Garaža Kamba

The exhibition Garden and Other Beasts, by second-year students of the Academy of Fine Arts Art Education Department, carves linocut-engraved slits into overgrown gardens where worms burrow through soil and drops of black ink flow through spaces between chlorophylls. The graphic portfolio, inspired by Sanda Črnelč’s poem Garden, consists of seventeen sheets—seventeen interpretations of what grows, reaches for the sky, matures, and withers over time. It explores the garden as an idea, a symbol, and a physical entity of conceptual richness. Motifs of organic and inorganic matter intertwine with atmospheric elements, light smudges, and other beasts—permanent or occasional visitors to the garden beds and shades surrounding human dwellings. Sanda’s poem, a contemplation of sweat, moist humus, and the meditation of a being with dirt-filled nails, unifies these diverse approaches and character interpretations, providing a cohesive lyrical moment. In addition to the portfolio, the exhibition will feature a selection of graphics by the same year’s students—a bestiary of formal figurative and casually abstract works, sprouting from walls like diverse organisms rooting and burrowing in the ecosystem of a printmaking garden.

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