Mitja Fick graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana (ALUO) in 1999. In 2002, he earned his master’s degree from the same academy with prof. Metka Krašovec. In 2003, he won the Golden Bird Award for his series of paintings titled ‚Stones‘. His paths with ALUO crossed again in 2018, when he started teaching there as an Assistant Professor. In 2023, this was followed by a promotion to Full Professor. In his works, Ficko explores the boundaries and coexistence of worlds, levels of existence and ways or styles of painting. More than the final static representation of an object or scene, this concerns a dialectic between their emergence - materialisation and disappearence - dematerialisation. To him, a painting is a process, the coexistence and intertwinement of the abstract and the figurative. Since 1997, Ficko has shown his work in solo and curated group exhibitions in Slovenia and worldwide. He lives and works between Ljubljana and Leipzig.
The ‚collage principle‘ of Ficko’s painting relocated to the structure of a painting - to multi-layering, covering and placing elements alongside each other - where the image is composed via reconstructing its spatial and compositional framework. This image composition strategies are also a response to the effects of digitalisation and its interactive, intertextual and hypertextual form and content.
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