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As part of the online promotional campaign Forward into the past, which is jointly organized by the Association of Museums of Slovenia, the Service for Movable Heritage and Museums at the National Museum of Slovenia and, of course, all participating Slovenian museums and galleries, it takes place twice a year, in spring and winter, in digital the environment. With it, we always draw attention to the richness that our museums offer and to the fact that museums are interesting, fun and safe places for learning and entertainment.

The Intermunicipal Museum Kamnik invites you with the slogan #springinthemuseum and presents a video in which Noah Charney, an art historian, invites you to visit the international art project Dobre novice, in which art is intertwined with ecology and the relationship to our planet.

The Dobra Novice art project takes place from March 16 to September 22 in the galleries Miha Maleš, Prečna and Dika, as well as in the museum at Zaprice Castle in Kamnik and in the Volčji Potok Arboretum.

It is utopian to imagine a world where human beings, as in the past, live together with nature, care for it and in return receive all the goods it has to offer. It is utopian to think that human beings could return today to another, distant time, where the sky is an absolute blue, where water is everywhere, where all the seas are crystal clear, where the seasons follow an order that has been almost forgotten today. That our planet has become a dumping ground for everything that human beings both create and discard is clear to almost everyone. It may be true that this is not happening on our own doorstep or in our neighbourhood, it may be true that humanity has not yet seen the light, but the devastating repercussions are no longer unknown to anyone. Nature calls upon us and its call is ominous – the extremes of climate that have aroused too many people from their slumber in recent decades are demanding that society as a whole clean up the rubbish it has deposited in far-flung corners of the planet, in places that have been out of sight, out of mind. Our doorsteps were clean, our water was accessible, our soil fertile. Behind the technological development of the Western world, we are left with “burial grounds” where all these things are absent. And who cares? The world is turning into chaotic, fragmented stuff as if it is now about to plunge in on itself, as if everything is being ominously guided by an unstoppable current. And how could it be otherwise, when society is becoming more and more individualised and indifferent, when empathy is disappearing, and the game of life is only played with coins and banknotes?

Participating artists:

William Sweetlove(BEL) Victor Kastelic(USA/ITA) Daniele Galliano(ITA) Pierluigi Pusole(ITA) Sergio Cascavilla(ITA) Bart Ramakers(BEL) Garrett Speirs(USA) Elke Warth(GER) Francesco Di Lernia(ITA) Mark Brest van Kempen(USA) Carel Pieter Brest van Kempen(USA) Nina Koželj(SVN) Paolo Cassara(ITA) Raja Khairallah(LBN/ITA) Tazio Kastelic(USA/ITA) Zjos Meyvis(BEL) Bodil Fox(USA) Larnie Fox(USA) Federico Caputo(ITA) Enrico T. De Paris(Italija) Ginny Speirs(USA) Philippe Badert(BEL) Bartolomeo Migliore(ITA) Paolo Cassarà(ITA) Ira Marušič(SVN) Tina Konec(SNV)

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