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Maja Licul in Metod Vidic, mimikrija: Efektivna obrestna mera, 2005
Maja Licul
Born in Ljubljana in 1970. Graduated from the Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts.
In the class of professors Metka Krašovec and Andrej Jemec.
From 1992 - 2000 worked on the field of contemporary art. I was an active member
of the Provokart group (1992-1996).
Since 1993 - visual workshops in summer schools for Zois' grant students.
Since 1996 designed and produced unique jewlery from precious metals.
Since 2000 working as designer of visual communications, first in the studio
Zodiak, now in the "mimikrija" collective.
Exhibitions:
- Fathers and Sons, Mothers and Daughters, Avla Gallery, Ljubljana bank,
Ljubljana, 1994
- Time as Structure, Method as Meaning, Studio Gallery, Budapest, 1995,
The exhibition was transferred to Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, November 1995
- Triennal Art and ecology, 'Natura mortua', Art Gallery, Maribor, Slovenija,
1996
- Last year's snow, Cash & Carry, New Year's sales exhibition, Škuc Gallery,
Ljubljana, 1996
- For the quality of living, P74 Gallery (the first exhibition in this gallery),
Ljubljana, 1997
- Youth Biennal, Modern Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia, 1997
- U3, 2nd Triennal of contemporary Slovene visual arts, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana,
1997
- Do it, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, 1998
- Gallery by night, Studio Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 1998
- Business brings us closer, business fair at the Škuc Gallery, 1998
- JUNGE SZENE, Secession, Vienna, Austria, 1998
- Biennal of Young Mediterranean Artists, Rome 1999
- It's comfy, Škuc Gallery, August 1999, Ljubljana
- After the wall, Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden, 1999
- Somewhere else, Galeria AC, Germany, december 1999, presentation of the Škuc
Gallery
and Attitude Gallery from Geneva, Switzerland, 2000
- Individual exhibition in Mala galerija, Ljubljana, 2000
- Nothing personal, HIT Gallery, Nova Gorica 2002
Metod Vidic
Rojen 19.02.1968 v Ljubljani, Slovenija. Srednjo šolo zaključim v Ljubljani.
Trenutno pripravljam diplomo na Fakulteti za arhitekturo. Med letom 1996 in
2004 delam kot oblikovalec v Studiu Zodiak pri Miljenku Liculu. V letu 2004
delam kot art direktor v oglaševalski agenciji Lowe Avanta. Istega leta ustanoviva
skupaj z Majo Licul skupino Mimikrija. V letu 2005 začnem delati kot oblikovalec
v skupini Mimikrija,
ki se aktivno povezuje s studiem Demšar arhitekti (arhitektuura) in Pomarancho
(komunikacije).
I was born in 1968 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. At the moment I am finishing my sttudies at the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana. Between 1996 and 2004 I worked as designer in Studio Zodak with Miljenko Licul. In 2004 I worked as art director in tthe Lowe Avanta advertising agency. In the same year, together with Maja Licul, I founded the collective Mimikrija, where I started to work as designer in 2005. Our activities are closely related to the Demšar architecture studies and Pomarancho (communications).
Since 1996 I have worked as artistic leader and designer of the Žakalnica Gallery in Ljubljana, together with Marjana Grosek - Pšeničnik
- Exhibition in the frame of the 17th ICSID: DESIGN EXPO' 92, 1992
- Award for the best collection of photographs - "Best Collection",
entitled: "We are blind", "We are cool", "There's a
War", 1993
- "CARPE DIEM!" - exhibition of Zois grant students, Smelt Gallery,
LJubljana, 1993
- Individual photographic exhibition "VIJOLICE", K4 Club, Ljubljana,
1994
- Group exhibition "URBANARIA" SCCA, LJUBLJANA, group collective conceptual
exhibition of documents and drafts of the production process of the Urbanaria
application call, title of the project: "Supported City 189495"
- International Urbanistic Seminar - Workshop Zagreb, Croatia, 1995
- co-editor of the VA, KASNEJE NoVA, magazine of architecture students
- 1st Festival of Computer Art, Maribor, multimeda project PETRA+, 1995
- Urbanistic exhibition, Dessa Gallery, LJubljana, 1995
- "CYBERCAFE" project, organized by OSI, Open Society Institute, Ljubljana
and ŠOU, 1995
- postcards: "So What Do You Think About Gypsies?", 1997
With the work Efficient credit rate Maja Licul and Metod Vidic (mimikrija),
who designed the publication for the exhibition Pretty Dirty, problematize the
limits of art. They reflect on the "transition" of Maja Licul from
the field of painting into the sphere of visual communications. The work refers
to the process of cleaning of the New Ljubljana Bank Gallery, which Maja Licul
realized in the context of series of exhibitions entitled Fathers and Sons,
Mothers and Daughters. She wanted to warn about the problem of authority, fatherly
authority in the first place, which is universal. She also questioned the problem
of direct genetic indentifications - artist father equals artist daughter. She
was interested in the way the system of authority functioned from an inside
perspective and how it can be dealt with. In the performance of cleaning she
used three painterly canvases: with the first she cleaned the bank floors, with
the second the windows and she used the third to clean herself after the finished
work.
In the past, Maja Licul continously worked on the process of cleaning, washing
off the original definition of herself as painter. Now she is questioning her
position within the sytem of advertising and promotion.