Jana Zanoskar (1963) - Covid

Year 2010
Mixed technique: acrylic on canvas
Stretched on a frame
Signed Jana Zanoskar

Critique & Exhibitions
CRITIC'S NOTE - BIOGRAPHY
In the civil registry Miriana Zanoskar, artist name 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 collective 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 above all there was no 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 as well and year-round in his gallery.

SUBJECTS, vary with the ideas of the moment; I have always been surrealist, and naturally also an abstract painter with some embellishments or references to reality, like dreamlike references. In the last years I returned to realism, painting tattooed nudes, and with the large canvases I approached the Earth’s climatic situation, such as “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 started with oil paintings, then continued with acrylics, using reclaimed materials to incorporate into the painting—old clocks, weathered wood, glazed varnishes, cords, nails, and string.
(Sent to Mr. Cairo of Mondadori)

INFORMATION SHEET
surname: Zanoskar -
first name: Miriana - artist 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
Email: 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 2018 and 2019 I held two solo exhibitions at the Centro Arte Moderna in Pisa.
A continuous gallery presence with Stefano Sichel and exhibitions in collaboration with Stefano Sichel abroad.

"Jana Zanoskar, painter of mysterious moments, reveres forms, signs and colors with wisdom to transfigure the real into lyrically objectiva—tying abstract research with a conscious, indagating mind. She asserts 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 chromatic matter."
Paolo Levi

She was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, a city tied to the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, but for many years transplanted to Italy. She lives and works in Podenzana, Lunigiana.
Magic painting, between abstraction and surrealism.
Klee cherished Jugendstil, the French Art Nouveau. And Zanoskar also feels the reflections of Florals and Liberty, but aligns them to the spark of her imagination, to a sense of fantasy that guides all her research in a kaleidoscope of floating forms and colors that change with angles.
In the whirlwind of 20th-century “isms,” in the Ligurian-Tuscan painting panorama of research, Jana Zanoskar’s activity fascinates the viewer, not least for the restlessness never divorced from a vital core of poetry.
Her work is recognizable, always distinguishable, precisely for this capacity to evoke magic. She lives and works in Lunigiana.
R. Bertoli

The artist, of Slovenian origin, situates herself between Oriental Symbolism, of aniconic nature, and Western iconism, whose synthesis is fatal because it transfigures images into abstract form, exactly as in the best-known artistic trends of European modernism. Her works thus release a Central European aura that makes them appealing to a cultured, sensitive audience familiar with modernist concerns.
Her pronounced predisposition for abstract and geometric forms undoubtedly derives from a stylized taste, giving life to Abstract art and to Kandinsky’s great painting, who clearly influences her. In Jana’s case it is also true that the richness of material, produced by integrating painting with materials of various nature and origin, and the fullness of color pastes, continually reinvented, reveal a sure mastery of expressive means capable of rendering plasticity and volume—prerogatives of our Classicism (it should not be overlooked that the painter has lived for a long time near the land of Michelangelesque marbles). And there is no need 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... Fantasia, here particularly unleashed.
Driven by that ineffable mystery that is Creativity, she pours onto these canvases a flood of bright colors distributed in apparently casual patterns of irregular, plant-like shapes... swirls, spirals, irregular lanes and wavy lines, unsuspected angles... a monstrous creature shows its teeth... but it is only a marbles shooter!!! Bold painting passages and daring plastic scans, those of Jana, yet always tempered by full, brilliant tones to indicate a coral nature, an underwater landscape, or a blooming grassy mantle.
The title of each Work, repetitive and insistent on the concept of “unusual,” plainly references Kandinsky’s “Untitled,” but what matters most is the courage to venture into this fantastic universe of sea, sky, and earth creatures. Triangles, Tints, Knots, Chess, Squares, Draperies, Shells (or whimsically curved rocailles?) and all that can be reasonably inferred from reading 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 exhibiting at the Civic Gallery of Modern Art in Ljubljana, earning a permanent display at the City Museum.
In the 1970s I moved to Italy where the Municipality of Florence granted me prizes and recognitions in a series of Art events and competitions. I also began teaching Artistic Disciplines at State Middle Schools after transferring my title from Ljubljana, and concurrently I pursued Ceramic Art with specialized courses.
During those years I created large decorative ceramic panels, works commissioned for facades of numerous public and private buildings.

1975 Gallery 14, Florence
1975 Church of Santa Maria della Quercia - Cloister, Aulla (Massa Carrara)
1976 City Hall Palace - Council Chamber, Aulla (Massa Carrara)
1979 Arte Fiera, Carrara
1980 Tour of France with a stop in Paris
1996 International Gallery, Viareggio (Lucca)
1996 City Hall Palace (Massa Carrara) - Council Chamber, Aulla
1997 City Hall Palace - Council Chamber, Pontremoli (Massa Carrara)
1997 Mercadante Gallery, Costa Smeralda (Sassari)
1997 City 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 City Hall Palace - Cloister of TAU, Altopascio (Lucca)
1999 Mercadante Gallery, Costa Smeralda (Sassari)
2000 Tourist Promotion Company, Massa
2000 Hotel Principe, Venice
2000 City Hall Palace - Council Chamber, Montecatini Terme (Pistoia)
2000 International Gallery, Viareggio (Lucca)
2001 Torchio Gallery, Rome
2001 Art Studio, Venice
2001 Art Studio, Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza)
2001 Tourist Promotion Company, Massa
2001 Small Gallery, Kranj (Slovenia)
2001 City Hall Palace - Cloister of TAU, Altopascio (Lucca)
2001 Palazzo dei Capitani del Popolo, Republic of San Marino
2001 City Hall Palace - Council Chamber, Marina di Massa
2002 Tourist Promotion Company, Massa
2002 City Hall Palace - Council Chamber, Bolsena (Viterbo)
2002 Mercadante Gallery, Levanto (La Spezia)
2003 Viareggio Carnival (Lucca)
2003 City Hall Palace - Council Chamber, Bolsena (Viterbo)

Since 1999, rediscovered by art professionals, especially Giulia Sillato, an Art Historian of the Longhian School, I have been active in exhibiting among Italy’s most prestigious Historic Dwellings 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 Palace Ducal (Ground floor of Guglielmo Gonzaga’s Apartment), Mantua
1999 Spagnola 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 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 in Riva di Chiaia (Naples)

From 1999, reevaluated by sector professionals, in particular Giulia Sillato, Art Historian of the Longhian School, I have exercised my exhibition activity among Italy’s most prestigious Historic Homes and nationally renowned Art Galleries that requested my works to present them at important Auctions.