Author: JAŠA
Curator: Laura Rositani
Co-writer of the Script: Etan Nechin
Puppet Design: JAŠA with Meta Grgurevič
Puppet Makers: Ljubljana Puppet Theatre - Zoran Srdić, Žiga Lebar, Olga Milič, Sandra Birjukov, Marjeta Valjavec, David Klemenčič, Lorena Bukovec, Gabrijela Fleischman
Original Score: KALU
Puppeteers: Lovro Finžgar, Polona Kores, Martina Maurič Lazar
Live Music: KALU, Bowrain
Performance: Mattias Gingliano, Al tempo di Tartini, Bela Mrevlje, and others

Rekviem is an interdisciplinary work that transcends traditional art forms. By fusing visual arts, performance, architectural interventions, puppet art, poetry, and music, JAŠA creates a new comprehensive entity that blurs the lines between reality and constructed space. This approach engages all senses, allowing viewers to immerse themselves fully in the experience.

A requiem typically refers to a musical composition honoring the deceased. JAŠA’s Rekviem is a special dedication to his late father, the esteemed psychiatrist Gorazd V. Mrevlje. His father is one of three protagonists represented by marionettes, crafted by the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre according to JAŠA's design and in collaboration with artist Meta Grgurevič. The marionettes—Father, Author, and Giuseppe Tartini, the renowned 18th-century violinist and composer—inhabit a parallel, extratemporal reality, challenging the notion of an ending.

The exhibition setup encompasses most of the museum rooms at the Tartini House. JAŠA utilizes these spaces, incorporating them as ready-made objects alongside selected existing exhibit items. Combined with visual, sound, musical, and situational interventions, these spaces are transformed into living pictures, serving both as complete units and as fragments of a story woven through the entire architecture of the house.

The opening event will feature live performances by puppeteers Lovro Finžgar, Polona Kores, and Martina Maurič Lazar from the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, musicians KALU and Bowrain, performer Mattias Gingliano, the theatre group Al tempo di Tartini, Bela Mrevlje, and others.

»Casa Tartini becomes a gathering of parallels, as JAŠA defines it, a bouleversement of situations, figures and sounds. It is the architecture of a dream, which shifts and changes continuously. The house itself, its rooms overturn and move as in a magnificent Piranesi architecture. It is a dreamlike work, a precious window into the most hidden desires and conflicts.
Three is the recurring number: three are the characters and the third is the dimension of Tartini's sound, almost imperceptible but the result of a perfect harmony: the interference effect between two sounds which, if perfectly in tune, generate a third barely perceptible one. Two fragments can give life to a whole, a third dimension. 
Jaša is the conductor of this piece that comes to life and intertwines with the figures of his father and the famous violinist. And in doing so, he traces a circle, a set of parallel narratives that seemingly never met. He gives us a new score, a script rewritten according to an eternal movement.«

Laura Rositani, curator

Producer: Piran Self-Governing Community of Italian Nationals and Piran Coastal Galleries

Co-producer: Ljubljana Puppet Theatre
Technical Production and PR: Glasilka
Production: WE.ARE Inštitut
Partners: Italian Community “Giuseppe Tartini,” Tartini House
Graphic Design: Rosa Lux
Sound Design: Mario Babojelič
Technical Team of Ljubljana Puppet Theatre: Damir Radončić (sound), Danilo Korelec, Kristjan Vidner (light), Darko Nedeljković, Slobodan Ilić (scenography)
Proofreading: Noah Charney
Support: Bojana Leskovar, Vuk Ćosić

Awarded as part of the special 2023 Tartini Award at the 58th Ex-tempore Piran, JAŠA's solo exhibition is presented by the Giuseppe Tartini Italian Community.

In collaboration with the Piran Self-Governing Community of Italian Nationals, Piran Coastal Galleries, and the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre

Supported by Zavarovalnica Triglav d.d.