Jana Zanoskar (1963) - Covid

Anno 2010
Mixed media: acrylic on canvas
Stretched canvas
Signed Jana Zanoskar

Critique & Exhibitions
CRITIC’S NOTE - BIOGRAPHY
In the registry under 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."
Upon arriving in Italy I exhibited at Galleria 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.
For many years I traveled following Giulia Silato, exhibiting in historic palaces across Italy. The exhibitions were well organized in historically important and artistically notable places 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 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 an abstract artist with a few tricks or references to reality, like dream-like allusions. In recent years I returned to realism, painting tattooed nudes, and with the large canvases I approached the Earth’s climatic situation, such as "The Lost World," and the unknown world of our souls, 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, using salvaged materials to incorporate into the painting—old clocks, woods aged by time, vitrified varnishes, ropes, nails and twine.
(Sent to Mr. Cairo of Mondadori)

INFORMATION SHEET
surname: Zanoskar -
first name: Miriana - stage name Jana
Born December 1, 1935 in Ljubljana, former Yugoslavia, now Slovenia.
Resident in Italy, in Celleno (Viterbo) at the nursing home Villa Acquaforte
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 for paintings:
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.
Ongoing gallery exposure with Stefano Sichel and collective exhibitions always with Stefano Sichel
abroad.

"Jana Zanoskar, painter of mysterious moments, uses with wisdom shapes, signs and colors to transfigure the real in a lyrically objective key.
In her abstract explorations, the artist shows a probing 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 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 with the spark of her imagination, with the sense of the fantastic that guides all her research in a kaleidoscope of floating forms and colors that change with the angles.
In the swirl of twentieth-century ‘isms’, in the Ligurian-Tuscan painting panorama of research, Jana Zanoskar’s activity manages to fascinate the viewer, not least for the restlessness never divorced from a vital core of poetry.
It is recognizable, always distinguishable, precisely for this capacity 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 iconography, the synthesis of which is fateful because it carves transfiguring images into abstract ones, exactly as in the best-known trends of European modern art. Her works thus emanate a Central European area that makes them appealing to a cultured, sensitive audience acquainted with modernist tendencies.
The pronounced predisposition for abstract and geometric forms undoubtedly derives from a stylized taste, giving life to Abstraction and to Kandinsky’s great painting, which 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, continuously 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 lived for a long time near the lands of Michelangelesque marbles). And it is not to strain to force any rationalistic interpretation. It is evident that the themes are drawn from a continuous and uninterrupted source that flows with inexhaustible force… Fantasy, here particularly unleashed.
Driven by that ineffable mystery which is Creativity. It floods these canvases with a burst of vivid colors distributed apparently at random according to mathematically irregular schemes, all with a plant-like character… spirals, whorls, irregular lanes and wavy lines, unsuspected angles… a monstrous creature shows its teeth… but it is only a pinball machine!!! Bold painterly passages and daring plastic scans, those of Jana, but always graduated from rich, bright tones to indicate a coral nature, an underwater seabed or a flowering moss.
the title of each work, repetitive and insistent on the concept of "unusual", makes clear reference to Kandinsky’s "Untitled", but what matters most is the courage to venture into this fantastic universe of creatures of the sea, sky and earth. Triangles, Panels, Knots, Chess, Squares, Draperies, Shells (or curls of capricious rocailles?) and all that can be reasonably inferred from reading these “paintings” now also “sculpture” introduce us to a Mystical Cosmogony, which only the Third Eye—the Spirit—can illuminate.
Giulia Sillato

In 1963 I graduated from the Ljubljana Academy (Slovenia, former 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 recognitions in a series of art events and competitions. I also began teaching Artistic Disciplines at State Middle Schools (after converting the title obtained in Ljubljana), and simultaneously I pursued Ceramics with specialized courses.
Those years saw the creation of large decorative ceramic panels, commissioned works for 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 Chamber, 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 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 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 Galleria Mercadante, Costa Smeralda (Sassari)
2000 Tourism Promotion Company, Massa
2000 Hotel Principe, Venice
2000 Palazzo del Comune - Council Chamber, 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 Tourism Promotion Company, Massa
2001 Small Gallery, Kranj (Slovenia)
2001 Palazzo del Comune - Cloister of TAU, Altopascio (Lucca)
2001 Palazzo dei Capitani del Popolo, Republic of San Marino
2001 Palazzo del Comune - Council Chamber, Marina di Massa
2002 Tourism Promotion Company, Massa
2002 Palazzo del Comune - Council Chamber, Bolsena (Viterbo)
2002 Galleria Mercadante, Levanto (La Spezia)
2003 Viareggio Carnevale (Lucca)
2003 Palazzo del Comune - Council Chamber, Bolsena (Viterbo)

Since 1999, rediscovered by art professionals, in particular Giulia Sillato, an Art Historian of the Longhian School, I have exercised my exhibition activity among Italy’s most prestigious Historic Homes and nationally renowned 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 (Ground floor apartment 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 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)