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Colored

13 x 20 cm, 30 pages, softcover,  preview
16 €


Coloring book with the whole title Colored People and the Cacti is a response to
Ed Ruscha's book Colored People.
This book is part of the ABCED project by Artists Book Cooperative in celebration
of Ed Ruscha's 75th birthday. 



Exploded

13 x 20 cm, 40 pages, softcover,  preview
16 €


Similarly as Ed Ruscha had been documented breakdown of the typing machine in
his book Royal Road Test, I peeled the information from the website about the
destruction of the Twin Towers.
This book is part of the ABCED project by Artists Book Cooperative in celebration
of Ed Ruscha's 75th birthday.





And Not a Drop of Milk

15 x 23 cm, 40 pages, softcover,  preview
18 €


Ed Ruscha published a book entitled Various Small Fires and Milk. The cover reveals
merely the first part of the title: Various Small Fires. The full title can be read on the inside.
And Not a Drop of Milk is a book about something that does not exist. Not because we
cannot see it, but because it truly does not exist. It could be hunger.






Nowhere

15 x 23 cm, 66 pages, softcover,  preview
25 €


I have been taking photographs of these lines since 2004. At first I was surprised how
rarely the sky above us is without any. Straight lines in the sky speak of human dominance.
They also indicate that I do not live at an end point. Ljubljana is a flyover town. I was also
reminded of the time of war in Bosnia and the shelling of Belgrade. I remember hearing the
bomber planes at night. We could hear them all through the night, they were loud, we knew
they were there, we knew they carried death, and we knew we were not the target.





Strange Idea of Love

15 x 23 cm, 74 pages, softcover,  preview
25 €


Strange Idea of Love is a song performed by the band All About Eve Babitz. Eve Babitz is
the naked woman, who posed for the game of chess with Marcel Duchamp in a photo
shoot during the Duchamp retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art in 1963.
I took the photo in which I am playing a game of chess with myself in 1996. Then I glued it
on the back of the Beauty and the Beast jigsaw puzzle. I created the book Strange Idea of
Love because I found it interesting that I was fascinated by slicing the image already at
that time.





Hotel Kumrovec

15 x 23 cm, 80 pages, softcover,  preview
25 €


The receptionist at the Hotel Kumrovec is worried about the plants that are engulfing the
building. No guest has stayed in this hotel for years. The modernist architecture of the
complex looks as though it had dropped here from some other place. The only reason for
this building being here, far away from any major roads or intersections or even towns, is
that the village of Kumrovec is the birth place of Tito, the erstwhile President of the
Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia.





Wherever I am not

15 x 23 cm, 80 pages, softcover,  preview
25 €

Every day, from July 16th to August 12th 2000, a new image from another live web-cam
helped me outline a journey around Evrope. Writing greetings from places I haven't visited
allowed me to walk on the border of two worlds. At the end, I sent a letter with an
explanation of my virtual travels.
                   



                   
Monument to the Unknown Heroes

15 x 23 cm, 80 pages, softcover,  preview
25 € 

I got into the habit of cutting out newspaper photos of various groups of people who had
found themselves in particularly exceptional circumstances. The people in the pictures
represent events so out of the ordinary that they found their way into the papers.
Although these same events in many instances profoundly impacted the lives of the
people in the pictures, we never learn the people’s names.

                                             

 


Orange Cloud and Palm Trees

15 x 23 cm, 40 pages, softcover, 
preview
18 €

I took an image of a nuclear explosion and cut out the section with the fire and the smoke.
This I then chopped up into little squares and composed the orange cloud through the
book like a very simple jigsaw puzzle. Unlike the fire, the palm trees are always occupy the
entire page. They have also been cut out of the same image. They are only details, but we
can see that soon very little will remain of them. I wanted the book to be viewed like one
would watch a film.






WHORE

Publisher: International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC), Ljubljana, 2010
Softcover; unsigned, edition of 100; 18,4 x 24 cm, 36 p.
50 €


In 1977, Sanja Iveković made a book the Tragedy of a Venus, juxtaposing in it photographs
of Marilyn Monroe with her own photos. I have photographed her book, printed it out, and
stamped each page with the word whore. I put a photo of myself, also stamped with whore,
on the cover. Sanja’s work was about the relationship between fame and everyday life. Today,
with reality shows, anyone can have their five minutes of fame. Everyday life and fame are
intertwined, with money in between.





Twentysix Gasoline Stations Only

Self-Published, Ljubljana, 2010
Softcover; unsigned, edition of 100; 17,5 x 25 cm, 44 p.
50 €


From the gas station Petrol in Ljubljana where I live, the book follows a journey back to
Sarajevo where my grandfather was born.





Nine Swimming Pools Behind a Broken Glass

Self-Published, Ljubljana, 2010

Softcover; unsigned, edition of 100; 13 x 18 cm, 36 p.
50 €


I found some photos of bathers in swimming pools in some old Yugoslavian tourist
brochures. They were
taken at more or less the same time American artist Edward
Ruscha took his photographs of swimming
pools for his book Nine Swimming Pools
and a Broken Glass
(1968). The Los Angeles pools were in the
yards of luxurious
homes, private and empty. The Yugoslavian pools were their exact opposite
.






Coloured People in Black in White (Yellow)

Publisher: P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute, Ljubljana, 2010
Softcover; unsigned, edition of 150; 13 x 18 cm, 36 p.,  
40 €


Eight pieces of fruit from eight different countries are portrayed in black and white
photographs along with their negative images.  The book is an allusions on Jonathan
Monk's play on Ed Ruscha's 1972 Colored People.

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Nikjer

Self-Published, Ljubljana, 2010
Softcover; signed, open edition; 21x 15 cm, 12 p.
15 €

I have been taking photographs of the vapor trails airplanes leave behind in the sky
since 2004. At first I was surprised how rarely the sky above us is without any. Straight
lines in the sky speak of human dominance. They also indicate that I do not live at an
end point. Ljubljana is a flyover town.





The Strawberry

Self-Published, Ljubljana, 2001/2009
Softcover; signed, open edition; 23 x 21 cm, 32 p.
25 €


From April to June I was artist in residence in the "KulturKontakt Gastatelier program"
in Vienna. I wrote a postcard to my mother every day. I wrote about what I ate and even
though the cards were for her I never sent them.





Potato Leaf

Self-Published, Ljubljana, 2008
Softcover; signed, open edition; 29,7 x 21 cm, 32 p.
49 €





Berlin Zoo, 1965-2006

Self-Published, Ljubljana, 2007
Softcover; signed and numbered; First edition of 15- out of print; Second editions of 1
- out of print; Third edition of  30; 21 x 15 cm, 16 p.

15 €


The book of color photographs documents Berlin over a span of 40 years. The images are
bracketed by
two photographs of a lion dozing in captivity in the Berlin Zoo, one taken in
1965 and the other in 2006.
While Berlin struggled through momentous changes, the lion's
situation remained remarkably the same.




Dialogue in the Kitchen, Volume I.

Publisher: P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana, 2006
Softcover; signed, open edition; 21 x 29,7 cm, 32 p.
5 €


I conducted a series of interviews with eleven Slovene visual artists which point to a number
of dilemmas faced by artists today in Slovenia.

Read more (in Slovene only)

                             Links:

ABC Artists' Books Cooperative

Florence Loewy

Paul Heimbach Buch Sammlung

P.A.R.S.I.T.E. Institute

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