Jana Zanoskar (1963) - Covid

Year 2019
Mixed technique: acrylic on canvas
Stretched on frame
Signed Jana Zanoskar

Critique & Exhibitions
CRITIC'S NOTE - BIOGRAPHY
Registered as Miriana Zanoskar, artist 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."
After arriving in Italy I exhibited at Galleria 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 vibrant and of interest to the public.
I spent many years following Giulia Silato, exhibiting in historic palaces all over Italy. The exhibitions were well organized in historically important and artistically notable locations, but above all they had no 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 as well 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 reference to reality, as dreamlike recalls.
In recent years I returned to realism, painting tattooed nudes, and with the large canvases I approached Earth’s climatic situation, as in "The Lost World," and the unknown world of our souls, as in the painting "The Gates of Time."
The TECHNIQUES I have used over the years are the most varied. I began with oil paintings, then continued with acrylic, with recuperated materials to embed in the painting—old clocks, wood aged by time, glazed varnishes, ropes, nails and string.
(Sent to Mr. Cairo of Mondadori)

INFORMATIVE SHEET
surname: Zanoskar -
first name: Miriana - stage name 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 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:
up to 50 to 80 cm 4,000.00 €
up to 120x100 cm 6,000.00 €
up to 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 display with Stefano Sichel and collective exhibitions always with Stefano Sichel abroad.

"Jana Zanoskar, painter of mysterious moments, uses with wisdom forms, signs and colors to transfigure the real in a lyrically objective key.
In her abstract research, the artist shows a questioning consciousness, expressed in entirely new expressive formulas. She asserts the sense of form as pure vitality, witnessing the abstract sound of color and the rhythm of volumes, weaving an amorous 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 drew from Jugendstil, the French Art Nouveau. And Zanoskar also senses the reflections of Floral and Liberty, but tunes them to the spark of her imagination, to the sense of the fantastic that guides all her research in a kaleidoscope of floating shapes and colors that change with the angles.
In the swirl of 20th-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.
It is recognizable, always distinguishable, precisely for this ability to evoke magical feelings. She lives and works in Lunigiana.
R. Bertoli

The artist, of Slovenian origin, places herself between Eastern Symbolism, of aniconic nature, and Western iconism, the synthesis of which is fatal because it inscribes a transforming key on the images that become abstract, exactly as in the best-known artistic currents of European modernity. Her works thus release a Central European area that makes them appealing to a cultured, sensitive audience familiar with modernist concerns.
The markedly predisposition for abstract and geometric forms undoubtedly derives from a stylized taste, giving birth to Abstraction and the great painting of Vasily 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 chromatic pastes, constantly reinvented, betray a solid mastery of expressive means, aimed at rendering plasticity and volume, prerogatives of our Classicism (it should not be overlooked that the painter has lived for a long time near Michelangelo’s marble lands). And one should not strain to force any Rationalist reading. It is evident that the themes are drawn from a continuous and uninterrupted source that flows with inexhaustible pace... Fantasy, here particularly unleashed.
Driven by that ineffable mystery that is Creativity, it bathes these canvases in a flood of vibrant colors that distribute themselves seemingly randomly according to geometric, irregular, plant-like rhythms, spirals, irregular stripes and wavy channels, unsuspected angles... a “monstrous” creature shows its teeth... but it is only a marble-like ball! Paint passages and bold plastic scans, those of Jana, yet always graded from full and bright tones to suggest a coral-like nature, a submarine seabed or a flowering grassy mantle.
The title of each Work, repetitive and insistent on the concept of the “unusual,” makes explicit reference to Kandinsky’s “Untitled,” but what matters most is the courage to venture into this fantastic universe of sea, sky and earth creature. Triangles, Panels, Knots, Chess, Squares, Draperies, Shells (or whimsically capricious rocaille curls?) and everything that can be reasonably inferred from reading these “paintings” now also “sculpture” introduce us to a Mystical Cosmogony, which only the “Third Eye” of Spirit can illuminate.
Giulia Sillato

In 1963 I graduated from the Ljubljana Academy (Slovenia, former Yugoslavia)
In 1965 I began exhibiting at the Civica 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 granted me prizes and recognitions in a series of Art events and competitions. I also began teaching Artistic Disciplines at the State Middle Schools, after the change of ownership obtained in Ljubljana, and concurrently I pursued Ceramics with specialized courses.
It is from those years that the large decorative ceramic panels, pieces 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 Palace of the Municipality (Massa Carrara) - Council Chamber, Aulla
1997 Palace of the Municipality - Council Chamber, Pontremoli (Massa Carrara)
1997 Mercadante Gallery, Costa Smeralda (Sassari)
1997 Palace of the Municipality - 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 Palace of the Municipality - Chiostro dei TAU, Altopascio (Lucca)
1999 Mercadante Gallery, Costa Smeralda (Sassari)
2000 Tourism Promotion Company, Massa
2000 Hotel Principe, Venice
2000 Palace of the Municipality - 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 Palace of the Municipality - Cloister of TAU, Altopascio (Lucca)
2001 Palace of the Captains of the People, San Marino Republic
2001 Palace of the Municipality - Council Chamber, Marina di Massa
2002 Tourism Promotion Company, Massa
2002 Palace of the Municipality - Council Chamber, Bolsena (Viterbo)
2002 Mercadante Gallery, Levanto (La Spezia)
2003 Viareggio Carnival (Lucca)
2003 Palace of the Municipality - 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 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 Palace Ducale (Ground floor of the Apartment of Guglielmo Gonzaga), Mantua
1999 Spanish Fortress, L’Aquila
1999 Villa Carlotti, Caprino Veronese (Verona)
2000 Palace of the Captains of the People, 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”
in contemporanea:
Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati (Rome)
Villa Tuscolana, Frascati (Rome)
Villa Falconieri, Frascati (Rome)
Ancient Granary 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)