Andrej Ajdič

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Andrej Ajdič

Andrej Ajdič (born July 12, 1937 in Laško , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) is a Slovenian painter , graphic artist and sculptor .

Life

Ajdič is the oldest of five siblings. The family moved to Graz , Austria for a few years and so he grew up bilingual. At the age of eleven he became an orphan and then lived with an aunt's family in Celje , where he completed a secondary education and an apprenticeship as a goldsmith . From 1956 to 1958 he studied applied arts in Ljubljana and the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna with Kurt Schwarz and Franz Herberth , where he graduated in 1961.

Ajdič married in 1965. His two daughters were born in 1967 and 1968. After a brief employment in industry and a stay in Switzerland , Ajdič returned to his work as a freelance artist. He bought a domicile in Poljane in the upper Savinjska valley, where he still lives today.

Create

The art critic Winfried Konnertz explains : "At the beginning of the 1960s, Ajdič began with narrative-figurative pictures of an anecdotal nature that reflect his real environment. The pictures show a new figuration, as a rejection of the Informel as it emerged in the West: ordinary, banal subjects or advertising, as used by Pop Art . But Ajdič's adaptation of banal things is not banal . In his pictures he unites western tendencies, such as Op Art and geometric systems with narrative material, around the "grotesque stock" - that is, the opponents intellectual and artistic programs of western art productions and give it an enigmatic dimension through its image creation ". Konnertz: “Ajdič's works show both: formal compositional mastery and color-intensive structuring of highly imaginative subjects. The geometric is combined with the real, often in reduced images . Irritating scenes form image areas - often on a black background - into which reality quotes and colored geometric shapes are integrated. As if through window frames, one looks into the background, which combines floral and biomorphic with technical objects, evoking unexpected associations ”.

In 1975 Ajdič began his sculptural work ... the sculptures consistently use newspaper pages reproduced in bronze in relief . They are initially used to depict unpretentious objects. Apples, shoes, bread, animals or anatomical details, but then later for the large sculptures - Reading Monkey 1990 or I. Upgrade tribute M . 1991. The newspaper pages in molded bronze, casts of the matrix of a printing page for rotary printing machines , create - as it were, encasing - the sculptures and form them into anthropomorphic - mythical structures.

The first major solo exhibition took place in 1976 at the Pierre Koller Gallery in Lausanne. Exhibitions at home and abroad followed. Those who know his work include the Vatican Museum and personalities such as the UNESCO General Director Federico Mayor , who was awarded the FIEJ Prize , an Ajdič bronze, on the occasion of the 1993 international newspaper congress in Berlin . Federico Mayor, Bill Clinton and Johannes Rau are among the collectors of Ajdič sculptures.

Works

Andrej Ajdič's works are in numerous private collections, owned by galleries in the USA and in various European countries as well as in the Albertina in Vienna, in the Ministry of Culture, Vienna, in the National Library Civita, Milan, in the Secretariat for Culture, Ljubljana and the National Library, Washington, and the Academy of Applied Arts, Vienna. Exhibitions devoted exclusively to his work found u. a. in Italy, Switzerland, Germany and the USA. In 1989 the artist was awarded the Gold Medal, Künstlerhaus Wien .

In October 2019, Ajdič raised allegations of fraud against the parish there in connection with the use of the statue of Christ he had made and which he said was on permanent loan in front of the parish church in Međugorje . This denied Ajdič's claims that according to the customs declaration the statue was a gift.

Works in public space

  • The risen Savior , Medjugorje

Exhibitions

1974: Andrej Ajdič: tapiserija, slikarstvo, grafika , Municipal Gallery, Ljubljana

  • 1991: Andrej Ajdič , German Parliamentary Society, Bonn; Villa Clementine, Wiesbaden; Galerie am Brühl, Chemnitz; Künstlerhaus, Vienna
  • 1993: Andrej Ajdic. Cast time: bronze sculptures and graphics . Bank Austria, Vienna

literature

Web links

Commons : Andrej Ajdič  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ J. Gurks: `The reading monkey` or the power of the media. In: / New Germany daily newspaper / November 6, 1991 p. 1, On the exhibition of sculptures by A.Ajdič, Künstlerhaus Vienna.
  2. ↑ people. In: The world. March 16, 1991, p. 7
  3. ^ Ana Siler: The art from ex-Yugoslavia in three Viennese collections: Albertina, MUMOK and the Erste Bank collection. 2005, pp. 86, 87, 143, 144. http://othes.univie.ac.at/6242/1/2009-07-23_0402746.pdf
  4. ^ Andrej Ajdič: monograph. Self-published, 2005, ISBN 961-236-795-7 . Pp. 4-7
  5. ↑ Mirko Juteršek: Andrej Ajdic . In: German Parliamentary Society , Bonn 1991, pp. 10,12,13
  6. ↑ a b c Winfried Konnertz , art critic: In: / monograph Andrej Ajdič / 2005, ISBN 961-236-795-7 , p. 1
  7. ^ Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers. In: / BDZV Intern / May 25, 1993, p. 5, Congress of the Federation Internationale des Editeurs de Journeau et Publications
  8. ^ "Art with the MZ, Prize for Press Freedom", Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of May 26, 1993, p. 1
  9. ^ Künstlerhaus - Verein - Members AZ . Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  10. ↑ Martin Sander: Jesus - made in China. Deutschlandfunk Kultur on October 27, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Ajdič, Andrej
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian painter, graphic artist and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Laško , Slovenia