Tone Stojko, Theater photography, traveling exhibition in SLOGI
Deadline: October 2, 2024
- 27 November 2024
Location: Hall on the first floor of the Slovenian Theater Institute, Mestni trg 17, Ljubljana
The exhibition can be seen in the Hall on the first floor of the Slovenian Theater Institute from October 2 to November 27, 2024, on weekdays between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Free entry!
One thousand and one nights, Tone Stojko - as Scheherazade's brother - passed through the theater and stared at the continuous flow of images brought to life by the sweat, blood and tears of the actors, and with his Polyphemus eye caught light and shadows, art and life, theater and play; to overflow this, he stores boundless wealth in the depth of his gaze, where he will imprint on photographic paper, washed with diluted acid - like an old sculptor in a white working stone - the images of the only real life: the life of human dreams, which came to life in the theater, which revived the theater. (Ivo Svetina, 2002)
I am sure of one thing: if a good photographer has nothing to show, then the show has nothing to show either. Nemara was just babbling. Theater should learn from photography. She reveals the truth and bares the matter to the bone. Stojko's photography does not seduce or obscure, does not hide, does not mystify, but mercilessly reveals. She follows the advice that Gertrude gives to Polonius: "More real, less embellishment!" (Dušan Jovanović, 2002)
The stage as a scene for a photographic frame fascinated him, and the freedom of movement and play marked the creation of his own artistic vision. For Stojko, theater and artistic photography are inextricably linked, mainly because the documentation of emotionally charged events on stage, in which gestures are condensed and the atmosphere of the event can be felt in the air, represents for him much more than just material for an authentic record of the event - it offers him the possibility recreating a work of art, which takes place almost unrepeatably on stage, with its own tool – a photographic or film camera. (Dr. Marija Skočir, 2024)
Tone Stojko; source: personal archive, photo: Simon Stojko Falk.
Tone Stojko (1947) je nedvomno eden najpomembnejših slovenskih (in nekoč tudi jugoslovanskih) fotografov zadnjega pol stoletja. Med drugimi se lahko pohvali s portreti Alfreda Hitchcocka, Johna Lennona in Joko Ono, koncertnim posnetkom Tine Turner … od leta 1996 portretira vse prejemnike Prešernove nagrade in nagrade Prešernovega sklada (med slednje spada tudi sam).
Stojko se ob reportažni, dokumentarni in portretni fotografiji vseskozi izjemno predano ukvarja tudi z gledališčem. Njegov gledališki opus obsega več kot 310.000 fotografij, ki nikakor nimajo zgolj dokumentarnega značaja – četudi so izjemno pomembne za pričevanje o slovenski gledališki produkciji, tako institucionalni kot neinstitucionalni, klasični in eksperimentalni, dramskem in plesnem odru – temveč jih zaznamuje avtorsko prepoznavni, umetniški pristop.
Opening poster of the exhibition. Photo on the billboard: Dušan Jovanović, Who sings that Sisyphus, SNG Drama Ljubljana, premiere 12 January 1997. Photo: Tone Stojko; source: SLOGI. Billboard design: Nina Šturm.
The exhibition Tone Stojko, Theater Photography accompanied the release of the book of the same name electronic books. Curator Tea Rogelj, MA made a selection of photographs from the period from 1969 to 2016 from the photographic material published in the book. It was designed by Nina Šturm.
Tone Stojka dedicates the book and the exhibition to Dušan Jovanović, with whom he began his theatrical journey.
A traveling exhibition – it is, of course, different each time, adapted to each time's spatial conditions and ambience; it was shown for the first time as part of the Borštnik's Meeting Festival in June this year at SNG in Maribor - we opened at the Slovenian Theater Institute on Wednesday, October 2, 2024, at 7 p.m. with Talking about theater photography.
They are on it dr. Marija Skočir, manager and curator of Jakopič Gallery, and Tone Stojko spoke about questions such as: When does theater photography go beyond the task of documenting theater art and becomes independent, becoming a work of art itself? What does theater photography tell us about the performance and what about the photographer, about his subjective view? How does theatrical photography differ from, for example, reportage? What requirements, what approach does it require from the photographer? What happens when two arts intertwine, when one depicts the other? How to combine the here and now, the unique and unrepeatable event of the performance and the eternal capture of the moment in photography?
This year, the exhibition will also be on view at the Anton Podbevšek Theater in Novi Mesto.
Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography (Tone Stojko and Dr. Marija Skočir), 2 October 2024. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Tone Stojko, Theater photography. Opening of the exhibition and discussion about theater photography by Tone Stojko and dr. Marije Skočir, October 2, 2024 at the Slovenian Theater Institute. Photo: SLOGI.
Archive recording of the Conversation on Theater Photography
Touring Exhibition Tone Stojko, Theatre Photography/Touring Exhibition Tone Stojko, Theater Photography
Author: Tone Stojko * Curator: mag. Tea Rogelj * Designer: Nina Šturm
Translator into English: Barbara Skubic * Proofreader: Andraž Polončič Ruparčič * Proofreader for English language: Jana Renée Wilcoxen
Producer Slovenian Theater Institute (SLOGI, for: Dr. Gašper Troha), co-producer: Prodok, doo (for: Simon Stojko Falk), 2024. SLOGI is financed by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia.
Photo processing: Tone Stojko * Printing: OKVIR doo
On the cover: the opening poster of the exhibition. Photo on the billboard: Dušan Jovanović, Who sings that Sisyphus, SNG Drama Ljubljana, premiere 12 January 1997. Photo: Tone Stojko; source: SLOGI. Billboard design: Nina Šturm.
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