The RRRudolf gallery in Maribor has prepared an exhibition of Ferrets – Mustela putorius illustrations by Andrej Brumn Čop, where the original drafts for the books Dihurlandia by Branet Mozetič and Na Pasja ravan by Janez Ramoveš are on display.
Painter Andrej Brumen Čop is not an illustrator in the classical sense of the word, but “his variously created illustrative drawings with pencils, pens, brushes and chalk follow the discovery of narratives to which he has dedicated his personal depiction. In this creation, he constantly explores his favorite painting technique, ink and watercolor, which is a constant challenge for him, because this technique does not allow many corrections and every stroke is final. In his illustrations, where he depicts a visual narrative only in watercolor, this is precisely what distinguishes his sincere personal works,” they wrote at the exhibition.
The poetics of Brumen Čop’s illustrationsThe poetics of Brumen Čop’s intuitive watercolor narratives and emotional inspirations are characterized by the fact that “it mostly peels off the essence that is being smuggled out of its interior. That’s why some of his illustrations are so powerful that they hit the reader as hard as the stories or verses they were written around.“
Darker ferrets in the territory of lighter ferretsIllustrations from two book editions are on display at the exhibition. Picture book for children Dihurlandia Branet Mozetič was published in 2016 by the Center for Slovenian Literature. “How the darker ferrets fled to the land of the lighter ferrets and what all had to happen for them to be friends,” the publisher wrote about the book. On a dog level brings poetry from Poljanska dolina from his pen Janez Ramoveš. The collection was published in 2020 by the Ebesede publishing house.
Born in 1967 in Maribor Andrej Brumen Chop studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (ALUO) in Ljubljana, where he completed his postgraduate studies in 1995. He later studied in Graz and Prague, for which he received a scholarship from the Czech government.
In 2000, he received a work grant to stay in New York. In 2003, he worked in the MGLC studio in Ljubljana, and in 2004 he was awarded a working scholarship by the Ministry of Culture. He also created in a Slovenian studio in Berlin. In 1995, he became an independent creator in the field of culture and a member of the Association of Slovenian Visual Artists.
Brumen Čop is also active in the field of art theory, among other things he was the editor-in-chief of the magazine for fine arts Art Words/Art Words. In 2009, he started teaching at the department of art pedagogy at the Faculty of Education of the University of Ljubljana. Two years ago, he also created illustrations for a book Tone Pavček Live messageswhich was published by Založba Miš.
A gallery named after the former director of UGMThe exhibition is on display in the RRRudolf gallery until May 23. It is a gallery that works at the Maribor Literary House, it was opened experimentally in 2004, but the renovation work was delayed and it actually started working only four years later. She was named after Branko Rudolph (1904–1987), former director of the Maribor Art Gallery (UGM), who was also active as a poet and philosopher.
Source: Rtvslo
