Andrei Grabrovec

Andrej Grabrovec in front of one of his sculptures (2016)

Andrej Grabrovec , pseudonym Gaberi (born May 26, 1959 in Maribor ) is a Slovenian artist .

Life

Andrej Grabrovec Gaberi was born in Maribor in 1959, where he graduated from high school and defended his thesis at the Technical University of Construction. As a project engineer, he worked with the project planning office of the Technical University of Maribor under the direction of Borut Pečenko and Vukašin Ačanski and designed plans and models for a “Forma Viva sculpture” in concrete. In 1986 the long-term cooperation with the art foundry and the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb began. In 1990 he decided to work as a freelance artist, in his studio he devoted himself to the project of making large sculptures in clay and plaster. In 1993 he founded the civil initiative “Harpist Forum”. In 1993 he founded the Central European civil initiative Harpistisches Forum. Then in 200 he set up the public sculpture in front of Charles University in Prague and thus founded a new project of cooperation between old European universities under the name European University Bridges. Since 2001 he has been the editor of the publication »ga BERI« for the new conditions in the third millennium. He lives and works in Ljubljana, Maribor and Zagreb.

job

Gaberi conceives and designs macettes for sculptural compositions and develops problem solutions for her public realizations. In his work he combines art and geometry, engineering and the transcendent dimension. In studios in Maribor and Zagreb he designs large compositions in clay, plaster and wood, which he has cast in bronze in a Zagreb art foundry. The fundamental motive of his creative activity is the motive of women in the European public space, since women made a significant contribution to shaping European culture, and women were permeated by music as universal love. In his Maribor gallery he organizes roundtables, ceremonial meetings of the Harfistic Forum, exhibitions and concerts.

Projects

• 1993 civil initiative "Harpist Forum"
• 2000 art project "European University Bridges"
• 2001 magazine "ga BERI"
• 2018 film sculptures Gaberi

Public presentations

• 1992 GRAZ (Austria) “Sleeping Muse”
• 1993 Creation of a large plastic Fall of the Crucified for Razkrižje
• 1994 MARIBOR (Slovenia) “Knez Kocelj Monument”
• 1995 ZAGREB (Croatia) "Miroslav Krleža bust"
• 1996 MARIBOR (Slovenia) sculptural composition “The fairies from the Drava”
• 1997 MARIBOR (Slovenia) Fontane “The dance of the fairies”
• 2000 PRAGUE (Czech Republic) “Prague Muse” in front of Charles University
• 2001 VIENNA (Austria) “Rector's Chair”, Vienna University of Technology
• 2002 VIENNA (Austria) relief “Portrait of Europe”, Europa-Park near Vienna
• 2004 MARIBOR (Slovenia) “Themis and Dike”, Maribor Law Faculty
• 2005 KRAKOW (Poland) “The Bridge” in front of the Jagiellonian University, Krakow
• 2006 LJUBLJANA (Slovenia) water sculpture "Mother Earth", BTC
• 2007 VILNA (Lithuania) sculptural composition “Omega” in the Botanical Garden of the Vilnius University
• 2007 NOVI GRAD (Croatia) “The Crucified for Croatia”
• 2008 LJUBLJANA (Slovenia) relief “A Midsummer Night's Dream”
• In 2008 in the studio he created the door to Eden
• In 2008 he created the relief Pieta in his studio
• 2009 LJUBLJANA (Slovenia) relief “The angels sing so beautifully”
• 2012 MARIBOR (EPK Slovenia) “Chapel of Universal Love”
• 2013 BUDAPEST (Hungary) sculptural composition “Historica” in front of Corvinus University Budapest
• 2015 LJUBLJANA (Slovenia) sculptural composition »Sidharta«, BTS
• 2017 LJUBLJANA (Slovenia) sculpture »The Nymphs of Rein«
• 2018 MARIBOR (Slovenia) sculptural composition "European University Bridges" in Alma Mater Europea
• 2018 GRAZ (Austria) relief "dance of joy"

Independent exhibitions

• 1989 MARIBOR (Slovenia), Maribor University Library
• 1990 VARAŽDIN (Croatia), Vama showroom
• 1992 GRAZ (Austria,) Galerie Otto Haase
• 1993 LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), government building of the Republic of Slovenia
• 1993 LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), Nova Ljubljanska banka, Ljubljana
• 1996 ZAGREB (Croatia), Mimara Museum in Zagreb
• 2001 VIENNA (Austria), Korotan Gallery
• 2017 ZAGREB (Croatia), Mimara Museum
• 2019 ROGAŠKA SLATINA (Slovenia), Anas Gallery

Public tenders

• 1989 MARIBOR (Slovenia) Monument to Bishop Anton Martin Slomšek, Maribor
• 1990 ZAGREB (Croatia) Monument “Miroslav Krleža”, Zagreb
• 1990 ZAGREB (Croatia) Monument “Miroslav Krleža”, Zagreb
• 2004 POREČ (Croatia) Fontane, Poreč

• 2017 GRAZ (Austria) public sculpture realization

Group equipment

• 2017 PARIZ (France), Grand Palais winner of the MENTION recognition
• 2019 PARIZ (France), Grand Palais Winner Recognition Arthur Leduc, which the Association of Fine Artists France awards
• 2020 PARIZ (France), Grand Palais

reviews

• 1992 Wilhelm Steinbuk dir. Museum Graz
• 1993 Aleksander Bassin, director of the local gallery
• 1994 Sergej Vrišer, art historian
• 1997 Maja Vetrih, art historian
• 1999 Damjan Prelovšek, art historian
• 2003 Oswald Miedl, Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Vienna
• 2003 Richard Vakaj, Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Vienna
• 2006 Maja Vetrih, art historian
• 2007 Maja Vetrih, art historian
• 2008 Marjan Žnidarič, director of the Museum of Modern History
• 2008 Mario Berdič, art historian
• 2011 Attila Zsigmond, director of the Budapest Galeria 2011
• 2017 Damjan Prevolšek, art historian
• 2017 Polona Tratnik 2019, full professor

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ STA: Slovenski kipar Grabrovec-Gaberi razstavlja v zagrebškem muzeju Mimara ( Slovenian ) Retrieved on February 26, 2016.