Damjan Komel V triletni program oddelka: KK se je vpisal leta: 2001

ARTWORK

Damjan Komel indicated the originality of the idea and of the skilful and witty formal solution in his work. The stylised forms in Carst stone and different marbles – combined with glass, bronze and gold, particularly in its »desk size« marks a cleaver slide from classic sculpture past craftsman to practical products of serial production. The author seems well aweare of this, yet with some distance and wit which only contributes to the quality of the sculpture. There is also a combination of traditional and eternalist sculptural materials (Karst stone, Marble) and quotidian additions: a cup, an apple, an inscription in gold,... It is clear that the author's intent is more than to accentuate the material aestetic appearance of the stone: by creating an opposition or even a contradiction between the stone mass, on the one hand, and human artefacts of everyday life and everyday desires, on the other, he creates a tension which simultaneously has an ironic, an inventive, and a profound effect – but in such a way that is avoids its decline into banality. The aim of art is not to objectify the haughty aims of high art but to register and imaginarely point out desires arising from our everyday life.

Group exibitions :

2008
From Material to the Form, Borgo Ampiano, ITA
Public sculptures, Novo mesto, SLO

2007
Public sculptures, Šentjanž / St.Johann, AUT
Public sculptures, Ljubljana Town Hall, SLO
Window to the world, City Art Museum Ljubljana, SLO
Window to the world, Cultural home Gorizia, ITA
- price for the sculpture
Town Library Grosuplje, SLO

2006
Sublime in the sculpture, Cultural home, Sežana, SLO
Sublime in the sculpture, Minorit monastery Piran, SLO
Stone symposium, Town of sculpture, Grosuplje, SLO
Sublime in the sculpture, Town hall, Ljubljana, SLO
Window to the world, Gallery Artes, Nova Gorica, SLO
Window to the world, Cultural home, Gorizia, ITA
Kulturama, Buje, CRO
Arhipelag 06, Nova Gorica - Gorizia, SLO-ITA
Selfportrait, Modern Gallery, Maribor, SLO

2005
The stone-carving workshop Marušiči, CRO
The eye and mind, Town hall, Ljubljana, SLO
The eye and mind, Art Gallery, Medvode, SLO

2004
The stone-carving workshop Marušiči, CRO
Faces of sculpture, Town hall, Ljubljana, SLO
»DESETKA« The Famul Stuart School group exibition,
Ljubljana Castle, SLO
Faces of sculpture, Town hall, Maribor, SLO

2003
Group exhibition - The Famul Stuart School,
Fužine Castle in Ljubljana, SLO
Competition »A small sculpture Montemagiore«, ITA
The stone-carving workshop Marušiči, CRO

2002
The stone-carving workshop »Siparis«, Umag, CRO
Group exhibition - The Famul Stuart School,
Fužine Castle in Ljubljana, SLO
Group exhibition – The Cerkno gallery, SLO
Group exhibition - Ravne na Koroškem, SLO
The stone-carving workshop Marušiči, CRO
International workshop park `n` play, Fužine castle,Ljubljana, SLO

2001
The stone-carving workshop »Siparis«, Umag, CRO

PERMANENT PUBLIC SCULPTURES:

2008
We two worriors, Borgo Ampiano, Italy
2006
Bitel (I wonna) to catch the kiss of future, Grosuplje, SLO
The bird of freedom, Stara Gora, SLO
2005
The tower, Marušiči, CRO
2004
She, Marušiči, CRO