Biografia
Born 1971 in Šempeter near Nova Gorica, Slovenia.He lives and work in Bilje and Vrtojba nearby Nova Gorica, Slovenija. Over the last years he have taken part in group exhibitions in Slovenia, Italy, Austria and Croatia.
2001-2005 Famul Stuart School of Applied Arts Ljubljana, Slovenia
ARTWORK
Damjan Komel indicated the originality of the idea and of the skilful and witty formal solution in his work. The stylised forms in Carst stone and different marbles – combined with glass, bronze and gold, particularly in its »desk size« marks a cleaver slide from classic sculpture past craftsman to practical products of serial production. The author seems well aweare of this, yet with some distance and wit which only contributes to the quality of the sculpture. There is also a combination of traditional and eternalist sculptural materials (Karst stone, Marble) and quotidian additions: a cup, an apple, an insc
"The aim of art is not to objectify the haughty aims of high art but to register and imaginarily point out desires arising from our everyday life."