Shaped by the West

In the series Shaped by the West, Dino Kužnik portrays some of the most iconic symbols of the American West. Conceptually, the series stems from the artist’s experience of the westernization of Slovenia during the transition from socialism to capitalism, after its independence in the 1990s. This shifting atmosphere led to confusion over what was archetypally Slovenian, which was, according to the artist, felt most strongly by the young generation he was a part of this transition.