Jana Zanoskar (1963) - Covid

Anno 2019
Mixed technique: acrylic on canvas
Stretching with frame
Signed Jana Zanoskar

Critique & Exhibitions
CRITIC’S NOTE - BIOGRAPHY
In the civil registry Miriana Zanoskar, artistic name Jana Zanoskar. Graduated in 1963 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana with a five-year program and a final thesis titled "Color in Art, Optics, Chemistry and Physics."
With my arrival in Italy I exhibited at Galleria 14 in Florence, receiving 2 gold medals. In the following years I participated in collective exhibitions in various locations of Lunigiana; art in Tuscany at that time was lively and attracted public interest.
Many years I spent following Giulia Silato, exhibiting in historic buildings all over Italy. The exhibitions were well organized in historically important and artistically notable places but, above all, without a future.
At the twenty-fifth jubilee I exhibited together with my colleagues in Ljubljana, Kranj, and later also in Rome.
With Stefano Sichel I found an artistic agreement, the possibility to exhibit abroad and all year in his gallery.

THE SUBJECTS vary with the ideas of the moment; I have always been a surrealist, and naturally also an abstract artist with a few frills or nods to reality, as dreamlike references.
In recent years I returned to realism, painting tattooed nudes, and with the large canvases I approached the Earth's climatic situation, as in "The Lost World" and the unknown world of our soul, as in the painting "The Doors of Time."
The TECHNIQUES I have used over the years are the most varied. I began with oil paintings, then continued with acrylic, with reclaimed materials to be conglomerated into the painting — old clocks, woods weathered by time, vitrified varnishes, ropes, nails and string.
(Submitted to Mr. Cairo of Mondadori)

INFORMATIVE CARD
surname: Zanoskar -
first name: Miriana - artistic name Jana
Born on December 1, 1935 in Ljubljana, former Yugoslavia, now Slovenia.
Residing in Italy, in Celleno (Viterbo) at the retirement home Villa Acquaforte
www.janazanoskar.it
E-mail: jana.zanoskar@alice.it

Relationship with galleries over the years 2018 and 2019:
Centro ARTE MODERNA di Sbrana Massimiliano, Lungarno Mediceo, Pisa
Galleria d'Arte di Stefano Sichel, Castellarquato (PC)

Prices per painting:
from 50 to 80 cm 4,000.00 €
from 120x100 cm 6,000.00 €
from 250x230 cm 25,000.00 €

In the years 2018 and 2019 I held two solo exhibitions at the Centro Arte Moderna in Pisa.
Ongoing gallery exposure by Stefano Sichel and collective exhibitions always with Stefano Sichel abroad.

"Jana Zanoskar, painter of mysterious moments, uses with wisdom forms, signs and colors to transfigure the real in a lyrically objective key.
In her abstract research, the artist shows an inquisitive conscience, expressed in entirely new expressive formulas. She asserts thus the sense of form as pure vitality, bearing witness to the abstract sound of color, and the rhythm of volumetries, weaving a loving dialogue with the chromatic matter."
Paolo Levi

She was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, a city linked to the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, but for many years transplanted to Italy. Lives and works in Podenzana, in Lunigiana.
Magic painting, between abstraction and surrealism.
Klee drew from Jugendstil, the French Art Nouveau. And Zanoskar also senses the reflections of Floral and Liberty, but accords them to the spark of her fantasy, to the sense of the fantastic, which guides all her research in a kaleidoscope of forms floating and colors changing according to angles.
In the swirl of the twentieth-century isms, in the Ligurian-Tuscan painting landscape, Jana Zanoskar’s activity manages to fascinate the viewer, not least for the restlessness never separated from a vital core of poetry.
She is recognizable, always distinguishable, precisely for this ability to evoke magical reveries. Lives and works in Lunigiana.
R. Bertoli

The artist, of Slovenian origin, places herself between Oriental Symbolism, of aniconic nature, and Western iconoclasm, the synthesis of which is fatal because it engraves in a transfiguring key on images that become abstract, exactly as in the best-known twentieth-century European artistic trends. Her works thus release a Central European area that makes them appealing to a cultured, sensitive audience familiar with modernist demands.
The pronounced predilection for abstract and geometric forms undoubtedly derives from a stylizing taste, giving birth to Abstraction and the great painting of Wassily Kandinsky, who clearly influences her. In Jana’s case it is also true that the material richness, produced by integrating painting with materials of various nature and provenance, and the fullness of chromatic pastes, continually reinvented, betray a sure mastery of expressive means, suited to rendering plasticity and volume, prerogatives of our Classicism (it should not be ignored that the painter has lived for a long time near the land of Michelangelesque marbles). And one should not overthink trying to force any rationalistic reading. It is indeed evident that the themes are drawn from a continuous and uninterrupted source that flows with inexhaustible force... Fantasia, here particularly unleashed.
Driven by that ineffable mystery which is Creativity. It pours onto these canvases a flood of vivid colors that distribute seemingly at random according to geometric, irregular, plant-like patterns... spirals, whorls, irregular lanes and undulations, unsuspected angles... a monstrous creature shows its teeth... but it is only a pinball machine!!! Painterly transitions and bold plastic sequences, those of Jana, yet always graded from rich and bright tones to indicate a coral nature, an underwater background or a flowering grassy mantle.
The title of each work, repetitive and insistent on the concept of "unusual," clearly references Kandinsky’s "Untitled," but what matters most is the courage to venture into this fantastic universe of creatures of the sea, sky and earth. Triangles, Panels, Knots, Chess, Squares, Draperies, Shells (or curls of capricious rocailles?) and all that one can reasonably deduce from reading these works now also “sculpture” introduce us to a Mystical Cosmogony, which only the Third Eye of the Spirit can illuminate.
Giulia Sillato

In 1963 I graduated from the Academy of Ljubljana (Slovenia, former Yugoslavia)
In 1965 I began to exhibit at the Civic Gallery of Modern Art of Ljubljana, earning a permanent exhibition at the City Museum.
In the 1970s I moved to Italy where the City of Florence awarded me prizes and recognitions in a series of Art events and competitions. I also undertook teaching Artistic Disciplines at state middle schools, after the conversion of the tenure obtained in Ljubljana, and concurrently cultivated Ceramic Art with specialized courses.
There are the large decorative ceramic panels from those years, manufactured on commission for the facades of numerous public and private buildings.

1975 Galleria 14, Florence
1975 Church of Santa Maria della Quercia - Cloister,
Aulla (Massa Carrara)
1976 Town Hall - Council Chamber, Aulla (Massa Carrara)
1979 Arte Fiera, Carrara
1980 Tour of France with a stop in Paris
1996 International Gallery, Viareggio (Lucca)
1996 Town Hall (Massa Carrara) - Council Chamber, Aulla
1997 Town Hall - Council Chamber, Pontremoli (Massa Carrara)
1997 Mercadante Gallery, Costa Smeralda (Sassari)
1997 Town Hall - Council Chamber, Sarzana (La Spezia)
1998 Navicello Gallery, Torre del Lago Puini (Lucca)
1998 International Gallery, Viareggio (Lucca)
1998 Racecourse, Montecatini Terme (Pistoia)
1998 Town Hall - Tau Cloister, Altopascio (Lucca)
1999 Mercadante Gallery, Costa Smeralda (Sassari)
2000 Tourism Promotion Company, Massa
2000 Hotel Principe, Venice
2000 Town Hall - Council Chamber, Montecatini Terme (Pistoia)
2000 International Gallery, Viareggio (Lucca)
2001 Gallery del Torchio, Rome
2001 Studio d'Arte, Venice
2001 Studio d'Arte, Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza)

2001 Tourism Promotion Company, Massa
2001 Small Gallery, Kranj (Slovenia)
2001 Town Hall - Tau Cloister, Altopascio (Lucca)
Republic of San Marino
2001 Town Hall - Council Chamber, Marina di Massa
2002 Tourism Promotion Company, Massa
2002 Town Hall - Council Chamber, Bolsena (Viterbo)
2002 Mercadante Gallery, Levanto (La Spezia)
2003 Viareggio Carnival (Lucca)
2003 Town Hall - Council Chamber, Bolsena (Viterbo)

Since 1999, rediscovered by sector professionals, in particular Giulia Sillato, Art Historian of the Longhian School, I have exercised my exhibition activity among the most prestigious Historic Homes in Italy and national-level Art Galleries that have requested my works to present them at important Auction Houses.

1999 Rocca di Giovanni Della Rovere, Senigallia (Ancona)
1999 Palazzo Ducale (Ground floor of Guglielmo Gonzaga’s Apartments), Mantua
1999 Spanish Fortress, L’Aquila
1999 Villa Carlotti, Caprino Veronese (Verona)
2000 Palazzo dei Capitani del Popolo, Ascoli Piceno
2000 Rocca di Caterina Sforza, Forlì
2000 Palazzo dei Priori, Assisi Perugia)
2000 Abbey of San Nilo, Grottaferrata (Rome)
2001 Ancient Castle by the Sea, Rapallo (Genoa)
2001 The Four Famous “Castelli Romani”
in Contemporary:
Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati (Rome)
Villa Tuscolana, Frascati (Rome)
Villa Falconieri, Frascati (Rome)
Ancient Granary Borghese, Artena (Rome)
2002 Palazzo Pallavicini Rospiglioso at the Quirinale
(Rome)
2002 Crypt of the Basilica of Santa Croce (Florence)
2002 Casina Pompeiana at Riva di Chiaia (Naples)