Aljaž Celarc: I wish I was alone, so I travel (Published in July 2012)

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Title: I wish I was alone, so I travel

Artist: Aljaž Celarc

zine, 32 pages, (A5: 210 x 148 mm, 8.3 x 5.8 in), 22 b&w photographs, 2 posters edition of 40, hand numbered and signed

digital print

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Limited edition of 10 zines available for 10 euros with original B&W single edition darkroom print sized 14x21 cm. (Limited edition SOLD OUT)

I wish I was alone, so I travel is a zine of photographs of my 2010 journey to Georgia and Armenia, where I wanted to climb the highest peaks mt. Kazbek and mt. Aragats. I also wanted to document the life of both countries. I was just a beginner with no idea what I was doing. During the summer of 2012, I studied the photographs that I made on the trip. It felt like I was emotionally blind at the time, since I missed my loved one so much. I learned that one associates with landscape and people nearby: if I don’t have a home I am s stranger.

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Vernacular monument: Golf mk II (Published in April 2012)

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Artists: Jošt Bukovec, Aljaž Celarc, Dejan Kralj, Manca Medved, Eva Pavlič Seifert, Boštjan Uršič - Hanibal

zine, 30 pages, (250 x 176 mm, 9.8 x 6.9 in), inkjet print edition of 20

A short section from editor’s preface:

“Golf MK2 changed the way on how we understand the concept of mobility and space. For this and many other factors we wanted to explore how the younger generation of artists understands the role of a single consumer good becoming a monument for itself.

Golf today is a part of a stereotypical image of rural areas in Slovenia and places where suburbanized areas meet countryside. The places where we grew up. Everytime I see Golf MK2 on the road I think of a home, Dolenjska region, the place where golfs are so popular. I cannot identify all the reasons why is Golf MK2 still popular. Namely it’s known for the quality and usability. Since there are so many reasons for Golf’s success, we have been mainly focusing on the way how the car changed our way of understanding the relation between space and time.

We are discovering the visuality of a single consumer type, that changed the attitude towards consumerism and other consumer goods. The visual exploration is dealing with our own regional identification and our position in diversified post-modern society. How did the Golf MK2 become Das Auto? “

Vernacular monument: Golf MK2 from Aljaž Celarc on Vimeo.

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Aljaž Celarc: I wish I was alone, so I travel (Published in July 2012)

Vernacular monument: Golf mk II (Published in April 2012)