Jana Zanoskar (1963) - Covid

Anno 2019
Mixed media: acrylic on canvas
Stretched canvas
Signed Jana Zanoskar

Critica & Mostre
NOTA CRITICO - BIOGRAFICA
In the registry Miriana Zanoskar, known as 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 Gallery 14 in Florence, receiving 2 gold medals. In the following years I participated in group exhibitions in various places in Lunigiana; art in Tuscany at that time was lively and of public interest.
Many years I spent following Giulia Silato, exhibiting in historic palaces across Italy. The exhibitions were well organized in historically important and artistically notable places but, above all, without a future.
On 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 of exhibiting abroad and throughout the year in his gallery.

I SUBJECTS, vary with the ideas of the moment, I have always been a surrealist, and naturally also an abstract artist with a few whims or references to reality, like dreamlike references. In recent years I returned to realism painting tattooed nudes, and with the large canvases I approached the climatic situation on Earth, 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 salvage materials to be incorporated into the painting, old clocks, wood aged by time, vitrified varnishes, cords, nails and twine.
(Ment to Mr. Cairo of Mondadori)

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

Relationship with galleries in the years 2018 and 2019:
Centro ARTE MODERNA di Sbrana Massimiliano, Lungarno Mediceo, Pisa
Gallery of Art of 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.
Continuous exhibition in the gallery by Stefano Sichel and group exhibitions always with Stefano Sichel abroad.

"Jana Zanoskar, painter of mysterious moments, uses with wisdom shapes, signs and colors to transfigure the real in a lyrically objective key.
In her abstract inquiries, the artist shows an inquisitive consciousness, expressed in entirely new expressive formulas. She thus asserts the sense of form as pure vitality, bearing witness to the abstract sound of color, and the rhythm of the 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 in Italy. She lives and works in Podenzana, in Lunigiana.
Magical painting, between abstraction and surrealism.
Klee drew from Jugendstil, the French Art Nouveau. And Zanoskar also feels the reflections of Floral and Liberty, but aligns them to the spark of her imagination, to the sense of the fantastic, which guides all her research in a kaleidoscope of forms that float and colors that change with viewing angles.
In the swirl of twentieth-century ‘isms,’ in the Ligurian-Tuscan painting scene of research, Jana Zanoskar's activity manages to captivate the viewer, if not for anything else, at least for the restlessness never separated from a vital core of poetry.
Her work is recognizable, always distinguishable, precisely for this capacity for magical evocations. She 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 carves in a transfigurative key the images that become abstract, just as in the best-known European 20th century art trends. Her works thus unleash a Central European area that makes them appealing to a cultured, sensitive audience and knowledgeable about modernist concerns.
The pronounced predisposition for abstract and geometric forms undoubtedly derives from a stylized taste, giving life to Abstract Art and the great painting of Vasilij 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 kinds and origins, and the fullness of chromatic pastes, continually reinvented, betray a sure command of expressive means, able to render 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 Michelangelo’s marble). And it is not to strain too much trying to force any rational reading. It is evident that the themes are drawn from a continuous and uninterrupted source that gushes forth with inexhaustible flow and never stops... Fantasia, here particularly unleashed.
Driven by that ineffable mystery that is Creativity. It floods these canvases with a wave of vivid colors that distribute seemingly randomly according to geometric, irregular patterns, all with a biophilic character... spirals, whorls, irregular lanes and wavy lines, unsuspected angles... a monstrous creature shows its teeth... but it is only a marble marble! Bold painting passages and daring plastic scans, those of Jana, yet always graduated from full, bright tones to indicate a coral nature, an underwater seascape, or a lush and flowering meadow.
The title of each work, repetitive and insistent on the concept of “unusual,” makes explicit reference to Kandinsky’s “Untitled,” but what matters most is the courage to venture into this fantastic universe of sea, sky and earth creatures. Triangles, Diagonals, Knots, Chess, Squares, Drapes, Shells (or curls of capricious rocaille?) and everything that can reasonably be inferred from the reading of these “paintings” 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, ex-Yugoslavia)
In 1965 I began to exhibit at the Civica Gallery of Modern Art in Ljubljana, earning a permanent exhibition at the City Museum.
In the 1970s I moved to Italy where the Municipality of Florence granted me awards and recognitions in a series of Art events and competitions. I also began teaching Artistic Disciplines at the State Middle Schools, after changing the ownership obtained in Ljubljana, and simultaneously pursued Ceramic Art with specialized courses.
During those years I created large ceramic decorative panels, works commissioned for façades of numerous public and private buildings.

1975 Gallery 14, Florence
1975 Church of Santa Maria della Quercia - Cloister, Aulla (Massa Carrara)
1976 Palace of the Municipality - Council Hall, Aulla (Massa Carrara)
1979 Arte Fiera, Carrara
1980 Tour of France with a stop in Paris
1996 International Gallery, Viareggio (Lucca)
1996 Palace of the Municipality - Council Hall, Aulla (Massa Carrara)
1997 Palace of the Municipality - Council Hall, Pontremoli (Massa Carrara)
1997 Mercadante Gallery, Costa Smeralda (Sassari)
1997 Palace of the Municipality - Council Hall, Sarzana (La Spezia)
1998 Gallery "Il Navicello": Torre del Lago Puccini (Lucca)
1998 International Gallery, Viareggio (Lucca)
1998 Hippodrome, Montecatini Terme (Pistoia)
1998 Palace of the Municipality - Cloister of the TAU, Altopascio (Lucca)
1999 Mercadante Gallery, Costa Smeralda (Sassari)
2000 Tourism Promotion Company, Massa
2000 Hotel Principe, Venice
2000 Palace of the Municipality - Council Hall, Montecatini Terme (Pistoia)
2000 International Gallery, Viareggio (Lucca)
2001 Galleria 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 Palace of the Municipality - Cloister of the TAU, Altopascio (Lucca)
2001 Palace of the Capitani del Popolo, Republic of San Marino
2001 Palace of the Municipality - Council Hall, Marina di Massa
2002 Tourism Promotion Company, Massa
2002 Palace of the Municipality - Council Hall, Bolsena (Viterbo)
2002 Mercadante Gallery, Levanto (La Spezia)
2003 Viareggio Carnival (Lucca)
2003 Palace of the Municipality - Council Hall, Bolsena (Viterbo)

Since 1999, reborn by professionals in the field, in particular Giulia Sillato, Art Historian of the Longhian School, I have exercised my exhibition activity among Italy’s most prestigious Historic Houses and nationally renowned Art Galleries that have requested my Works to present them at major Auction Houses.

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