Damjan Komel

Biography

Born 1971 in Šempeter near Nova Gorica, Slovenia.He lives and work in Bilje and Vrtojba nearby Nova Gorica, Slovenija. Over the last years he have taken part in group exhibitions in Slovenia, Italy, Austria and Croatia.

2001-2005 Famul Stuart School of Applied Arts Ljubljana, Slovenia

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.

"The aim of art is not to objectify the haughty aims of high art but to register and imaginarily point out desires arising from our everyday life."