| Damijan
Kracina : STATEMENT N2 Education and technologies My basic education is classical study of sculpture and postgraduate study of video and new media at Academy for Fine Arts in Ljubljana. I visited several self-improvement courses and studies in new media, video, 3D computer animation, interactive use of multimedia, web design and web programming. My idea and wish is to have complete control over technologies used in my art works. Technologies which are used in my art (classical sculpture and painting techniques, video, computers, internet, electronic..) are just mediums for carrying ideas and statements. They don't have artistic values by themselves. Influences I've been
active present in Slovene art scene almost 10 years (I started my study
in 1992, I finished my postgraduate study in 1999). I participated at
several important exhibitions and art projects in Slovenia, over Europe
and elsewhere. I visited lot of main art-events and exhibitions all over
Europe. During few months living in USA I have visited many art- festivals
and exhibitions, but my bigest artistic satisfaction was visit of Marcel
Duchamp room in Museum of Art in Philadelphia. In those last 10 years
I have been most enthusiastic with artworks of Bernini, Joseph Beuys,
DADA, Andy Warhol, Bruce Nauman and Damian Hirst and also slovenian sculptor
Lujo Vodopivec. Main interes For several years I have been reserching of a new relationship beetwen human and nature. What fascinate me is an interdependence of all living kinds. Main interes of my work is to lay stress on meaning of extinction of some life form for all universe. I think that local extinction is a global lose. I've been
working on documenting, revisting and researching of facts about some
animal kinds. And I've been trying to translate those facts and results
to language and form which is understedandable to art-world, in which
I'm also part of.
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