Jana Zanoskar (1963) - Covid

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

Critique & Exhibitions
CRITIC NOTE - BIOGRAPHY
Registered as Miriana Zanoskar, artistically Jana Zanoskar. Graduated in 1963 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana with a five-year course and a 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 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 they seemed to have no future.
For the twenty-fifth jubilee I exhibited 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, like dreamlike allusions. In recent years I returned to realism, painting tattooed nudes, and with the large canvases I approached the climate situation on Earth, 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 the most varied. I began with oil paintings, then continued with acrylic, with found materials to incorporate into the painting—old clocks, wood aged by time, vitrified varnishes, ropes, nails and cord.
(Submitted to Mr. Cairo of Mondadori)

INFORMATION SHEET
surname: Zanoskar -
name: Miriana - artistically Jana
Born December 1, 1935 in Ljubljana, 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 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.
Continued gallery exposure with Stefano Sichel and exhibitions with Stefano Sichel abroad.

"Jana Zanoskar, a 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 inquisitive consciousness, expressed in entirely new expressive formulas. She asserts the sense of form as pure vitality, bearing witness to the abstract sound of color, and the rhythm of the volutes, intertwining 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. Lives and works in Podenzana, in 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, which guides all her research in a kaleidoscope of fluctuating shapes and colors that change with the angles.
In the whirlpool of twentieth-century “isms,” in the landscape of Ligurian-Tuscan painting research, Jana Zanoskar’s activity manages to fascinate the viewer, if not for the rest, at least for the restlessness never detached from a vital core of poetry.
She is recognizable, always distinguishable, precisely for this ability to evoke magical imagery. Lives and works in Lunigiana.
R. Bertoli

The artist, of Slovenian origin, places herself between Oriental Symbolism, of aniconic nature, and Western classicism, whose synthesis is fatal because it engraves in a transfigurative key on the images that become abstract, exactly as in the best-known artistic trends of the European twentieth century. Her works therefore release a Central European area that makes them appealing to a cultured, sensitive audience familiar with modernist ideas.
The pronounced predisposition for abstract and geometric forms undoubtedly derives from a stylized taste, giving rise to Abstraction and the great painting of Wassily 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 origins, and the fullness of chromatic pastes, continually reinvented, betray a assured mastery of expressive means, capable of rendering plasticity and volume, prerogatives of our Classicism (it should not be forgotten that the painter has lived for a long time near the land of Michelangelesque marbles). And one should not overthink trying to force any rational reading. It is evident that the themes are drawn from a continuous, uninterrupted source that flows with inexhaustible momentum… Fantasia, here especially unleashed.
Driven by that ineffable mystery that is Creativity. It spreads onto these canvases a flood of vivid colors distributed apparently at random according to geometric, irregular scripts, all with a plant-like character… swirls, whorls, irregular lanes and wavy lines, unsuspected angles… a monstrous creature bares its teeth… but it is only a ball-bearing!!! Paint passages and bold plastic scans, those of Jana, but always graduated from full, bright tones to indicate a coral-like nature, an underwater background or a grassy, flowering mantle.
The titles of each work, repetitive and insisting on the concept of "unusual", make clear reference to 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, Shells (or curls of capricious rocailles?) and everything that can reasonably be inferred from reading these paintings—now also sculpture—introduce us to a Misterious Cosmogony, which only the Third Eye of Spirit can illuminate.
Julia Sillato

In 1963 I graduated from the Academy 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 Municipality of Florence awarded me prizes and recognitions in a series of Art events and competitions. I also began teaching Artistic Disciplines at the Public Secondary Schools, after transferring the titularity obtained in Ljubljana, and concurrently I pursued Ceramics Art with specialized courses.
Among those years are the large decorative panels in ceramic, 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 - 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) - Council Hall, Aulla
1997 Palazzo del Comune - Council Hall, Pontremoli (Massa Carrara)
1997 Mercadante Gallery, Costa Smeralda (Sassari)
1997 Palazzo del Comune - Council Hall, Sarzana (La Spezia)
1998 Gallery "Il Navicello": Torre del Lago Puccini (Lucca)
1998 International Gallery, Viareggio (Lucca)
1998 Hippodrome, Montecatini Terme (Pistoia)
1998 Palazzo del Comune - Cloister of TAU, Altopascio (Lucca)
1999 Mercadante Gallery, Costa Smeralda (Sassari)
2000 Tourism Promotion Company, Massa
2000 Hotel Principe, Venice
2000 Palazzo del Comune - Council Hall, 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 Palazzo del Comune - Cloister of TAU, Altopascio (Lucca)
Republic of San Marino
2001 Palazzo del Comune - Council Hall, Marina di Massa
2002 Tourism Promotion Company, Massa
2002 Palazzo del Comune - Council Hall, Bolsena (Viterbo)
2002 Mercadante Gallery, Levanto (La Spezia)
2003 Carnevale di Viareggio (Lucca)
2003 Palazzo del Comune - Council Hall, Bolsena (Viterbo)

Since 1999, rediscovered by professionals in the field, especially Giulia Sillato, Art Historian of Scuola Longhiana, I have exercised my exhibition activity between Italy's most prestigious historic residences and nationally recognized Art Galleries that 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 Guglielmo Gonzaga Apartment), Mantua
1999 Fort Spagnola, 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 Abbazia di San Nilo, Grottaferrata (Rome)
2001 Antico Castello sul Mare, Rapallo (Genoa)
2001 Four famous "Castelli Romani" in Contemporary:
Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati (Rome)
Villa Tuscolana, Frascati (Rome)
Villa Falconieri, Frascati (Rome)
Antico Granaaio 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)