Thoughts

Exhibition

Anda Klančič – Thoughts
(music by Lado Jaksa)

In the succession of explications of the characteristics of the gallery, like the series of sites of the south tract of the former Cistercian monastery Fons Beatae Mariae, which are deeply imbued with history, and the present Božidar Jakac Gallery, which today we call a lapidary, an original project oriented to deobjectification was somehow logically chosen this time as well. The lapidary, as a site dedicated to the presentation of historical stone monuments and architectural remains, somehow logically dictates the presentation of statuary or related three-dimensional works of art.
It is precisely from the standpoint of the notion of lapidary that it seems unusual that we are currently presenting an artist who orients her creative potential to entirely contrasting materials, which are, in opposition to stone, fragile, soft and translucent. That is to say, Anda Klančič has to date been one of the more discernible Slovenian designers in the domain of textile and fibre art.
In spite of the fact that Anda Klančič is recognised in professional circles above all by her masterly skill in making machine-embroidered lace and the way she effectively designs jewellery and accessories, in which her formal meticulousness becomes especially vivid, she has prevailed upon us to prepare an exhibition with more monumental works. We think here above all of her husks or torsos of human bodies of natural dimensions made of palm bark or other textile-like materials, which she has entitled In the Embrace of Nature. These images give the viewer the impression of sublimated scenes, which should take on new meaning in the environment of abandoned monastic sites.
With the fact that the central medium of expression of Anda Klančič is thread and her tool the sewing machine needle, every new material that offers her new creative possibilities awakens new artistic impulses in her. In this sense she is sparked by everything that "passes by", especially in nature. Therefore it is not strange at all that her means of expression can likely be tree bark or hair or ethereally transparent artificial materials. Every one of them has specific properties and offers new structures or colour effects, and Anda Klančič knows how to use their powers effectively.
Fascination with nature literally reflects itself in her works. Representations of tree leaves, a little piece of meadow, the surface of clover and ocean waves are all strongly direct, but yet always in some connotative relation. Thus the meadow, for instance, is not only a simple grouping of blades of grass, for its "growth" is limited to a human palm… The image of a human hand, or more precisely an open palm, appears surprisingly often in the works of Ande Klančič. This hand is also the source of life (the seed of a blade of grass), an embrace (in embrace of nature) and a sign of power.
The conceptual starting point of her current exhibition, however, is human thought, which she illustrates with strong and characteristically coloured ribbons. She has chosen a theme that she stripped bare on the basis of her own observations and perceptions, and at the same time with the thought of "everyman" among us.
As the starting point of the exhibition she chose real thoughts. The latter are down-to-earth and therefore fundamental. They imply a starting point and have a primary character. They are defined by the figure of a cube and the colour brown. With the installation of a couple of monumental four-leaf clovers, the artist draws our attention to the fact that we are at a crossroads of mental states. The clovers, with their barely perceptible allusion to human bodies (female and male), call our attention to the fact that the direction of our mental paths depends not only on us, but also on good fortune. Fortune is hidden in the people who surround us and influences our states of mind and directions.
Since it depends on good fortune in what state of mind we may find ourselves in the following moments, Anda Klančič offers us some basic paths. We can find ourselves in the embrace of wise, bright thoughts or we can be carried away by dark ones, from which it is usually the hardest to extricate ourselves.
When we find ourselves in the embrace of wise thoughts, the mental processes are intense and impulsive, and concentration on such thoughts can lead us to deep insight.
The other offered path leads us into a sphere of bright thoughts. The latter are joyful and relaxed, and fill us with creative energy. Their sunny colour casts make them easy to recognise. The fact that it means a distinct form of happiness for Anda Klančič to find herself in such thoughts is manifest in the meticulously shaped human fist (she entitled it Desideria Pia – Pious Thoghts), which snared such a large morsel of happiness that it can no longer retain it and lets it slowly run through its fingers (the motif of four-leaf clovers appears anew). Amidst these bright thoughts, however, the open palm offers us blades of grass and the freshness of young vegetation. This motif can also be understood as a symbolic representation of the response of the environment to bright thoughts.
But when fortune is by no means favourable, one falls into the embrace of dark, black thoughts. These are heavy and entangled, and when they multiply, they become painfully sharpened. When these thoughts imbue us with darkness, they seem unsolvable and cause heavy blockades. But even these sorts of thoughts inevitably find their way out and slowly calm down like all the others.
It is not until one is aware that all types of mental states are part of a single undulation, and when one wonders, like Anda Klančič does, amidst the undulation of thoughts, "If the sky is the limit?" that one can catch the thought that one wants to subdue (captured thought). I think that for the artist her favourite "captured thoughts" are precisely her artworks, which we follow in the projection of a series of shots. Through the artist's aura, which appears symbolically in the immediate vicinity, her works are becoming recognised throughout the world.
Anda Klančič closes her exhibition with an autonomous installation entitled Memento mori (Remember Thy Death). With this installation the artist points out not only that thoughts are transitory, but also that they can be harmful… However, in the series of decaying and human husks which are transforming into dust stands a young couple, in front of which all types of mental paths are still possible.
With this exhibition the artist wishes to remind us that our life is a constant tumult of changing mental states and paths that somehow we ourselves can considerably often reorient in the direction we desire.

Barbara Rupel
Art historian, curator of the Gallery Božidar Jakac,
Kostanjevica na Krki, Slovenia

Kaj: Instalacija
Kdaj: pet, 12.10.
ob 18.00 do ned, 25.11.
Kje: Galerija Božidar Jakac-lapidarij, Grajska c. 45, 8311 Kostanjevica na Krki, Slovenia

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