Jana Zanoskar (1963) - Covid

Anno 2010
Mixed technique: acrylic on canvas
Stretching with frame
Signed Jana Zanoskar

Critique & Exhibitions
CRITIC NOTE - BIOGRAPHY
In the civil registry Miriana Zanoskar, art 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 Gallery 14 in Florence, earning 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 interest to the public. For many years I traveled following Giulia Silato, exhibiting in historic palaces all over 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 to exhibit abroad and year-round in his gallery.

THE SUBJECTS vary with the ideas of the moment, I have always been surrealist, and naturally also an abstract artist with some whim or reference to reality, like dreamlike calls. In the last 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 acrylics, with recovered materials to embed in the painting—old clocks, wood aged by time, varnishes vitrified, ropes, nails, and string. (Sent to Mr. Cairo of Mondadori)

INFORMATIVE CARD
surname: Zanoskar -
name: Miriana - art name Jana
Born on December 1, 1935 in Ljubljana, in the former Yugoslavia, now Slovenia.
Residing in Italy, in Celleno (Viterbo) at the Villa Acquaforte retirement home
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:
f rom 50 to 80 cm 4,000.00 €
f rom 120x100 cm 6,000.00 €
f rom 250x230 cm 25,000.00 €

In the years 2018 and 2019 I held two solo exhibitions at the Centro Arte Moderna in Pisa. Continuous gallery exposure 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 research, the artist demonstrates a probing consciousness, expressed in entirely new expressive formulas. She asserts then the sense of form as pure vitality, bearing witness to the abstract sound of color, and the rhythm of volumes, weaving a loving dialogue with 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, Lunigiana. Magical painting, between abstraction and surrealism. Klee treasured Jugendstil, the French Art Nouveau. And Zanoskar also hears the reflections of Florals and Liberty, but tunes them to the spark of her imagination, to the sense of the fantastic, which guides all her research in a kaleidoscope of floating shapes and colors that change with the angles. In the whirlwind of twentieth-century “isms,” in the panorama of Ligurian-Tuscan research painting, Jana Zanoskar’s activity manages to fascinate the viewer, not least for the unease never detached from a vital core of poetry. It is recognizable, always distinguishable, precisely for this ability to evoke magical scenes. She lives and works in Lunigiana. R. Bertoli

The artist, of Slovenian origin, places herself between Eastern Symbolism, of aniconic nature, and Western iconoclasm, whose synthesis is fatal because it penetrates in a transfigurative key into images that become abstract, exactly as in the best-known artistic trends of twentieth-century Europe. her works thus release an Central European area that makes them attractive to a cultured, sensitive audience who understand modernist concerns.
The pronounced predisposition for abstract and geometric forms undoubtedly derives from a stylized taste, giving rise to Abstraction and the great painting of Wassily Kandinsky, which evidently influences her. In Jana’s case it is also true that the material richness, produced by integrating painting with materials of various nature and origin, and the fullness of color pastes, continually reinvented, betray a sure mastery of expressive means, capable of 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 marble). And one should not strain to force any rational interpretation. It is evident that the themes are drawn from a continuous and uninterrupted source that flows with inexhaustible energy... Fantasia, here particularly let loose. Driven by that ineffable mystery which is Creativity. It pours this onto these canvases with a flood of bright colors that distribute apparently randomly according to irregular geometric patterns, all with a phytomorphic character... curves, whorls, irregular lanes and wavy lines, unsuspected corners... a “monstrous” creature shows its teeth... but it is only a domino! Bold painting steps and daring plastic scans, those of Jana, yet always graduated from full and bright tones to indicate a coral nature, an underwater seabed or a blooming green carpet. The title of each work, repetitive and insistent on the concept of “unusual,” clearly refers to Kandinsky’s “Untitled,” but what matters most is the courage to venture into this fantastic universe of sea, sky, and earth creatures. Triangles, Tessellations, Knots, Chessboards, Squares, Draperies, Shells (or curls of capricious rocailles?) and all that can reasonably be inferred from the reading of these “paintings” now also “sculpture” lead us into a Mystical Cosmogony, which only the Third Eye – that of the Spirit – can illuminate. Giulia Sillato

In 1963 I finished my diploma at the Academy of Ljubljana (Slovenia, former Yugoslavia)
In 1965 I began to exhibit at the Civic 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 awarded me prizes and recognitions in a series of art events and competitions. I also began teaching Artistic Disciplines at State Middle Schools after the change of ownership obtained in Ljubljana, and concurrently cultivated Ceramic Art with specialized courses.
Those years saw the creation of large ceramic decorative panels, works on commission for facades of numerous public and private buildings.

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

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

1999 Rocca di Giovanni Della Rovere, Senigallia (Ancona)
1999 Palazzo Ducale (Ground floor of the Apartment of Guglielmo Gonzaga), 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 Four famous “Castelli Romani” in Contemporanea:
Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati (Rome)
Villa Tuscolana, Frascati (Rome)
Villa Falconieri, Frascati (Rome)
Ancient Granary of 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)