Personal Data

PERSONAL DATA
First Name:	Uros
Last Name:	Potocnik
ZIP code / City:	3325	Šoštanj
Country:	Slovenia
Nationality:	Slovenian
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Biography
Date of birth:	11.5.1974
Lives and works in:	Bele vode
Student at	Akademija likovnih umetnosti (Academy of Fine Arts and Design), Ljubljana
Student since	2001
Exhibitions	Selected solo shows: 2008 »Fotoslika«, Galerija KAPSULA, Ljubljana 2007 »Fotoslika«, Galerija P74, Ljubljana. 2007 »Fotoslika«, Galerija Velenje, Velenje 2007 »Belovoški stoli«, Mestna galerija Šoštanj, Šoštanj 2006 »Fotoslika«, Galerija sodobne umetnosti Celje, Galerija Hodnik, Celje Selected group shows 2008 »Klimawandel–Zeitwandel«, galerija Kunstlerhaus, Grazz 2007 Alt_cph – Copenhagen, Alternative Art Fair 2007, Copenhagen 2007 »Akvarijske ribe«, Galerija Velenje, Velenje 2007 »Fresh Europe«, Budimpešta 2006 Slovenija e. V. Berlin, Berlin 2005 »AL-U4«, ljubljanski grad, galerija S, Ljubljana
Further studies and awards:	2. year of master΄s degree of painting. Awards: 2002 Boomerang UP 2002 (for music) 2004 Award for special art achievement 2006 Student Prešern prize for painting 2006 Graphic Bienale Novo mesto
I mainly work in this medium:	Painting

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Work1
Image 1:
Title:	Veranda (3)
Year:	08
Technique:	plywood, laser print, hide glue, acrylic paint, wax, crepe tape
Size:	17,5 × 22,5 cm
Short description of your work:	»Veranda (3)«. Motive of an enclosed veranda, buried beneath supermarket adverts, plastic children's toys, books, bottles, clothes, shoes, food leftovers, baby diapers… Contains social connotations, existential insufficiency, function/disfunction, in use/used up, realism.
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Work2
Image 2:
Title:	Veranda (1:1)
Year:	2008
Technique:	graphite, pigment, acrylic emulsion, on cotton canvas
Size:	2,5 × 4 m
Short description of your work:	»Veranda (1:1)«. A larger work in progress sized 2,5×4 m, at a ratio of 1:1 to the actual motive. Objects or things that are piling up on the actual veranda, I »inpaint« into this evolving piece. The painting's surface becomes saturated with objects brought into the real veranda by its residents, by their existence. Accumulated objects display habits of life of people who are using the veranda.
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Artist Statement:	I paint existence, residence…
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