Matjaž Geder creates his artworks spontaneously, he allows his intuition to take over, and he states that this ‘leads him through the artistic play of the irrational’ while he constructs the composition with various elements, without any preparations for his graphic print in the form of a drawing or a sketch. Sometimes he puts down a print he is satisfied with and returns to the print after a while only to add new motifs and colours. All of his works are monoprints, originals, and as such erase the border between paintings and graphic prints.
Category: TEXTS
Božidar Zrinski: Priprave na improvizacijo, MGLC 17.10. 2018
Matjaž Geder se vsakega grafičnega lista loti premišljeno in potrpežljivo, saj želi najprej obvladati snov, da bi jo lahko kasneje ustvarjalno in konceptualno nadgradil z improvizacijo. Značilno zanj je, da se pri svojem delu ne uklanja potrebam umetnostnega trga in razstavljanja, zato osebni ustvarjalni ihti pogosto prireže krila in jo z razmislekom pripravi na čas, ko bo lahko poletela brez strahu pred padcem, srečna in svobodna. Koncepte in matrice dolgo časa gnete v mislih in šele, ko se pojavi prava spodbuda, motiv ali predmet, jih odtisne, vendar jim da samo eno priložnost, da zaživijo in obstanejo, saj dela v tehniki monoprinta, ki ga kombinira z raznimi drugimi tehnikami kot so suha
igla, kolažni tisk in lesorez. Vsak monoprint je rezultat načrtne improvizacije, zato se nemalokrat zgodi, da Geder z rezultatom ni zadovoljen, saj je improvizacija odtavala po svoje ali pa preprosto ni pustila zadovoljivega odtisa. Raztrganih in uničenih odtisov je lahko veliko, a kot avtor sam ugotavlja, je to sestavni del priprav, v katere je vloženo veliko truda in premišljevanja, čeprav se zaveda, da je rezultat nepredvidljiv do trenutka, ko papir »odlepi« od matrice.
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(Slovenščina) Dr. Robert Inhof: Enkratne stiske, Monotipije Matjaža Gederja (Likovne besede, št.42, 2016)
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(Slovenščina) SLOVENSKI UMETNIKI NA 7. MEDNARODNEM TRIENALU GRAFIKE, SOFIJA, BOLGARIJA
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An ordinary life
Matjaž Geder is an art teacher, but teaching art is more than just a job to him. He considers it a vocation – literally a calling: work that he was called to perform by a variety of circumstances. As a remarkably keen observer of works of art and a perceptive reader of texts, Geder prepares himself carefully for all his lessons and art workshops. Continue reading An ordinary life
(Slovenščina) Roberto Vidali: Matjaž Geder, Juliet art magazine n.171 February-March 2015
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