Touring Exhibition Tone Stojko, Theater Photography – prvič je bila na ogled v okviru Festivala Borštnikovo srečanje junija lani v SNG v Mariboru, oktobra in novembra so si jo obiskovalci lahko ogledali v Slovenskem gledališkem inštitutu, decembra pa v Anton Podbevšek Teatru v Novem mestu – bo februarja in marca gostovala v Krškem; v Kulturnem domu Krško jo bomo odprli v četrtek, 13. februarja 2025, ob 18.30.
Utrinki pogovora o gledališki fotografiji ob razstavi, 18. marca 2025, ob 18. uri v KD Krško. S Tonetom Stojkom se je pogovarjal Žiga Kump.
Razstava je pospremila izid istoimenske electronic books. Curator Tea Rogelj, MA je izmed fotografskega gradiva, objavljenega v knjigi, naredila izbor fotografij iz obdobja od leta 1969 do leta 2016. Oblikovala jo je Nina Šturm. Tone Stojko knjigo in razstavo posveča Dušanu Jovanoviću, s katerim je pričel svoje gledališko popotovanje.
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 (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.
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
Na naslovnici: Dušan Jovanović, Who sings that Sisyphus, SNG Drama Ljubljana, premiere on January 12, 1997. Photo: Tone Stojko; source: SLOGI.
