The academy-trained sculptor Boštjan Putrich was awarded Certificate of Excellence in the field of sculpture at the 7th International Artitudes Competition in New York this year. The Certificate was awarded by a jury composed of representatives of several American museum institutions: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (Illinois), Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge (Massachusetts)...
A well-known Slovenian artist, academy-trained sculptor Boštjan Putrih recently received a notification from the USA that he has won a "Certificate of Excellence in the field of sculptural art" at the leading international competition Art Horizons - New York in 1988....
I sometimes appear in public very often, and sometimes I don't have an exhibition for a whole year. The latter happens when I'm working in my studio most of the time – when I’m improving and clarifying my concept of work and looking for new solutions. ...
One thing has been clear to me all the time, namely, that I was quite lucky to be at the Academy just at the time when modern art was on the scene. I was interested in all new developments, in many artistic events (1965 - 1966, author's note)...
Boštjan Putrich's sculpture artwork can be described in several ways: recalling his older works and concerning numerous details of his recent works, his connections with the tradition of surrealism could be defined; we could go even further into the past and label him as a descendant and successor of the symbolist tradition...
While meeting with the sculptures and reliefs by the Slovenian sculptor Boštjan Putrich and getting to know his creative work, we are also confronted with one of those interesting dilemmas that are considerably present in the contemporary world of art. It is a matter of tradition and family tradition...
The renowned English art historian Norbert Lynton concludes his book *The Story of Modern Art by reflecting on the emergence of a pronounced ethic, reformist tendency in contemporary art and at the same time, on possible comparison of today's situation with the decadence of a hundred years ago ...
