Art Critics’ Choice ... Illustrations:
Erik Mavrič

Erik Mavrič ranks among Slovenia’s most important artists working in drawing. Interested primarily in monumental drawing, his preferred medium is charcoal, a technique best suited to the themes of his artistic reflections in terms of form and symbolism. He draws discomforting scenes that appear to be woven from fantasy and a figment of the artist's imagination, but are in fact rooted in his careful observation of the structure of our world. In this series, too, he delves into the dark depths of humanity. However, whereas a few years ago he analysed the self-poisoning of society with allegories of possible dystopian futures, he here remains in the present. We gaze at an utterly violent depiction of the consequences of human self-destructiveness, rooted in the mindless glorification of power and the deification of progress.