Jana Zanoskar (1963) - Covid

Anno 2010
Mixed technique: acrylic on canvas
Stretched canvas
Signed Jana Zanoskar

Critique & Exhibitions
CRITICAL NOTE - BIOGRAPHICAL
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 the 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.
Many years I spent following Giulia Silato, exhibiting in historic palaces all over Italy. The exhibitions were well organized in historically important and artistically notable venues but first of 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 throughout the year 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 reminder of reality, as dreamlike allusions. In recent years I returned to realism, painting tattooed nudes, and with the large canvases I approached the climate 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 salvaged materials to be incorporated into the painting—old clocks, timéd wood, vitrified paints, ropes, nails and string.
(Sent to Mr. Cairo of Mondadori)

INFORMATION SHEET
surname: Zanoskar -
first name: Miriana - stage name Jana
Born December 1, 1935 in Ljubljana, former Yugoslavia, now Slovenia.
Residing in Italy, in Celleno (Viterbo) at the nursing 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 for a 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.
Continued gallery exposure with Stefano Sichel and group exhibitions always with Stefano Sichel abroad.

"Jana Zanoskar, painter of mysterious moments on1nc1, 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 consciousness, expressed in entirely new expressive formulas. She asserts thus the sense of form as pure vitality, witnessing the abstract sound of color, and the rhythm of the volumes, 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. She lives and works in Podenzana, Lunigiana.
Magical painting, between abstraction and surrealism.
Klee treasured Jugendstil, the French Art Nouveau. And Zanoskar also senses the reflections of the Floral and Liberty, but adapts them to the spark of her fantasy, to the sense of the fantastic that guides her entire research in a kaleidoscope of floating shapes and colors that change according to the angles.
In the swirl of twentieth-century isms, in the panorama of Ligurian–Tuscany painting of research, Jana Zanoskar’s activity manages to fascinate the viewer, not least for the restlessness never separated from a vital core of poetry.
Her work is recognizable, always distinguishable, precisely for this ability to evoke magical motifs. She lives and works in Lunigiana.
R. Bertoli

The artist, of Slovenian origin, places herself between Eastern Symbolism, of aniconic nature, and Western iconism, whose synthesis is fatal because it effects a transfigurative key on images that become abstract, exactly as in the best-known artistic trends of European modernity. Her works thus unleash a Central European area that makes them appealing to a cultured, sensitive audience familiar with modernist concerns.
The pronounced predisposition for abstract and geometric forms undoubtedly derives from a stylizing taste, giving rise 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 nature and origin, and the fullness of the color pastes, continually reinvented, reveal a sure mastery of expressive means, suitable to render plasticity and volume, prerogatives of our Classicism (it should not be forgotten that the painter has lived for a long time near the land of Michelangelesque marbles). And it is not necessary to strain to force any rationalistic reading. It is evident that the themes are drawn from a continuous, uninterrupted source that flows with inexhaustible energy... fantasy, here particularly unleashed.
Driven by that ineffable mystery which is Creativity. It pours over these canvases a flood of bright colors that distribute themselves apparently randomly according to geometric, irregular, plant-like patterns... swirls, whorls, irregular lanes and wavy lines, unsuspected angles... a monstrous creature shows its teeth... but it is only a lottery machine!!! Painterly transitions and bold plastic scans, those of Jana, but always graduated from full, brilliant tones to indicate a coral-like nature, a submarine seabed or a lush, flowering meadow.
The title of each work, repetitive and insistent on the concept of the unusual, makes a clear reference to Kandinsky’s “Untitled,” but what matters most is the courage to venture into this fantastical universe of sea, sky and earth creatures. Triangles, Panelling, Knots, Chess, Squares, Draperies, Shells (or curls of capricious rocailles?) and everything that can reasonably be inferred from reading these “paintings” now also “sculpture” introduce us to a Mystical Cosmogony, which only the Third Eye – that of the Spirit – can illuminate.
Giulia Sillato

In 1963 I graduated from the Academy of Ljubljana (Slovenia, ex-Yugoslavia)
In 1965 I began exhibiting 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 in state middle schools, after the change of ownership obtained in Ljubljana, and concurrently I pursued Ceramic Art with specialized courses.
During those years I created large decorative ceramic panels, works commissioned 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 Gallery "Il Navicello": Torre del Lago Puccini
(Lucca)
1998 International Gallery, Viareggio (Lucca)
1998 Hippodrome, Montecatini Terme (Pistoia)
1998 Town Hall - Cloister of TAU,
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 - Cloister of TAU, Altopascio
(Lucca)
2001 Palazzo dei Capitani del Popolo,
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 professionals in the field, especially Giulia Sillato, Art Historian of the Longhian School, I have carried out my exhibition activity among Italy’s most prestigious Historic Homes and nationally recognized 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 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 on the Sea, Rapallo (Genoa)
2001 Four famous "Castelli Romani" contemporaneously:
Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati (Rome)
Villa Tuscolana, Frascati (Rome)
Villa Falconieri, Frascati (Rome)
Ancient Granary Borgese, Artena (Rome)
2002 Palazzo Pallavicini Rospiglioso at the Quirinale
(Rome)
2002 Crypt of the Basilica of Santa Croce (Florence)
2002 Casina Pompeiana in Riva di Chiaia (Naples)