Noravision Gallery Presents: NORAVISION SCULPTURE PARC International Sculpture Day 2025
April 25, 2025 | 11:00–20:00 | Noravision Gallery & Noravision Sculpture Park, Kranj
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Noravision Gallery is pleased to announce the official opening of Noravision Sculpture Park, a permanent outdoor extension of its exhibition space, dedicated to the encounter between sculptural and natural environments. This inaugural event, held in celebration of International Sculpture Day 2025, invites the public to a full-day program featuring an artist talk, open exhibition visits, and an evening gathering.
🗓 Date: Friday, April 25, 2025
🕚 Time: 11:00–20:00
📍 Location: Noravision Gallery and Garden, Ljubljana
PROGRAM
11:00 – Opening & Artist Talk
11:30–17:30 – Free Public Visit of Noravision Sculpture Parc
18:00 – Evening Artist Talk & Informal Gathering (until 20:00)
EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
The Noravision Sculpture Parc reflects a long-standing vision of integrating art and landscape—inviting dialogue between materials, forms, time, and the elements. It is modestly inspired by the spirit of Niki de Saint Phalle’s Tarot Garden and Gaudí’s Parc Güell, yet rooted in the Slovenian terrain and spirit.
Newly introduced works include:
- The Torso of a Young Girl Transforming into a Woman – A Man and a Woman
- Branches Eternalised No. 1–3
- Dialogues Between Stone and Wood – a new series exploring organic hybridity
These new pieces stand alongside earlier monumental polyester works such as the Sarcophages series (1985–1990), with its open, weathered structures inspired by gisants and the expressive tomb effigies of Germain Pilon. One iconic piece, Sarcophage pour l’Amour Immortel (1990), was first shown at the Salon Figuration Critique at the Grand Palais, Paris.
The exhibition also presents ongoing wooden interventions in the forest environment—such as Mon Géant Endormi, an juxtaposition of an hundred years old horizontally lying beech tree with sand and natural surroundings. These site-specific works engage in minimalist dialogue with sand, trees, and water, transforming natural space into meditative encounters.
CONTINUING SERIES
The exhibition concludes with a new presentation of the Priestesses series (1997–), minimalist sculptural forms with a polished, closed structure. Created using molds for small editions, these works reflect Eastern philosophy and meditation practices.
The Priestesses are part of a larger, unrealized project:
“72 Guardians of Peace: Men and Women” – a floating sculptural installation conceptually developed for Lake Bled, and first presented as a proposal at INTART Bohinj in 1995. This visionary project envisions a constellation of peaceful presences hovering between water and spirit.
CONTEXT
The symbolic date of April 25 aligns with the celebration of International Sculpture Day and marks the eve of The Day of Resistance Against the Occupier, a national Slovenian holiday. It commemorates the founding of the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People (April 26, 1941), which—at its origin—actively involved cultural workers. Over time, cultural voices were pushed aside from political decision-making. This event honors that early spirit of creative resistance and reclaims the role of the artist in the public sphere.
Noravision Sculpture Parc has been realized with the support of Zoran Janežič, multimedia sculptor and president of the Association of Artists Working in Public Space in 2024,, a branch of ZDSLU, and in connection with the International Sculpture Center (Hamilton, New Jersey).
The artist and founder of Noravision Gallery and Noravision Sculpture Parc will lead us on a journey through her sculptural landscape—where robust wooden forms stand in dialogue with more delicate creations shaped from a rich diversity of materials. From early works in polyester resin, such as the Sarcophages and Priestesses series, to her most recent explorations in natural media—wood and stone—her evolving language of form weaves together figurative distortion and abstract expression.
Ceramic and terracotta pieces, though rooted in earlier periods of her work, remain ever-present, echoing a timeless surreal and fantastical thread—vivid in color, rich in imagination.
This poetic passage through time reveals a world where myth, memory, and matter converge in a continuous act of transformation.