MIDDLEMAN
Artist: Honza Zamojski
In Honza Zamojski’s exhibition, the eponymous Middleman plays various roles. He is a viewer who, upon entering the exhibition space, stands in the middle of the symmetrical architecture. He is also an author who mediates between the world of ideas and the material world by creating drawings, sculptures and texts. Middleman is also visualised as a simplified and symbolic puppet that can be moved by various forces.
Essentially a site-specific installation, the exhibition takes place not only within the symmetry of architecture, but often in relation to the symmetry (or asymmetry) of a sheet of paper, a word and a human figure. An attentive viewer will notice that the further one moves away from the centre of the exhibition, the brighter it is and the more there is to see. You could even say that the narrative explodes, and what tries to put it back together again is Middleman holding the collapsing world with all his might.
In the frame of this exhibition, the latest book by Honza Zamojski, which is an illustrative and poetic attempt to describe the Middleman, his everyday life and the reality that surrounds him, was published by the International Centre of Graphic Arts and Nero Editions.
Curators: Nevenka Šivavec and Yasmín Martín Vodopivec
MGLC Tivoli Mansion, International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
10 March – 28 May 2023
Production: International Centre of Graphic Arts
Support: The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana
Photos: Matevž Paternoster. MGLC Archive.
