Oliver Pilič’s First Solo Exhibition in Škofja Loka – Shadows Without Bodies, Images Without Authors

The exhibition at the Ivan Grohar Gallery will feature woodcuts, screen prints and printmaking matrices, in which Pilić transforms images from newspapers, photographs and other sources from the history of art. The artist employed cutting, transferring, layering, censorship and repetition to raise questions about authorship, presence, responsibility and the wider contemporary visual culture.

Special emphasis will be on the works connected to “the sower”, a common subject in art, the Škofja Loka area and the Seven Sins series, which was inspired by Johann Weikhard von Valvasor’s book Theatrum mortis humanae tripartitum (1682). The exhibition prompts reflection on the origin, circulation and mass production of images, while consciously defying “the era of instant everything”. The artist remains devoted to the slow, physically challenging printmaking process that requires time, precision and perseverance. His works, in both process of creation and message, convey a critique of the world that does not yield to social and systemic pressures.