matejka belle art
matejka belle art
matejka belle art
matejka belle art
matejka belle art
Matejka Bellé Art
Sculptor Matejka Bellè has for some time devoted herself exclusively to sculpting stone, which in the Karst natural environment is both ubiquitous and a universally useful material deeply entrenched in Karst folk traditions in building, stonecutting, and art.
She has studied in Australia and India, whose ancient traditions influence the artist more in a spiritual than an artistic sense.
She has studied in Australia and India, whose ancient traditions influence the artist more in a spiritual than an artistic sense.
biography
Studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. Has traveled extensively through India, Australia... Lives and works in the Karst region of Slovenia...
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The artist’s works are imbued with an aesthetic and positive experiencing of nature in all the forms it appears in. Perhaps most specific in this connection is her view that everything that exists is beautiful, especially every person. “Are we not all beautiful?”
The Karst—the land of stone
The word stone, in relation to human inhabitance in the Karst region, contains a number of very interesting aspects of meaning. It is rare to find a land where stone and humans live in such coexistence with one another.
Geographically the Karst is a rolling terrain rising above the Gulf of Trieste and the Vipava Valley. The Slovene word “Kras” is of pre-Indo-European origin, based on the concept Karra (stone).
In antiquity the region was called Carsu-radius, later Carso, Carsus.
In Italian it is called Carso, while the Germans call the region Karst, which is also the internationally accepted term in the geological and geographical sciences. And in the Karst lives the “Kraševec”—the inhabitant of the region, who is also like a rock—hard and yet infinitely sensitive.
Geographically the Karst is a rolling terrain rising above the Gulf of Trieste and the Vipava Valley. The Slovene word “Kras” is of pre-Indo-European origin, based on the concept Karra (stone).
In antiquity the region was called Carsu-radius, later Carso, Carsus.
In Italian it is called Carso, while the Germans call the region Karst, which is also the internationally accepted term in the geological and geographical sciences. And in the Karst lives the “Kraševec”—the inhabitant of the region, who is also like a rock—hard and yet infinitely sensitive.