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The book Opium Clippers is a combination of images and texts through which the artist narrates stories based on documents while,
The book Opium Clippers is a combination of images and texts through which the artist narrates stories based on documents while, at the same time, consciously transitioning from the factual to the symbolic level of this issue.
Photography is inevitably related to the idea of passing away and to death because the image,
Photography is inevitably related to the idea of passing away and to death because the image, frozen in time, will sooner or later come to represent (only) a dead being or matter.
The sculpture, complete with keyboard, accordion and traditional umbrella, symbolises the music of Avsenik Ensemble. It was designed by Klemen Rodman who aimed to conjure the touching
The sculpture, complete with keyboard, accordion and traditional umbrella, symbolises the music of Avsenik Ensemble. It was designed by Klemen Rodman who aimed to conjure the touching and withdrawing of the backdrop of keyboard and accordion and the contact of the sculpture with the mountains Triglav, Golica and Roblek. (From the Opening Celebration of the Sculpture 'Avsenik's Music', radovljica.si, 26 November 2013 )
Why take the organisation of one’s own life and space so seriously?
Why take the organisation of one’s own life and space so seriously? Why does this kind of absurd situation generate outrage and invite ridicule?
Here was this house, the administrative unit Color Medvode where employers used to live for a while, in the attic, in the cellar they slaughtered pigs,
Here was this house, the administrative unit Color Medvode where employers used to live for a while, in the attic, in the cellar they slaughtered pigs, and then they had to move out because the firm grew, so they needed more space, right?
THIS COULD BE YOU ENTERING HEAVEN
THIS COULD BE YOU ENTERING HEAVEN There`s a place on Earth for everyone. Even for this shit. Right here.
Digital collages from Emir Šehanović are connecting prophetic images of the kind. They represent the visual content of the book that the author created consciously and sometimes unconsciously,
Digital collages from Emir Šehanović are connecting prophetic images of the kind. They represent the visual content of the book that the author created consciously and sometimes unconsciously, based on his emotional state and special feelings.
You’ve made it sort of too dark. I don’t know who’s gonna buy it. I’ve never been in New York but this seems to me like the area where niggers live, what’s it called?
You’ve made it sort of too dark. I don’t know who’s gonna buy it. I’ve never been in New York but this seems to me like the area where niggers live, what’s it called? This was done by someone who does not like Belgrade.(A professor of Yugoslav and world literature)
Portraits of the dogs are actually portraits of people, and rather than speaking of violence as a product of human manipulation,
Portraits of the dogs are actually portraits of people, and rather than speaking of violence as a product of human manipulation, they speak of people, who they are and who they long to be.

ROSTFREIPUBLISHING

Rostfrei Publishing started as an idea of creating a platform for bringing to light visual content we find inspiring, critical and inventive.
That is what we did for many years with a trans-Balkan street magazine called Kontejner
and now we feel that it is time to take it to another level.
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October 2019

Jaka Babnik: Pygmalion

Exhibition opening: October 22 at 7 pm

The myth of Pygmalion and Galatea, from Book 10 of Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”, can be regarded as a symbolic thread running through artist Jaka Babnik’s latest exhibition project.

Jakopič Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 22. 10. 2019–26. 1. 2020
September 2019

Indigo x Caffeine Hours 2019, 12. 9.–13. 9. 2019
Ljubljana, ZRC SAZU atrium, Novi trg 2
In collaboration with Look Backandlaugh.
Art book fair featuring local and international independent and micro-publishers, and a meeting of designers, illustrators, photographers and artists.
Find the Rostfrei Publishing table there. >>>
Avgust 2019

INDIGO FESTIVAL, Nobody Cares? 11. 9.–13. 9. 2019
All we want is peace and quiet. We withdraw to detachment, vegging out in privacy, until someone knocks on our door. Personal integrity and the possibility of solidarity have been taken away from us, while, squinting over our bedsheets, we gloomily observe world events or simply lock our hearts away to guard them from the evil. Should we care? Perhaps the last stanza of the European anthem Ode to Joy exposes some of these antagonisms: “Yes – he too who but one being on this earth can call his own! He who ne’er was able, weeping stealeth from this league alone!”
LOCATIONS: Ljubljana -Trg francoske revolucije, Gosposka ulica, Križevniška ulica, Novi trg, Ambrožev trg square park
June 2019

Celje FOKUS: Everyday Banalities
28-30 June 2019 / Celje, Slovenia
exhibitions, symposium, meetings
This year’s edition of the festival Celje FOKUS is dedicated to the theme ‘Everyday Banalities’ which addresses notions of photography and visual culture in relation to ordinary, everyday, non-spectacular, familiar, bizarre or even dull situations. During the opening weekend of the festival exhibitions, international symposium, presentations and meetings will take place in different venues across town of Celje.
Participants: Anja Carr / Anna Ehrenstein / Fotosfera / Miroslav Karic / Martin Kollar / Borut Krajnc / Davor Konjikusic / Sandra Krizic Roban / Sladjana Petrovic Varagic / Klaus Pichler / Peter Rauch / Sara Rman
Venues: Mladinski center Celje / Likovni salon / Galerija Račka / Galerija Plevnik Kronkowska / Slovensko ljudsko gledališče Celje
June 2019
Slovenski vikend @ Office for Photography, Zagreb
Subota 8. 6. u 11.00 – Galerija Spot; Pričanje priča o opijumskim ratovima uz sudjelovanje Neje Tomšič, autorice knjige Opium Clippers (Rostfrei Publishing). Vizualna umjetnica, pjesnikinja i spisateljica Neja Tomšič izvest će prigodnu čajnu ceremoniju, uz pričanje (istinitih) priča o zaboravljenim epizodama iz svjetske povijesti.
Subota 8. 6. u 17.00 – Galerija Spot; Diskusija o izdavaštvu i drugim DIY/DIT praksama u području fotografije i umjetnosti
Sudjeluju: Jaka Babnik, Bojan Radovič, Peter Rauch; Moderira: Sandra Križić Roban
Nedjelja 9. 6. u 11.00 – Galerija Spot; Pričanje priča o opijumskim ratovima uz sudjelovanje Neje Tomšič, autorice knjige “Opium Clippers” (Rostfrei Publishing)