted criminal, a star, a dark figure with a mythical background or a comic hero assuming the image of a catatonic hero. Here we have a comical and grotesque cephalopod not at all resembling a human of flesh and blood. Neither strong and feisty, nor omnipotent and omniscient, but rather fragile and vulnerable, it is for the very reason of being presented as an anti-hero that this image of man – a plant, an aged vegetative being – becomes a hero. What the creature expresses itself is far from provocative or aggressive. It resides in the world of eternal aging and passing, yet there is no bitterness. The creature has no wish to be anything else, it wants to remain just what it is.
Gregor Purgaj was born in 1981. Educated as a florist, he lives and works in Murska Sobota. He designs albums, LPs, T-shirts, stickers, etc. for the independent music label God Bless This Mess Rec from the Prekmurje region.
He cooperates voluntarily with MIKK Youth Information and Culture Club Murska Sobota and Murska Sobota City Gallery by organizing and running workshops on graffiti, Street Art, design, etc.
