Tamara Bregar

Tamara Bregar is a new name in modern Slovenian sculpture and this time she represents for the first time independently with a completely fresh sculptural cycle. In her work, it is evident that two challenges are faced constantly before the artist: on the one hand, the exceptional sensitivity and unpredictability of clay as a material for the creation of ceramics, and on the other, the exploration of the form. The process itself is demanding and above all unpredictable. At the beginning, the artist limits the material itself, that is clay, therefore, its base, its core, interacts with various materials that introduce diversity and multiplicity in texture, surface and shape, and in the end, the unpredictable behaviour of the material in the furnace is waiting for it.
Curator of the exhibition Saša Bučan about the artist Tamara Bregar writes: “The sculptor consistently follows his original starting point, the original form, which changes from cycle to cycle, from period to period. The original form of the shell, where many materials are played, whereby the objects effect and invite with their texture, is developing in the last form of the period. The latter, from the pure form taken from the sea, passes into the fossil decay, the remainder. What was alive died, the traces of life are blurred, only traces of traces remain. Now the shell is blurred, the wreckage, the fragmented image of something that was once a life, the absence of the original. A shell that does not exist anymore, here formally only acts as a rest, but also symbolically represents the statue of a sculptor about his own life, and even more broadly about living. ”