Dano Ličen will present ten 15 x 10 cm digital compositions (2016/2017) and a large format painting 150 x 100 cm (2014).

Painting Number 3., acrylic on canvas and marker, is a part of a conceptual series of ten paintings created in 2014 entitled ‘The destruction of walls’.

The digital compositions will be presented for the first time.

The connection between the exhibited works is not only found in ratios: the ratio of the exhibited works is 1:10, the size ration is 1:10, the value ratio is 1:100 and the creative medium ratio is 1:10.

With the ‘The destruction of walls’ concept Dano Ličen tried to rip the medium of the art painting from the hands of the marketing model, which treats works of art as consumable goods. Carelessly cut canvas was nailed to an unrefined board, presenting the vulgarisation of the frame which allowed the wall on which the painting was placed to become an inalienable part of the artwork. The art painting grew into the wall, it became a part of it. This established its symbolic independence from the consumer mindset which treats an art painting as a decorative object.

Dano’s digital compositions tackle questioning art as consumable goods from the other side of the coin: Dano created a personal profile with the intention of creating and placing conceptual art on Instagram. The creation of a digital composition begins with a simple photograph published on the portal by countless users every day. Rather than doing what most users do when they treat their photograph as an untouchable absolute and publish it as such, he imports the captured photograph into the most basic photo manipulation application on his smartphone. Numerous layers of manipulation lead to the creation of an artistic composition which he sends into the layer of instant culture as if the composition doesn’t differ from the millions of other photos with which it travels towards the centre of cybernetic space or as if the photo doesn’t demand anything more from the observer than a photo of a cat on a sunlit tree.

All the exhibited works are (only) named with a number. The ratio of questioning brought to the surface by the exhibited concepts is, regardless of the ratios playfully mentioned before, 1:1.