Jana Zanoskar (1963) - Covid

Year 2010
Mixed media: acrylic on canvas
Framed
Signed Jana Zanoskar

Critique & Exhibitions
CRITICAL NOTE - BIOGRAPHICAL
In the registry I am Miriana Zanoskar, artistically 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 two 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 attracted public interest.
Many years I spent following Giulia Silato, exhibiting in historic palaces throughout Italy. The exhibitions were well organized in historically important and artistically notable venues but, above all, without a future.
For 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 accord, the possibility to exhibit abroad and year-round in his gallery.

SUBJECTS vary with the ideas of the moment; I have always been a surrealist, and naturally also an abstract painter with some whim or allusion 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 very varied. I started with oil paintings, then continued with acrylic, incorporating salvage materials into the painting—old clocks, wood aged by time, glazed varnishes, ropes, nails, and twine.
(Sent to Mr. Cairo of Mondadori)

INFORMATION SHEET
surname: Zanoskar
name: Miriana - in art Jana
Born 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 in 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 shows at the Centro Arte Moderna in Pisa. Continuous gallery exhibitions by Stefano Sichel and group exhibitions always with Stefano Sichel abroad.

"Jana Zanoskar, painter of mysterious dreamlike moments, uses with wisdom forms, signs and colors to transfigure the real in a lyrically objective key. In her abstract explorations, the artist shows an investigative consciousness, manifested in expressive formulas entirely new. She asserts the sense of form as pure vitality, bearing witness to 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 Floral and Liberty styles, but tunes them to the spark of her fantasy, to the sense of the fantastic that guides all her research in a kaleidoscope of forms floating and colors changing with the angles. In the whirlwind of twentieth-century “isms,” in the landscape of Ligurian-Tuscan research painting, Jana Zanoskar’s activity manages to fascinate the viewer, if not for anything else than the restlessness never severed from a vital core of poetry.
She 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, to which it is natively non-iconic, and Western iconism, whose synthesis is fatal because it engraves in a transfiguring key the images that become abstract, exactly as in the best-known currents of European twentieth-century art. Her works thus release an area Central European in flavor, making them attractive to a cultured, perceptive audience with knowledge of modernist concerns.
The pronounced predisposition toward abstract and geometric forms certainly derives from a stylized taste, giving rise to Abstraction and to the great painting of Wassily Kandinsky, which 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 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 overlooked that the painter has lived for a long time near Michelangelesque marble lands). And one should not strain to force any rational reading. It is evident that the themes are drawn from a continuous, uninterrupted source that gushes forth with inexhaustible flow and never stops... Fantasia unleashed here, by that ineffable mystery that is Creativity. It floods these canvases with a surge of bright colors distributed apparently at random according to geometric, irregular, flora-like patterns—swirls, spirals, irregular lanes and undulations, unsuspected corners... a monstrous creature shows its teeth... but it is only a pinball machine!!! Bold painting steps and audacious plastic sequences, those of Jana, but always graduated from full, bright tones to indicate a coral-like nature, a submarine seabed, or a grassy, flowering meadow.
The title of each work, repetitive and insistent on the concept of the “unusual,” clearly references 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, Checks, Squares, Draperies, Shells (or whims of capricious rocailles?) and everything that can reasonably be inferred from reading these “paintings” now also “sculptures” introduce us to a Mystical Cosmogony that only the Third Eye—the Spirit—can illuminate.
Giulia Sillato

In 1963 I graduated from the Ljubljana Academy (Slovenia, ex 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 recognition in a series of art events and competitions. I also began teaching Artistic Disciplines in State Middle Schools, after changing the titularity obtained in Ljubljana, and simultaneously I pursued Ceramic Art with specialized courses.
During those years I created large decorative ceramic panels, works on commission for façades 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 - Closter of the 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 of the Torch, 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 - Closter of the TAU, Altopascio (Lucca)
Town Hall of the People’s Capitani, 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, particularly Giulia Sillato, an Art Historian at Scuola Longhiana, I have carried out my exhibition activity among Italy’s most prestigious Historic Homes and national-level Art Galleries that have commissioned my works to present them at major Auction Houses.

1999 Rocca di Giovanni Della Rovere, Senigallia (Ancona)
1999 Palace Ducal (Ground floor of Guglielmo Gonzaga’s Apartments), Mantua
1999 Spanish Fort, 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 Old 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)
Antico Granario Borghese, Artena (Rome)
2002 Palazzo Pallavicini Rospiglioso at the Quirinale (Rome)
2002 Crypt of the Basilica of Santa Croce (Firenze)
2002 Casina Pompeiana in Riva di Chiaia (Naples)