JERNEJ FORBICI: PREKLETA LAKOTA ZA ZLATOM / DAMN HUNGER FOR GOLD (izjava: Nina Šardi)

Jernej Forbici je bil vedno močno povezan z naravo, kar se odraža tudi v njegovih slikah. Poleg osebnih ekoloških in političnih razmišljanj, na katera smo se v zadnjih letih že navadili, dobimo vtis, da je ta impulz pri njem prirojen in pogosto uživa v tem, da je v središču grandioznega spektakla: narave.
Njegov pozoren pogled se izogiba retoriki vidnega in postane prevajalec realnosti sodobnega sveta, sestavljenega iz velikih sprememb in odtujitvenih situacij, da bi doživel bistvo stvari.
V njegovih najnovejših srednje- in velikoformatnih platnih vidimo vso nemirnost lepote, nered in kaos v naravi.
S starodavno tehniko zlatih lističev, uporabo tradicionalnih slikarskih metod, močnimi barvami in nafto, igranjem s prosojnostjo in materijo se odpira sodobnosti. Nenehno opazuje in beleži spremembe in nove scenarije, ki jih danes doživlja naše okolje.
Zanimive pokrajine, ki se raztezajo od vrha do dna, pogosto vodoravno, kot da bi hotele objeti realnost, postanejo prostrana polja, kjer človek ni preprost prebivalec ali ganjen opazovalec, ampak parazit, odgovoren za dramo vsakdanjega življenja.
In tako, kot v sliki, nam Forbicijeva narava pripoveduje o sodobnem človeku, ki je sposoben najti lepoto v neredu in kaosu ... in mi ne moremo storiti nič drugega, kot da pozorno poslušamo …
Nina Šardi kuratorka

Jernej Forbici has always had a strong connection with nature, which comes through in his paintings. Beyond his personal ecological and political reflections, which we have become accustomed to over the years, one gets the impression that this impulse is innate and that he often takes pleasure in being at the centre of a grandiose spectacle: nature.
His attentive gaze shuns the rhetoric of the visible and becomes a translator of the reality of the contemporary world, made up of great changes and alienating situations, in order to experience the essence of things.
In his latest, medium and large-format canvases we see all the restlessness of beauty, disorder and chaos in nature.
Through the ancient technique of gold leaf, the use of traditional painting methods, strong colours and petrol, playing with transparencies and matter, he opens up to the contemporary. He continuously observes and records the changes and new scenarios that our environment is undergoing today.
The intriguing landscapes that extend from top to bottom, often horizontally as if to embrace reality, become vast fields where man is not a simple inhabitant or moved spectator but the parasite responsible for the drama of everyday life.
And so, as in a painting, Forbici's nature speaks to us of modern man, capable of finding beauty in disorder and chaos... and we can do nothing but listen attentively...
Nina Šardi Curator