Jana Zanoskar (1963) - Covid

Anno 2010
Mixed technique: acrylic on canvas
Spedizione con telaio
Signed Jana Zanoskar

Critica & Exhibitions
CRITIC NOTE - BIOGRAPHY
In the civil registry Miriana Zanoskar, artistically Jana Zanoskar. Graduated in 1963 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana with a five-year duration and the final thesis titled "Color in Art, Optics, Chemistry and Physics."
With my arrival in Italy I exhibited at Galleria 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 all over Italy. The exhibitions were well organized in historically important and artistically notable places but above all with 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 and year-round in his gallery.

THE SUBJECTS vary with the ideas of the moment; I have always been a surrealist, and naturally also an abstract artist with some whim or reference to reality, as dreamlike references. In recent years I returned to realism painting tattooed nudes, and with the large paintings 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 used over the years are the most varied. I began with oil paintings, then I continued with acrylic, with salvaged materials to be embedded in the painting: old clocks, time-worn woods, vitrified varnishes, cords, nails and string.
(Reported 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.
Resident 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:
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 gallery representation by Stefano Sichel and exhibitions always with Stefano Sichel abroad.

"Jana Zanoskar, painter of mysterious moments in1nc1, uses with wisdom shapes, 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 novel expressive formulas. Thus she asserts the meaning of form as pure vitality, testifying to the abstract sound of color, and the rhythm of volumes, weaving a loving dialogue with the chromatic matter."
Paolo Levi

Born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, a city tied to the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, but long since transplanted to Italy. She lives and works in Podenzana, Lunigiana.
Magic painting, between abstraction and surrealism.
Klee treasured Jugendstil, the French Art Nouveau. And Zanoskar also feels the reflections of Floral and Liberty, but matches them to the spark of her fantasy, to the sense of the fantastic guiding all her research in a kaleidoscope of floating shapes and colors that change with the angles.
In the swirl of twentieth-century isms, in the Ligurian-Tuscan research panorama, Jana Zanoskar's activity manages to fascinate the viewer, not least for the restlessness never separated from a vital core of poetry.
She is recognizable, always distinguishable, precisely for this ability to evoke magical images. She lives and works in Lunigiana.
R. Bertoli

The artist, of Slovenian origin, places herself between Eastern Symbolism, inherently aniconic, and Western iconoclasm, whose synthesis is fateful because it penetrates in a transfigured key the images that become abstract, exactly as in the best-known artistic trends of European Modernism. Her works thus release a Central-European area that makes them appealing to a cultured, sensitive public who understands the modernist impulses.
The pronounced predisposition for abstract and geometric forms undoubtedly derives from a stylizing taste, giving life to Abstract art and the great painting of Wassily Kandinsky, who clearly influenced 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 resided for a long time near the marble lands of Michelangelo). And one should not waste time trying to force any rationalistic reading. It is evident that the themes are drawn from a continuous and uninterrupted source that flows with inexhaustible energy... Fantasia, here particularly unleashed.
Driven by that ineffable mystery that is Creativity. It pours upon these canvases a flood of bright colors distributed apparently at random according to geometric, irregular, plant-like patterns... swirls, spirals, irregular lanes and wavy lines, unsuspected angles... a monstrous creature shows its teeth... but it is only a marble-bearing toy!!! Bold painting passages and daring plastic scans, those of Jana, but always graduated from full, bright tones to indicate a coral nature, an underwater background or a grassy, flowering mantle.
The title of each work, repetitive and insistent on the concept of "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, Panels, Knots, Chess, Squares, Draperies, Shells (or curls of capricious rocailles?) and all that can reasonably be inferred from reading these paintings now also sculptures 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 exhibit 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 changing the ownership held in Ljubljana, and simultaneously cultivated Ceramics with specialized courses.
The large ceramic decorative panels from those years were commissioned works for the façades of numerous public and private buildings.

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

Since 1999, rediscovered by art professionals, in particular Giulia Sillato, Art Historian of the Scuola Longhiana, I have practiced my exhibition activity among the most prestigious Historic Homes in Italy and National-level 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 (Pianoterra dell'Appartamento di Guglielmo Gonzaga), Mantua
1999 Spanish Fort, 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 in Riva di Chiaia (Naples)