Jana Zanoskar (1963) - Covid

Anno 2019
Mixed technique: acrylic on canvas
Stretching with frame
Signed Jana Zanoskar

Critique & Exhibitions
CRITIC'S NOTE - BIOGRAPHY
In civil registry Miriana Zanoskar, artistically Jana Zanoskar. Graduated in 1963 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana with a five-year course and the final thesis titled “Color in Art, Optics, Chemistry and Physics.”
With my arrival 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 lively and of interest to the public.
Many years I spent following Giulia Silato, exhibiting in historic palaces throughout Italy. The exhibitions were well organized in places of historical importance and artistically remarkable, but above 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 abstractist with some whim or reference to reality, like dreamlike references. In recent years I returned to realism by painting tattooed nudes, and with the large canvases I approached the climatic situation on Earth, 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 acrylic, with salvage materials to incorporate into the painting—old clocks, wood aged by time, vitrified paints, cords, nails and string.
(Sent to Mr. Cairo of Mondadori)

INFORMATION SHEET
surname: Zanoskar -
name: Miriana - artistically Jana
Born December 1, 1935 in Ljubljana, in the former Yugoslavia, now Slovenia.
Residing in Italy, in Celleno (Viterbo) at the villa di riposo Villa Acquaforte
www.janazanoskar.it
E-mail: jana.zanoskar@alice.it

Relationship with the 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.
Continual gallery display by Stefano Sichel and group 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 an investigative consciousness, expressed in entirely new expressive formulas. She thus affirms the sense of form as pure vitality, bearing witness to the abstract sound of color, and the rhythm of the volumes, weaving an affectionate 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.
Magic painting, between abstraction and surrealism.
Klee treasured Jugendstil, the French Art Nouveau. And Zanoskar also feels the reflections of Floral and Liberty, but aligns them to the spark of her imagination, to the sense of the fantastic that guides all her research in a kaleidoscope of flitting forms and colors that change with the angles.
In the vortex of twentieth-century “isms,” in the Ligurian-Tuscan research landscape, 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 magic. She lives and works in Lunigiana.
R. Bertoli

The artist, of Slovenian origin, places herself between Oriental Symbolism, of aniconic nature, and Western iconism, whose synthesis is fatal because it imprints in a transfiguring key on images that become abstract, exactly as in the most noted artistic trends of the European twentieth century. Her works thus release an Central European area that makes them appealing to a cultured, sensitive audience knowledgeable of the modernist aims.
The marked predisposition for abstract and geometric forms undoubtedly derives from a stylizing taste, giving rise to Abstract Art and the great painting of Wassily Kandinsky, who evidently influences her. In Jana’s case it is also true that the material richness, produced by integrating painting with materials of various nature and provenance, and the fullness of color pastes, continually reinvented, betray a sure mastery of expressive means, capable of rendering plasticity and volumetry, prerogatives of our Classicism (it should not be ignored that the painter has lived for a long time near Michelangelesque marble quarries). And it is not to strain to force any rational interpretation. It is therefore evident that the themes are drawn from a continuous and uninterrupted source that flows with inexhaustible energy… Fantasy, here especially unleashed.
Driven by that ineffable mystery that is Creativity. It pours onto these canvases a wave of brilliant colors distributed apparently at random according to irregular, plant-like, spiraling, irregular lanes and wavy angles… a monstrous creature showing its teeth… but it is only a marble-like ball bearings!!! Bold painting passages and bold plastic scans, those of Jana, but always graduated from rich and bright tones to indicate a coral-like nature, an underwater background or a flowering grassy 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 fantastical universe of sea, sky and earth creatures. Triangles, Panels, Knots, Chess, Squares, Draperies, Seashells (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 of Spirit can illuminate.
Giulia Sillato

In 1963 I graduated from the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia, ex-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 City of Florence awarded me prizes and recognitions in a series of Art events and competitions. I also began teaching Art Disciplines at the State Middle Schools, after the change of ownership obtained in Ljubljana, and concurrently I pursued Ceramics with specialized courses.
During those years I created large ceramic decorative panels, works on commission 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 Palazzo del Comune - Council Chamber, Aulla (Massa Carrara)
1979 Arte Fiera, Carrara
1980 Tour of France with a stop in Paris
1996 Galleria Internazionale, Viareggio (Lucca)
1996 Palazzo del Comune (Massa Carrara) - Council Chamber, Aulla
1997 Palazzo del Comune - Council Chamber,
Pontremoli (Massa Carrara)
1997 Galleria Mercadante, Costa Smeralda (Sassari)
1997 Palazzo del Comune - Council Chamber, Sarzana (La Spezia)
1998 Galleria "Il Navicello": Torre del Lago Puccini
(Lucca)
1998 Galleria Internazionale, Viareggio (Lucca)
1998 Ippodromo, Montecatini Terme (Pistoia)
1998 Palazzo del Comune - Chiostro dei TAU,
Altopascio Lucca)
1999 Galleria Mercadante, Costa Smeralda (Sassari)
2000 Azienda di Promozione Turistica, Massa
2000 Hotel Principe, Venice
2000 Palazzo del Comune - Council Chamber,
Montecatini Terme (Pistoia)
2000 Galleria Internazionale, Viareggio (Lucca)
2001 Galleria del Torchio, Rome
2001 Studio d'Arte, Venice
2001 Studio d'Arte, Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza)

2001 Azienda di Promozione Turistica, Massa
2001 Piccola Galleria, Kranj (Slovenia)
2001 Palazzo del Comune - Chiostro dei TAU, Altopascio
(Lucca)
2001 Palazzo dei Capitani del Popolo,
Republic of San Marino
2001 Palazzo del Comune - Council Chamber, Marina di Massa
2002 Azienda di Promozione Turistica, Massa
2002 Palazzo del Comune - Council Chamber, Bolsena
( Viterbo)
2002 Galleria Mercadante, Levanto (La Spezia)
2003 Carnevale di Viareggio (Lucca)
2003 Palazzo del Comune - Council Chamber, Bolsena
( Viterbo)

Since 1999, rediscovered by professionals in the field, particularly Giulia Sillato, Art Historian of the Scuola Longhiana, I have practiced my exhibition activity among Italy’s most prestigious Historic Mansions and nationally renowned 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 of the Appartment 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 by the Sea, Rapallo (Genoa)
2001 The Four Famous “Castelli Romani”
in Contemporary: 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)