The Opening of the Exhibition The Lost Days by Erik Mavrič

At the Ivan Grohar Gallery visual artist Erik Mavrič is exhibiting eight works of art drawn between 2021 and 2023, half of which he has already shown at the Long Black Summer exhibition in the lapidarium of the Božidar Jakac Art Museum in Kostanjevica na Krki. The remaining four (similar in content to the set exhibited in the lapidary) are presented to the public for the first time in Škofja Loka.

As part of the exhibition The Lost Days, Erik Mavrič explores a topic that has occupied him for many years. He transforms the selected motif material into visual parables - unique codes for understanding the structure of the existing world. The scenes of the artist's stories (in most cases) resemble scenes from science fiction films. In gloomy scenes based on expressive charcoal drawings and effective compositional solutions, the author interprets his present feelings and premonitions of the time to come. He is overcome by fear at the stratification and alienation of human civilization, which is irresistibly traveling towards its own end. Through explorations of history and the use of a mise-en-scène filled with elements of a devastated (modern) urban landscape, he exposes the threats and materializes the fears we face in the grip of global disharmony. Mavrič deals with socially engaged topics, and with the present exhibition he (unintentionally) also touches on the field of psychoanalysis and, of course, the history of the place where he currently lives and creates.