Metlikovičeve I L U M I N A C I J E
Matej Metlikovič je izbor svojih akrilov na papirju za koledar leta 2025 naslovil Iluminacije. Ta beseda vzbudi aluzijo tako na srednjeveške rokopise kot na Rimbauda, ampak pri Metlikoviču se te iluminacije ne povezujejo s tekstom; tem podobam sam pravi »iluminacije knjige mojega življenja«. Iluminacija dobesedno pomeni razsvetlitev; te podobe so svetlobni prebliski v fizičnem kot tudi v metafizičnem, duhovnem smislu – ena od slik ima celo naslov Čudobitje svetlobe ...
Vse je zelo muzikalno, v teh slikah je veliko glasbe. Ni naključje, da slikar vedno ustvarja ob glasbi. Posebej ljubi Messiaena, Philipa Glassa, Leonarda Cohena, Pink Floyde. Način, kako figura vznika iz abstrakcije, se zanj povezuje z načinom, kako »slika prihaja iz duše«, kakor pravi. Govori o ustvarjanju iz središča in slike imajo največkrat svetlobni in energijski poudarek v središču; kot bi hotel slikar vizualizirati poklon besedam, ki jih je nekoč napisal Srečko Kosovel: »Kajti kdor instinktivno ustvarja, ustvarja iz napona in centralne sile vesoljstva, ustvarja, zato da se izživlja v brezkončno, neomejeno svobodo, zato da postane njegova zavest brezmejna in neskončna«.
Miklavž Komelj
iz spremnega besedila v koledarju
Matej Metlikovič titled his selection of acrylics on paper for the 2025 calendar Illuminations. This word evokes allusions to both medieval manuscripts and Rimbaud, but in Metlikovič’s case, these illuminations are not tied to any text; he refers to these images as "illuminations of the book of my life". Illumination literally means "enlightenment"; these images are flashes of light – both in the physical and metaphysical, spiritual sense ...
Everything is very musical, and there is a lot of music in these paintings. It’s no coincidence that the artist always creates to music. He particularly loves Messiaen, Philip Glass, Leonard Cohen, and Pink Floyd. The way the figure emerges from the abstraction, for him, is connected to how the “painting comes from the soul,” as he puts it. He speaks of creating from the center, and the paintings often have a focus of light and energy in the center, as if the artist is visualizing a homage to the words once written by the Slovenian poet Srečko Kosovel: “For whoever creates instinctively creates from the tension and central force of the universe, creates to indulge in the infinite, unbounded freedom, so that their consciousness becomes limitless and infinite.”
Miklavž Komelj
from the accompanying text in the calendar
Everything is very musical, and there is a lot of music in these paintings. It’s no coincidence that the artist always creates to music. He particularly loves Messiaen, Philip Glass, Leonard Cohen, and Pink Floyd. The way the figure emerges from the abstraction, for him, is connected to how the “painting comes from the soul,” as he puts it. He speaks of creating from the center, and the paintings often have a focus of light and energy in the center, as if the artist is visualizing a homage to the words once written by the Slovenian poet Srečko Kosovel: “For whoever creates instinctively creates from the tension and central force of the universe, creates to indulge in the infinite, unbounded freedom, so that their consciousness becomes limitless and infinite.”
Miklavž Komelj
from the accompanying text in the calendar
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