


http://www.markokovacic.org/ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCclnfRPzSb3GGcnlDZJAz1A http://markokovacic.wordpress.com/
Born in 1956 in Ljubljana. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, where he completed postgraduate studies in sculpture (M.A. in Fine Arts) in 1988. He was active in various art groups: Ana Monro Theatre (1981–1991), R IRWIN S group (1983–1985), Zlati kastrioti music & multimedia group (2000–2005). His artistic practice is characterized by a prominent interdisciplinary approach and a distinct taste for poli-media. He is using methods, strategies and procedures deriving from various artistic practices as well as the tools and languages of several media and means of expression, thus establishing a Gesamtkunst work. He is exploring and linking performance, sound, video and installations, in addition to his sculptures. In a direct or media situations he is prone to establish a symbolical space of communication in which the spectator plays an active role of decipherer of meanings, a connector and trigger of events. The levels of significance of this entire artistic practice evoke multi-facetted references and associations that are connected to preceding attainments - chiefly those of (historical) Avant-gardes as well as the individuals that stubbornly persisted in their own utopian projects. The artist brings together the old and the new - something we might call the past and the present and even the potential future. If our consciousness is the result of interactions between the present and the past, then Kovačič's artefacts tell us that our future is also an unmistakable actor in this world of fragmentary perception and crumbling relations. The past memories might fill in our holes whereas the future expectations might make our lives more bearable.
Production: 1986
The video is based on the performance of the same title. The metamorphosis of image is enabled by electronic technology. A step further from the chroma-key procedure of inserting of the front plane of the image into some other background, which invests th...
Production: 1985
Video is a document of an exhibition of two of authors sculptures made as a part of symposium by Forma viva community in Zreče. Totals and details of the statues are framed with a coloured mask.
Production: ŠKUC - Forum / koprodukcija Marijan Osole - Max, 1985
The story of the narrative is based on the genre of crime fiction. The images are filled with citations from the history of art and cinema (Man Ray, Sergei Eisenstein) and are further stratified and multiplied. The dynamics of the image fraught with typic...
Production: Marko A. Kovačič, Gledališče Ane Monro, 1984
The film with two main characters (Inspector Shwake and Doctor Marek) tells about the gracelessness of war, the manufactured causes, and the attempt to change the course of events and prevent the war. The film was originally screened as part of the Ana Mo...
Production: ŠKUC, 1984
In the manner of crime movies, hide and seek, the film moves between the genres of detective and horror and around the mysterious microfilm. It is also characterized by a touch of burlesque. It represents the atmosphere and image of its time on the Ljublj...
Production: Marko A. Kovačič, 1984
A genre counterpoint of personal and public, of provocation and seduction, which is read precisely between these cracks. (Source: DIVA Station)
Production: 1984
Video documentation visually notes the author's sculpture work made in the years between 1982 and 1984.
Production: 1984
Video je nastal v okviru razstave Back to the USA skupine R IRWIN S (katere član je bil takrat Kovačič) v Galeriji ŠKUC. Poleg dokumentarnih posnetkov z razstave in spremljajočih dogodkov, so bili kot performans uprizorjeni prizori iz slik na razstav...
Production: ŠKUC, 1983
Documentary footage of the artist's performance at Škuc Gallery in Ljubljana in 1983.
Production: Video CD, 1983
Recording of a video performance at the 1st International Video Biennale Video CD in Ljubljana, in which the video was included as a constitutive part of the event: the artist's gestures were shown from behind on monitors arranged at the edges of the venu...
Production: ŠKUC, 1983
An experimental miniature that addresses the basic building blocks of film and dissects and explores the moving image and medium of film. The body is a painter's canvas, geometric figures are mise-en-scene, performance is a study of movement, masking and...