DUNJA ZUPANČIČ :: MIHA TURŠIČ :: DRAGAN ŽIVADINOV

Edvard Stepančič’s levitational construction is one of the central artistic products of Constructivist thinking and also an inalienable part of the integral artwork  Trieste Constructivist Ambient from 1927.

Besides Stepančič, the other people behind the Trieste Constructivist Ambient are Vlah, Carmelich and Černigoj. Trieste Constructivist Ambient is a complex sum and summary of grouped, universal intellect in overcoming the last problematic planetary force in art – gravitation.

Stepančič’s construction expresses direct, functional beauty. The levitating construction in a Constructivist ambient undoes the simplified thesis about the limitations of Constructivist expression. Willi Nurenberg wrote in the art review Tank in 1927: “Young artists hung the construction on transparent threads so that the levitating construction would raise spectators’ spirits.”