Information
Uršula Berlot >
»TRANSLUCENT MEMBRANE«, 2002
Co-Workers & Funding:
Luka Omladič, Nataša Petrešin (texts); Ministry of Culture RS, MOL City of Ljubljana, Museum of Modern Art, LjubljanaPlexiglass, artificial resin, projection, reflection
plexiglass dim: 180 x 100 cm; immaterial parts: variable dimensions
Technology
Material
plexiglass, artificial resinMethod
Light projector
Descriptions & Essays
Uršula Berlot 20-04-2020
'In her art works, Uršula Berlot is observing the influences of so called coincidences and the results that uncontrolled processes cause. Her own "confronting the unknown" in the form of creative openness to the characteristics of the used materials (artificial resin and plexi glass) and to the gravity laws has brought her to an abstract visual language. She is complementing it with the scientific terminology and analogies, drawn from the processes occurring in the nature. Her compositions are not subjected to the previously defined schemes. While looking at them the viewer can encounter abstracted ground plans, paysages, microorganismic structures. The forms are suggestive and based on our own memory constructions about the nature’s appearance.
Uršula reintroduces this indeterminacy, one of the key elements of the abstraction, through thorough setting up of art objects in the space and using of the light. The objects do not end with the contours of their material substance, they are "open works", extending themselves into the immaterial sphere with the interplay of the material and its shadow. In the ambiences that are being constructed a passage from physical matter to its untouchable presence is realised. Indirectly also a passage from three-dimensional to four-dimensional field occurrs, the latter being constituted by time based phenomenon of the light and the viewer’s perception process. In communicating with the art work, the viewer is an active part who puts his/her experience into an order and adapts the unknown to the known.' – Nataša Petrešin, Reflection, 2002 (excerpt)
Uršula Berlot: TRANSLUCENT MEMBRANE, 20-04-2020, in: Archive of Digital Art 'In her art works, Uršula Berlot is observing the influences of so called coincidences and the results that uncontrolled processes cause. Her own "confronting the unknown" in the form of creative openness to the characteristics of the used materials (artificial resin and plexi glass) and to the gravity laws has brought her to an abstract visual language. She is complementing it with the scientific terminology and analogies, drawn from the processes occurring in the nature. Her compositions are not subjected to the previously defined schemes. While looking at them the viewer can encounter abstracted ground plans, paysages, microorganismic structures. The forms are suggestive and based on our own memory constructions about the nature’s appearance.
Uršula reintroduces this indeterminacy, one of the key elements of the abstraction, through thorough setting up of art objects in the space and using of the light. The objects do not end with the contours of their material substance, they are "open works", extending themselves into the immaterial sphere with the interplay of the material and its shadow. In the ambiences that are being constructed a passage from physical matter to its untouchable presence is realised. Indirectly also a passage from three-dimensional to four-dimensional field occurrs, the latter being constituted by time based phenomenon of the light and the viewer’s perception process. In communicating with the art work, the viewer is an active part who puts his/her experience into an order and adapts the unknown to the known.' – Nataša Petrešin, Reflection, 2002 (excerpt)
Literature
Kostić, Aleksandra (ed.) and Peter Tomaž (ed.) Dobrila. »Eye Try: Slovene contemporary visual art in the Vision Centre Cork, European Cultural Capital 2005 (a catalogue of an exhibition).« Tox, 10/12. Maribor: Association for Culture and Education Kibla, Multimedia Center Kibla (2005).
Zabel, Igor. »Slovene Art 1995 – 2005: Territories, Identities, Nets.« Ljubljana: Museum of Modern Art (2005).
Zabel, Igor and Zdenka Badovinac. »Towards Zero Gravity. Težnost v slovenski likovni umetnosti 20. in 21. stoletja/Gravity in Slovene Fine Art in the 20th and 21st Centuries.« Ljubljana: Museum of Modern Art (2005).
Vignjević, Tomaž. »Spiele des Lichts. Die Malerei Uršula Berlot.« V: KulturKontakt 01/2005. Dunaj: KulturKontakt (2005).
Medved, Andrej. »Il traverso della luce (catalogue).« Loža Gallery, Koper (2004).
Pregl Kobe, Tatjana. »Uršula Berlot: Pretakanje svetlobe/Decantation of Light, 28. 10 – 18. 11. 2003.« Nova Gorica: Municipal Gallery Nova Gorica (2003).
Omladič, Luka. »Uršula Berlot: Odsev/Reflexion, Museum of Modern Art, Small Gallery, 28. 6. – 25. 8. 2002.« Ljubljana: Museum of Modern Art (2002).
Petrešin, Nataša. »Uršula Berlot: Reflection, Museum of Modern Art, Small Gallery, 28. 6. – 25. 8. 2002.« Ljubljana: Museum of Modern Art (2002).
Exhibitions & Events
2005
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