The first visit to this year’s Month of photography i did was attending the opening of the exhibition of Branko Lenart in Galerija Herman Pečarič in Piran. It comes to look obvious that it is written in this post about Lenart’s exhibition who is a Slovene photographer living in Austria but I decided to do it just lately. The major reason for so is to present further the suspicious spots in this festival I wrote about in the previous post.
Branko Lenart is an old school photographer with a vast production an some very interesting achievements in the past. Today it seems like his work is repeating forms and formulas of the old days and (maybe it is just me) real transformation, deconstruction or re-articulation cannot be noticed. Still it wouldn’t be right to neglect his mastery and sensitivity but on the other hand qualitative variability among his photographs should be noted as well because it makes his project not consistent as one would expect.
The exhibition Piran does a perfect example of told above. Authors sensible, sensitive and very personal highlighting of features of the city to which the series presented is dedicated meet us through known formulas that sometimes perhaps look like cheap tricks to fascinate audience. Anyway the series is meant to be an homage to the city and in as such a pleasant acquisition. But in form of a book still boring enough to become a gift for esteemed visitors from all over the world.
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