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THE CREATIVE ONES / RTV SLOVENIJA, 2010
www.mojca-borko.si info@mojca-borko.si
Artistic world of painter Mojca Borko is a world of colours, glass and wood.
She is often combinig glass with her unique pieces of furniture and with paintings.
She developed a technique of glue glass.
I began to be involved in art of painting only when I started studying fine art.
Before that I was attending evening secondary school for design and there I came across drawing.
So I said to myself: I am bored, I would like to do something beside the job.
Then I entered Art college and grasped at a brush.
I liked this medium immensely, it attracted me strongly
and now I enjoy in it and invent new things, explore materials,
create, in short - I let my imagination ride freely.
She is inspired mostly by nature, she adores lively and strong colours.
These abstract paintings that I am creating are in fact paintings of clouds, sky.
I like the sky very much. I find clouds most remarkable.
They are an infinite source of motifs, shapes, colours.
I take a photo of clouds, print it and then paint upon those prints.
So there is a real photo of clouds, upon which I draw abstract lines, colours.
In fact, I am interested in showing some kind of energy through the painting, to be able to give some kind of message.
Lately she is mostly exploring combinations of three materials: wood, glass and canvas.
She has joined all three in the cycle Fusion.
I actually made a two-sided painting, framed in a wooden frame, that I made by myself.
And then I got the idea to cut out the middle of the painting and
install glue glass in the hole, made in technique that I had invented.
The glue glasses give final touch to those paintings.
The path to new technique was guided by the desire for iridescence and playing with light.
I started pondering on how to make iridescence of colours in glass.
Namely, some time aggo I started to making stained glass, and
when you cut one piece of it and put another next to it, there is this sharp passage.
But I am interested in iridescence and soft proceeding of colours.
I had been thinking about achieving that for long time and finally did it with this technique of glue glass.
Everything we see on the picture she made by herself.
I get an idea and then go from one skilled worker to another and start to annoy and ask how to make it.
I also have joiner's master that helps me with my work and lets me
in his workshop where I can use his machinery.
I come to his workshop: "Look, this is my idea, Frenk. Tell me, can this be made?"
He looks at it and says: "Oh!"
And then he lets me at his machinery and I create there and people come to watch
what I am doing again and what is going on there, and what will come out of it.
The results are usually unusual, different, but good, interesting and people like them.
She combines glue glass with unique pieces of furniture, she makes herself as well.
But glue glass paintings are standing well by themselves, too.
These glass paintings are intended to be placed in front of a light
source - windows, doors, whatever. Because the right effect is visible when the light shines
through them. There is granulation that can be seen, or effects made by glue or pigments.
The charm of creating in this way is also unpredictability of the process.
And, of course, products' uniqueness.
While creating I realized it is most interesting to deliberately get some air in.
Then bubbles appear in that glue glass. It is again a challenge for me how to keep that
bubble in the middle of the painting also during drying. So the whole process is
in fact one big game for me. It is exploration, it is something new.
Mojca Borko has exhibited her works of art many times at home and abroad.
As she said, she has a lot more to say.
www.mojca-borko.si info@mojca-borko.si