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When on a Winter’s Night a Traveller

2005

Matej Andraz Vogrincic

Photography

200 x 150 cm

The project “When on a Winter’s Night a Traveller” was commissioned by L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival and GPO Melbourne in Australia. In Melbourne the challenge and the already existing space was an old post office called GPO, as Grand Post Office. By the time Vogrinèiè arrived to Melbourne it was changed to an upgrade shopping mall but still resembled as an old Victorian building, totally white. The space Vogrinèiè decided to use was the space between ground floor and 1st floor in the atrium of a building.
Melbourne weather is really significant. It is a common joke between citizens of Melbourne saying, if you do not like the weather in Melbourne, come back in 5 minutes! And it rains a lot. So as mass produced object, Vogrinèiè decided to use an umbrella. Not any kind of umbrella. A special one, the one with 16 spines, a copy of beautifully made old fashioned umbrellas. They were all black, thousand of them and they formed some kind of a field. On the top floor of the building Vogrinèiè hide 3 fog machines to produce fog and spread them above the field of umbrellas.

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.