In Memory of Time — a retrospective in Laško
An opening report on the artist’s first solo postgraduate retrospective at the Laško Cultural Centre, with a conversation between art critic Mario Berdič and the artist on rhythm, entropy and the memory of time.
What is rhythm? What conditions the life or death of a system? What is memory, and what is entropy? These are the fundamental themes of the works exhibited by the young academic sculptor Januš Suša, who on Friday, 20 September at 6 p.m. presented a retrospective of his work in the exhibition space of the Laško Cultural Centre.
Januš Suša is a young artist who develops his talents above all in the visual and musical arts. At the Laško Cultural Centre he presents the exhibition In Memory of Time, of which he says it is a kind of personal meditation on the theme of life, death and action. He describes it as a point-of-departure work that sets out his current study of rhythm and entropy as operative parameters of a living system.
The event drew many visitors, who admired the artist’s works. The opening began with a conversation between the art critic Mario Berdič and the young artist, which broadly outlined the author’s practice to date.
Of the artist, the critic said the following: “At his first solo postgraduate exhibition, academic sculptor Januš Suša presents a selection of works from all phases of his creation, from the conceptual to the figural, characterised by a parallel study of the connection between visual and musical elements, especially in the field of rhythm. Through his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (ALUO) in Ljubljana, in the Department of Sculpture, and his parallel studies at the Academy of Music, in writing his diploma thesis In Memory of Time: The Modularity of Form he devoted himself analytically to the logic of rhythm and to the mutual relationships between visual and musical theory — incorporating also the phenomenon of entropy, which by definition is the gradual degeneration of an ordered system towards chaos: a technical term for irreversible decay across fields such as thermodynamics, sociology and even informatics.”
The opening was accompanied by a musical programme that further enriched the atmosphere, provided by members of the La’Klasik society, Nika Deželak and Špela Šrgan. The conversation was followed by a viewing of the exhibition, where Suša — with commentary by Berdič — presented the selection of works in more detail, including his own diploma work.
Of that work, the artist says: “The work can be understood as a representation of every living system, to which time and its own rhythm are given. That rhythm enables, dictates and determines its life; death is inevitable, and the viewer is given this insight as a fragment in the memory of time.”
Visitors were invited to form their own impression and to become better acquainted with the artist’s works. The exhibition remained open until December 2024.