Jurij Selan: Mountains

JURIJ SELAN: MOUNTAINS
August 4 – September 10, 2026
Glass atrium of Ljubljana Town Hall
📌EXHIBITION OPENING: Tuesday, August 4, 2026, at 7 PM
🔹Art and mountains: round table on landscape painting with Jurij Selan and Bernarda Stenovec, Wednesday, August 26, 2026, at 5 PM
In the cycle Mountains, Jurij Selan presents a selection of works in acrylic on paper, in which, as a painter and art theorist, he combines the exploration of color as the basic building block of the pictorial image with his personal experience of the mountain world, to which he, as an enthusiastic hiker and keen observer of nature, always returns. The cycle fits into the rich tradition of Slovenian landscape painting, while also enhancing it in an original way. In his works, Selan highlights the fundamental artistic fact that abstract and realistic images have the same common starting point, which merely manifests differently; this common starting point is the color plane. With an aerial view from above, from a mountain peak or ridge, he meticulously paints picturesque views of the Slovenian high mountains with exceptional precision. From a distance, the scenes appear distinctly realistic, but upon closer inspection, they reveal themselves as a network of independent color planes that function as an abstract composition. The cycle Mountains is thus not only a tribute to the Slovenian alpine landscape but also a profound artistic reflection in which the tradition of the landscape motif and the author's personal experience of space creatively intertwine with his exceptional visual sensibility and fundamental questions of artistic form.
BERNARDA STENOVE
DR.