2004 Preseren Awards Go to Painter Borcic & Flautist Grafenauer
The 2004 Preseren Awards - the highest national awards for artistic achievements - will go to painter Bogdan Borcic and flautist Irena Grafenauer, the Preseren Fund said Friday.
The nominees for the Preseren Fund Awards, which are to be bestowed in 2005, are architects Matija Bevk and Vasa Perovic (joint nomination), sculptor Mirko Bratusa, dancer and choreographer Edward Clug and poet Ales Car.
Also nominated are painter Andrej Brumen Cop, mezzo-soprano Mirjam Kalin, video artist Ema Kugler, composer Milko Lazar, actor Natasa Matjasec, poet Iztok Osojnik, composer Peter Savli, and poet Milan Vincetic.
Upto six Preseren Fund Awards are expected to be presented at the award ceremony, which will be held in Ljubljana's arts centre Cankarjev dom on 7 February 2005, the eve of Slovenia's Culture Day.
The Preseren Fund says that Grafenauer is an "artist of great culture...distinguished by her infallible virtuosity, artistic sensitivity, technical reliability and personal creative passion. She is a regular guest of the most eminent festivals on all continents, the records including her performances are produced by major labels, and her music enriches radio and TV stations all over the world".
The explanation for Borcic's award says that his "graphic oeuvre is the core of a vital artistic body, which, however, would not be what it is without the painting part ... The formula: 'art = intuition' is irrelevant to Borcic, more important for him is the mathematic sequence: 'using structural features of the visual, all the way to the rationality of the real'. We can follow the abstraction, the process of reshaping objects in terms of reconstructing their essence as notion of an object. Objects such as chairs, doors or the space of an atelier as spiritual space are markers of the spirit, but at the same time of the real space."
The Preseren Award this years amounts to SIT 4.3m (EUR 18,000), while the minor Preseren Fund Award amounts to SIT 1.43m (EUR 6,000), as laid down in the act on the Preseren Fund.
The recipients of the Preseren Fund Award will be selected among the candidates at the meetings that will be held in December and in January.
The Preseren Fund chose the recipients of the prestigious Preseren Award and the nominees for the Preseren Fund Award from a list of 110 proposed candidates, exclusively on the basis of the proposals of the 36 experts making up the commissions for individuals art fields.
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