Metka Zupanič

In my recent work, I’m dealing with the art system as something opposed to an artist. Artist is struggling in an environment, which is constantly puzzling him, where the paths could lead to many dead-ends but sometimes also to the “highest throne”, which are in this case the most famous art institutions. In the art world, an artist is constantly walking through the labyrinth, not knowing, whether he will meet a Minotaur or God on the next corner…

The first known labyrinth was built by Daedalus, Greek artists, to keep the monster, Minotaur, away of people, of civilization. Later, labyrinths were used to symbolize a hard path to God, as symbolic forms of pilgrimage. This double meaning conveyed in the image of labyrinth, has stayed within cultural and visual history of mankind throughout the modern times.