Author Description

The exhibition NAME - Readymade by three Slovenian artists - who all changed their names to Janez Janša in the summer of 2007 - is focused on the acts of changing one's personal name and the effects of such gesture. Works exhibited are generated by the reality itself. Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša cut right in the midst of their own realities and the reality of the space and time, in which they work. For this purpose they used procedures typical for art - transformation, translation, representation and mimicry. They turned around the classical relational scheme between art and life as it was developed in the 20th century. Art in previous century is redefined by way of reality entering into artistic contexts without mediation (so that Badiou can define the 20th century as the passion for the real), while Janša, Janša and Janša want to achieve the opposite so that their methods cut deeply into their material lives and the lives of their immediate surrounding.