- theme exhibition (main and small gallery, balcony)
8.11. - 6.12.2006
The first civilizations have respected and worshiped sexuality since it preserves humanity. Religion and politics have influenced our culture to that extension that it proclaimed everything connected with sex as unnatural. Freud explained: every impulse, conscious or not, that is stimulated by the human body and reaches the mind is sexual. Therefore, all human instincts that control the human behavior are sexual. The church and state have managed to oppress it by claiming sexuality is a sin. What they did is oppress the act that preserves the mankind. Of course, this oppression was sometimes reflected in art. Drago Tršar is one of the few artists, who does not care about the morals considering sexuality but creates full-blooded pieces instead.
dr. Jure Mikuž
Drago Tršar's work is not provocative and has no intention to be. The artist is too wise and skillful to be interested in sensationalism or tempted by a predicted reaction of the audience. His erotic opus expresses a personal world, which surprisingly is not marked by trauma and feelings of anxiety but is relaxed and follows the quote joie de vivre. Not even when the casts are reminiscent of a death mask nor when death is actually mentioned and painted on a cast as a pirate flag with a skull. Though Tršar completely ignores and speaks ironically about death, his world is not superficial but extremely deep in all its cheerful extensions that find its final expression in the hymn of life.
Robert Inhof