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Untitled (Shovels)

2007

Matej Andraz Vogrincic

Photography

136,5 x 134,5 cm

The project “Untitled (Shovels)” was commissioned for the Biennial of Siberia, Krasnoyarsk in Russia (2007). In Krasnoyarsk the space was a huge square in front of Krasnoyarsk Cultural Center. Krasnoyarsk's blazon has a lion which holds sickle in one hand and shovel in the other. Matej Andraz Vogrinèiè decided to use a shovel as main object in his installation. He used 300 shovels and placed them on 8.5 tons of coal. He used a coal as more substantial but still quite similar material to red earth because the translation of a word krasnoyarsk in english language actually means red earth. The result is a platform, 90 cm high, 6 meters wide and 28 meters long, filled with shovels.

Matej Andraz Vogrincic

Slovenia

Born in 1970

Born in 1970, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Lives and works in Slovenia.

Matej Andraz Vogrincic 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. When installation artist Matej Andraz Vogrincic comes to town, normally strange things happen. His works is a reaction to the space and he is using mass produced objects. In his work he does not want to conquer the space, he tries to incorporate his work into a space in away it could melt together an already existing space with what he will add to the space. A combination of both became an installation.