Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana and Trajekt – Institute for Spatial Culture, present:

Peter Rauch
Minimal Difference between This and That


SOLO EXHIBITION

Curator: Miha Colner

Aksioma | Project Space
Komenskega 18, Ljubljana

19 October – 11 November 2016
Opening hours: TUE-FRI 12 pm – 6 pm

Exhibition opening and artist talk: Wednesday, 19 October 2016 at 7 pm

Guided tour by Peter Rauch: WED, 26 October 2016 at 5 pm
Guided tour by Peter Rauch and Miha Colner: WED, 9 November 2016 at 7 pm
 

 

 

The exhibition Minimal Difference between This and That presents new works by Peter Rauch, a Slovenian visual artist who examines the fundamental questions of the nature and the phenomenality of objects and explores the laws of moving matter.
If Rauch had ordinarily employed photography to record and analyse all sorts of objects that are a result of human intervention, then, in his comprehensive work Minimal Difference between This and That, he focuses on the fundamental questions of objects as such. What is it that defines and constitutes a physical object? Does an object really represent an overall structure composed of smaller elements that by themselves have no purpose? The saturation of the contemporary cultural environment with all kinds of objects triggered the artist’s obsession with them. First, he creatively dealt with them through a medium – photography, but then the two-dimensional image and its frame became too narrow. The works expanded into space, which led to an in-depth theoretical and practical research of the philosophical and structural givenness of physical objects and the consideration of their mutual dependencies. In order for a certain matter to change shape or start moving, it needs a force triggered by another matter. The artist’s body thus became a mediator and at the same time the motor of the transformation of various matters with the central point of the exhibited works being the act of throwing.

Miha Colner





Production:

Trajekt – Institute for Spatial Culture, 2016



Co-production:


Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana



Artistic Director: Janez Janša
Producer: Marcela Okretič
Executive Producer: Sonja Grdina
Public Relations: Urša Purkart
Technician: Valter Udovičić
Documentation: Jure Goršič

Supported by: Municipality of Ljubljana




CONTACT
Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana

 

Peter Rauch
 
Photo: Anže Grabeljšek
 

Peter Rauch (1978) graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana and obtained his MA in Photography from the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. He works in the fields of photography and architecture. He works, explores and exhibits in cooperation with the Aksioma, Federacija and Trajekt institutes. He lectures at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design and the Department of Photography of the Higher School for Applied Science in Ljubljana.