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IZGUBLJENO NOVO SLOVENSKO KIPARSTVO / LOST NEW SLOVENIAN SCULPTURE

….Za vselej so, denimo, izgubljena prav vsa dela Dušana Zidarja iz treh zgodnjih obdobij med letoma 1985 in 1997, saj njegovega kipa ne boste našli v prav nobeni slovenski javni zbirki. Njegova »kiparska telesa« so morda najbolj ilustrativno sledila deaconovski »prefabricirani« skulpturi in uporabi metaforičnega jezika za opredelitev človekove izkušnje skozi jezik in čute, kar je podčrtal s kompleksnimi idiomatskimi naslovi. Abstraktne sestavljene forme s poudarjeno teksturo površine in jasno slutnjo »prisotnosti« so bili artefakti z zastrtim pomenom, vtisnjenim v brazdo védenja in polje spomina, kjer se na večnem in neuničljivem alegoričnem odru kot dvojnik videza rojeva vizualna misel: ko je iztrgana iz kontekstov in podložna le intuitivni zaznavi, je lahko njen interpret le umetnost, fikcija pa orodje, s katerim se oddalji od realistične zaznave sveta le zato, da lahko ujame realno, ki je mnogo več in je mnogo globlje od gole upodobitve… 

…For example, all the works of Dušan Zidar from the three early periods between 1985 and 1997 have been lost forever, as you will not find his statue in any Slovenian public collection. His “sculptural bodies” perhaps most illustratively, followed Deacon’s  “prefabricated” sculpture and the use of metaphorical language to define human experience through language and senses, which he underlined with complex idiomatic titles. Abstract composite forms with a pronounced surface texture and a clear understanding of “presence” were artefacts with a veiled meaning imprinted in the furrow of knowledge and the field of memory, where visual thought is born on the eternal and indestructible allegorical stage as a duplicate of appearance: when torn from contexts and submissive only intuitive perception, its interpreter can only be art, and fiction a tool with which to move away from the realistic perception of the world just so that it can capture the real, which is much more and is much deeper than the naked depiction …