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IZTOK ŠMAJS MUNI
Lives and works in Velenje, Slovenija
https://www.hopna.net/smajs

Iztok Šmajs-Muni is an extremely original and intriguing Slovenian
Abstract Expressionist artist, whose work vibrates with vivid lyricism.
Both his monochromatic pen and pencil drawings or his vivaciously
coloured paintings, have the magical quality of being more than
the sum of their formal or colouristic parts. One has the feeling,
when facing Iztok’s art that beyond the surface there are immense
possibilities of perception and interpretation.
The dynamic sense of movement and the interlacing yarns of colour
that weaved together form a chromatic weft of fabric, or the minute
an organised chaos of sorts. Once drawn into this nuclear dimension
abstract signs and scratches of ink that create an apparently chaotic
the colours and lines distract and disorient us; we are captives in our
pattern, together with the frenetic rhythm created by these intricate
own tunnel vision. But the more we look, the more we see and we
and delicate lines, give us a perfect illusion of space which we are
realise that we are not alone in this sensory experience, there are
inexorably drawn into; like a lens closing up on a focal point, it gets
forms and beings inspired by Iztok’s pens and brushes but created
closer and closer until we lose our sense of perspective and contact
by our minds, as if he were reading into our deepest recesses and
with the world around us. It’s as if nothing existed outside of our
mirroring our subconscious in a communion of the creative process
microscopic vision.
between the artist and the viewer. Excerpt)
In this universe, Iztok’s universe, the world is a profusion of minute
details ever moving and interconnecting at various levels of depth, in Karen Lappon (International Confederation of Art Critics
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