About the book

Krištof Zupet is better known as a painter, but his artistic creations are so intertwined that it would be unjust to reduce him to painting only. From the recollections and contemplations, gathered in his book Erotika tuje dežele, we can among other things begin to understand the power of the influence of Ivan Mrak and the sculptress Karla Bukovec - Mrak's artistic opus on his work. In his writings he mentions those who have suffered in a similar way as himself: from Michelangelo and Van Gogh to Prešeren and Balantič. He addresses them and asks for a clue or a sign that could overcome the distances of centuries. And as Dr. Denis Poniž has written in the conclusion of his afterword about the necessity of this text's presence in the Slovenian space, "so that the deaf, wolfish time will be less deaf and less wolfish."