{"id":460,"date":"2009-09-27T18:38:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T16:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/?p=460"},"modified":"2010-03-06T18:52:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T16:52:44","slug":"the-only-thing-i-can-control-is-my-attitude-towards-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/archives\/460","title":{"rendered":"The Only Thing I Can Control Is My Attitude Towards Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exhibition:<\/strong> Vesna Bukovec, The Only Thing I Can Control Is My Attitude Towards Life (Edina stvar, ki jo imam pod nadzorom, je moj odnos do \u017eivljenja)<br \/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miklovahisa.si\/galerija\/\" target=\"_blank\">Miklova hi\u0161a Gallery<\/a>, Ribnica<br \/>\n<strong>Date:<\/strong> October 1 &#8211; 31, 2009<br \/>\n<strong>Curated by:<\/strong> Ur\u0161ka Jurman<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/slike\/news\/morski-pes.gif\" alt=\"Invitation card\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You are cordially invited to attend the opening of the solo exhibition The Only Thing I Can Control Is My Attitude Towards Life (Edina stvar, ki jo imam pod nadzorom, je moj odnos do \u017eivljenja) by Vesna Bukovec. The opening will take place on Thursday, October 1st at 6 pm in the Miklova hi\u0161a gallery in Ribnica, Slovenia.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fifth exhibition in a series in which selected curators (so far Zdenka Badovinac \u2013 Ur\u0161ula Berlot, Andrej Medved \u2013 Mitja Ficko, Simona Vidmar \u2013 Sa\u0161o Sedla\u010dek, Nevenka \u0160ivavec \u2013 Matej Ko\u0161ir and on this ocassion Iztok Hotko \u2013 Vesna Bukovec) select one artist for a solo exhibition from the artists who participated at the annual post graduate students exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana, 2. M (this time the selection was made from the 2004 exhibition). <\/p>\n<p>At this exhibition Vesna Bukovec presented the video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/video\/it-will-be-ok\">It Will Be OK<\/a> and a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/drawings\/positive-illusion\">drawings<\/a>. Both works deal with the self-help culture and the dictate of positive thought as two cultural formations that importantly form and express the contemporary subjectivity.<\/p>\n<p>Vesna Bukovec takes a closer look at psychology, which is worked and distributed through the various forms of popular culture. The authoress directs her criticism towards the over simplification of the complexity of our emotions and life circumstances, which &#8211; in the context of exaggerated positive orientation (It Will Be OK) and the various psychological tests that she addresses in her drawings &#8211; seem as a merely insignificant comment. At this she uses irony, repetition and eclecticism as her artistic strategy, with which she holds a mirror against the absurdity of the narcissistic care of oneself. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/slike\/news\/subjective-happiness_.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/slike\/news\/subjective-happiness.gif\" alt=\"Vesna Bukovec, from the series Subjective Happiness\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/projects\/the-only-thing-i-can-control-is-my-attitude-towards-life\"><br \/>\nPhotos from the exibition<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<table class=\"povzetek\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"200px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/archives\/460\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/slike\/news\/morski-pes.gif\" alt=\"The Only Thing I Can Control Is My Attitude Towards Life\" width=\"190px\"\/><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Miklova hi\u0161a Gallery, Ribnica<br \/>\nOctober 1-31, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Solo exhibition of Vesna Bukovec.<br \/>\nOpening on Thursday, October 1st 2009 at 6 pm. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/archives\/460\">>>><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}