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Matej Andraz Vogrincic

Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Matej Andraz Vogrincic is a Slovenian artist. He has been creating site-specific work in urban and natural environments since the early 1990s. He has built an international reputation by creating installations specific to local places, traditions, and histories - filling the most ordinary or neglected places with even more ordinary objects. With all his work, Vogrincic starts with the space but always leaves room to alter and develop the idea in the process. His projects rely on a direct connection with the local community, including clothing and toy car donations.

Vogrincic first "dressed" a dilapidated house with donated clothing in his hometown and then presented a similar project at the Venice Biennale in 1999. He created the project "Car Park: Members Only" - a wall installation consisting of 15,000 toy cars placed on a wall of a building in Adelaide, Australia in response to the city's traffic and parking problems and continued to the Australian outback, where he put up a watering can installation, consisting of some 2,000 plaster watering cans arranged over the area of a football field in a region largely devoid of rain. As part of the 2003 Awesome Festival in Perth, Western Australia, he filled up an area of 7,000 square meters with 10,000 balloons of red, orange, blue, pink, green and yellow colors. He filled the atrium of the former Melbourne GPO with 1000 umbrellas in 2005. One of his recent projects include Untitled (56 Boats) commissioned for the 4th Liverpool Biennial in England, an installation of 56 upturned boats placed inside the bombed ruins of the Gothic Era St. Luke's Church. In 2013, Vogrincic was selected to be part of 'KASHIMA' international artist-in-residence run by the npo BEPPU PROJECT in Beppu, Japan. During the residence he experimented a work in collaboration with Japanese bamboo craft masters and he created the site-specific artwork, 'Rope', in an abandoned hot-spring. He is invited as an artist for a contemporary art triennial called the Beppu Contemporary Art Festival 'Mixed Bathing World' 2015 in Beppu, Japan.

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Ljubljana, Slovenia
bostjan, November 26th, 2016
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