{"id":329843,"date":"2025-02-28T10:26:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T09:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitbratislava.com\/events\/valentin-oman-ecce-homo-2\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T11:25:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T09:25:29","slug":"valentin-oman-ecce-homo-2","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.visitbratislava.com\/de\/geschehen\/valentin-oman-ecce-homo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentin Oman: Ecce Homo"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the occasion of the 90th birthday of Valentin Oman (1935, Villach, Austria), several national and international exhibition projects will take place in 2025 as a tribute to his work.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The most extensive exhibition of this artist to date, with approximately 140 works, can be seen at the Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum in Bratislava. The presentation of selected groups of works from the most important creative periods on both floors of the museum presents a retrospective cross-section from early work in the 1960s to more recent paintings and installations. Visitors to the exhibition will embark on a journey through time spanning more than 60 years to follow the artist’s footsteps in search of the perfect fragment.<\/p>\n

\u201cEcce Homo\u201d \u2013 \u201cBehold the Man\u201d is not only the title of the exhibition, but the central theme of the
\nworks of the Carinthian Slovenian Valentin Oman. The human being in all its aspects and forms is the
\nmain focus of his work and the topos of his creative cycles. The present times show us that the theme
\nof \u201cEcce Homo\u201d remains current civilizationally, politically and in the context of the digital age, and will be in the future. The artist`s human portrayals are relief-like, multi-layered and fragmentary and are reminiscent of frescoes. The distinctive formal and material language of his works stems from
\nimaginative stimuli from nature and civilization and is based on technically complex and multi-layered
\nprocedures on which Valentin Oman worked for decades, so that the imaginative stimulus in all its
\n(im)perfect beauty and quality can be best transformed into an image.<\/p>\n

The inspiring world of natural forms plays a key role in the creation of Valentin Oman\u2019s paintings. He
\nsays, \u201cAgain and again I see patterns of my own formal language in nature.\u201d These motifs serve as a
\nsource of artistic inspiration in the creation of fragmentary panel paintings and installations. Their
\nabstract shapes motivate him to search for and develop figurative elements. In doing so, he always
\nprioritizes preserving the imperfect, the unfinished, so to say the secret.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the occasion of the 90th birthday of Valentin Oman (1935, Villach, Austria), several national and international exhibition projects will take place in 2025 as a tribute to his work. The most extensive exhibition of this artist to date, with approximately 140 works, can be seen at the Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum in Bratislava. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","acf":[],"event_date":{"start_date":1740787200,"end_date":1745193600},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitbratislava.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/329843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitbratislava.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitbratislava.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitbratislava.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/329843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329973,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitbratislava.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/329843\/revisions\/329973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitbratislava.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}