Jana Zanoskar (1963) - Covid

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

Critique & Exhibitions
CRITIC’S NOTE - BIOGRAPHY
Listed as Miriana Zanoskar, artistically known as 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 two gold medals. In the following years I participated in group exhibitions in various locations 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 all over Italy. The exhibitions were well organized in historically important and artistically noteworthy places but first of 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 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 abstractionist with some eccentricities or references to reality, as dreamlike recalls. In recent years I returned to realism, painting tattooed nudes, and with the large canvases 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 have used over the years are the most varied. I started with oil paintings, then continued with acrylics, incorporating reclaimed materials into the painting—old clocks, woods aged by time, glazed varnishes, ropes, nails, and string.
(Submitted to Mr. Cairo of Mondadori)

INFORMATION SHEET
surname: Zanoskar -
given name: Miriana - known as Jana
Born December 1, 1935 in Ljubljana, former Yugoslavia, now Slovenia.
Resident in Italy, in Celleno (Viterbo) at the Villa Acquaforte nursing 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:
up to 50 to 80 cm 4,000.00 €
dimensions 120x100 cm 6,000.00 €
dimensions 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 presence with Stefano Sichel and group exhibitions always with Stefano Sichel abroad.

"Jana Zanoskar, painter of mysterious moments, uses forms, signs and colors with wisdom 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. Thus she asserts the sense of form as pure vitality, testifying 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. Lives and works in Podenzana, Lunigiana.
Magic painting, between abstraction and surrealism.
Klee treasured Jugendstil, 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 according to angles.
In the whirlwind of twentieth-century “isms,” in the panorama of Ligurian-Tuscan painting research, Jana Zanoskar’s activity manages to fascinate the viewer, not least for the unease never detached from a vital core of poetry.
She is recognizable, always distinguishable, precisely for this capacity for magical evocation. 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 fateful because it engraves a transfigurative key on the images that become abstract—exactly as in the best known trends of European twentieth-century art. Her works thus release a Central European milieu that makes them attractive to a cultured, sensitive audience who understand modernist ideals.
The pronounced predisposition for abstract and geometric forms undoubtedly derives from the 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 nature and origin, and the fullness of the chromatic pastes, continually reinvented, betray a sure mastery of expressive means, able to render plasticity and volume, prerogatives of our Classicism (not to ignore that the painter has lived for a long time near the land of Michelangelesque marbles). And one should not strain to force any rationalistic reading. It is 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 flood of bright colors that distribute seemingly at random according to geometrically irregular scripts, all with a phytomorphic character... spirals, swirls, irregular lanes and undulations, unsuspected angles... a “monstrous” creature bares its teeth... but it is only a marble shooter!!! Bold painting passages and daring plastic scans by Jana, but always graded from full and bright tones to indicate a coral nature, an underwater seabed or a lush grassy meadow.
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, Shells (or curls of capricious rocailles?) and all 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.
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 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 the change of the teaching title obtained in Ljubljana, and concurrently cultivated Ceramic Art with specialized courses.
During those years I produced large ceramic decorative panels, works 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 Palazzo Comunale - City Hall, Aulla (Massa Carrara)
1979 Arte Fiera, Carrara
1980 Tour of France with a stop in Paris
1996 International Gallery, Viareggio (Lucca)
1996 Palazzo Comunale (Massa Carrara) - City Hall, Aulla
1997 Palazzo Comunale - City Hall, Pontremoli (Massa Carrara)
1997 Mercadante Gallery, Costa Smeralda (Sassari)
1997 Palazzo Comunale - City Hall, Sarzana (La Spezia)
1998 Navicello Gallery: Torre del Lago Puccini (Lucca)
1998 International Gallery, Viareggio (Lucca)
1998 Hippodrome, Montecatini Terme (Pistoia)
1998 Palazzo Comunale - TAU Cloister, Altopascio (Lucca)
1999 Mercadante Gallery, Costa Smeralda (Sassari)
2000 Tourism Promotion Company, Massa
2000 Hotel Principe, Venice
2000 Palazzo Comunale - City Hall, Montecatini Terme (Pistoia)
2000 International Gallery, Viareggio (Lucca)
2001 Galleria del Torchio, Rome
2001 Art Studio, Venice
2001 Art Studio, Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza)
2001 Tourism Promotion Company, Massa
2001 Small Gallery, Kranj (Slovenia)
2001 Palazzo Comunale - Cloister TAU, Altopascio (Lucca)
2001 Palazzo dei Capitani del Popolo, Republic of San Marino
2001 Palazzo Comunale - City Hall, Marina di Massa
2002 Tourism Promotion Company, Massa
2002 Palazzo Comunale - City Hall, Bolsena (Viterbo)
2002 Mercadante Gallery, Levanto (La Spezia)
2003 Viareggio Carnival (Lucca)
2003 Palazzo Comunale - City Hall, Bolsena (Viterbo)

Since 1999, rediscovered by professionals in the field, particularly Giulia Sillato, Art Historian at Scuola Longhiana, I have exercised my exhibition activity among Italy’s most prestigious Historic Homes and nationally recognized 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 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 at Sea, Rapallo (Genoa)
2001 Four famous “Castelli Romani”
in Contemporary times:
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)