Jana Zanoskar (1963) - Covid

Anno 2010
Mixed technique: acrylic on canvas
Spedizione con telaio
Signed Jana Zanoskar

Critica & Exhibitions
CRITIC NOTE - BIOGRAPHY
In the civil registry 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."
With my arrival in Italy I exhibited at Galleria 14 in Florence, earning 2 gold medals. In the following years I participated in group shows in various places in Lunigiana; art in Tuscany at that time was lively and attracted 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 notable places but above all without a 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, varying 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 references. In recent years I returned to realism by 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 began with oil paintings, then continued with acrylic, incorporating discarded materials into the painting—old watches, weathered wood, glazed paints, cords, nails, and twine. (Sent to Mr. Cairo of Mondadori)

INFORMATION SHEET
surname: Zanoskar -
given name: Miriana - stage name Jana
Born December 1, 1935 in Ljubljana, former Yugoslavia, now Slovenia.
Resident in Italy, in Celleno (Viterbo) at the retirement 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 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 shows at the Centro Arte Moderna in Pisa. Continuous gallery display by Stefano Sichel and group exhibitions always with Stefano Sichel abroad.

"Jana Zanoskar, painter of mysterious on1nc1 moments, uses forms, signs and colors with sagacity to transfigure the real into a lyrically objective key. In her abstract research, the artist shows an inquisitive consciousness, expressed in entirely original 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 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. She lives and works in Podenzana, in Lunigiana.
Magic painting, between abstraction and surrealism.
Klee treasured Jugendstil, the French Art Nouveau. And Zanoskar senses the reflections of Floral and Liberty styles, but aligns them to the spark of her imagination, to the sense of the fantastic that guides all her research in a kaleidoscope of floating forms and colors changing with angles.
In the whirlwind of 20th-century “isms,” in the Ligurian-Tuscan painting landscape, Jana Zanoskar’s activity fascinates the viewer, not least for the restlessness never divorced from a vital core of poetry.
She is recognizable, always distinguishable, precisely for this capacity to evoke magical abstractions. She lives and works in Lunigiana.
R. Bertoli

The artist, of Slovenian origin, places herself between Oriental symbolism, inherently non-representational, and Western iconism, whose synthesis is fateful because it transfigures images into abstractions, exactly as in the best-known European 20th-century trends. Her works thus exude a Central European aura that makes them appealing to a cultured, sensitive audience familiar with modernist concerns.
The pronounced predisposition for abstract and geometric forms undoubtedly derives from a stylized taste, giving life to Abstraction and the great painting of Vasilij 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 origin, and the fullness of color pastes, continuously reinvented, betray a sure mastery of expressive means, suited to 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 marble). And one should not wrack one's brain trying to force any rationalist reading. It is evident that the themes are drawn from a continuous and uninterrupted source that flows with inexhaustible energy... Fantasy, here particularly unleashed.
Driven by that ineffable mystery that is Creativity, it pours over these canvases a flood of bright colors that spread apparently at random according to irregular geometric layouts, all with a phytomorphic character... swirls, spirals, irregular lanes and undulating, unexpected angles... a "monstrous" creature shows its teeth... but it is only a pinball machine!!! Bold painterly transitions and daring plastic scans, those of Jana, but always graduated from full and brilliant tones to indicate a coral-like nature, an underwater seabed or a lush flowering meadow.
The title of each work, repetitive and insistent on the concept of "unusual," makes explicit reference to Kandinsky’s "Untitled," but what matters most is the courage to venture into this fantastical universe of creatures of the sea, sky and earth. Triangles, Panels, Knots, Chess, Squares, Draperies, Shells (or curls of capricious rocailles?) and everything one can reasonably deduce from reading these paintings, now also sculpture, introduce us to a Mystic Cosmogony, which only the Third Eye of the Spirit can illuminate.
Giulia Sillato

In 1963 I graduated from the Academy of Ljubljana (Slovenia, ex Yugoslavia)
In 1965 I began exhibiting at the Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Ljubljana, earning a permanent exhibition at the City Museum.
In the 70s I moved to Italy where the Municipality of Florence granted me awards and recognitions in a series of art events and competitions. I also began teaching Artistic Disciplines in state middle schools, after the change of the titularity obtained in Ljubljana, and concurrently I pursued Ceramic Art with specialized courses.
During those years I produced 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 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 Town Hall (Massa Carrara) - Council Chamber, Aulla
1997 Town Hall - Council Chamber, Pontremoli (Massa Carrara)
1997 Mercadante Gallery, Costa Smeralda (Sassari)
1997 Town Hall - 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 Town Hall - Cloister TAU, Altopascio (Lucca)
1999 Mercadante Gallery, Costa Smeralda (Sassari)
2000 Tourist Promotion Company, Massa
2000 Hotel Principe, Venice
2000 Town Hall - 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 Tourist Promotion Company, Massa
2001 Small Gallery, Kranj (Slovenia)
2001 Town Hall - Cloister TAU, Altopascio (Lucca)
Republic of San Marino
2001 Town Hall - Council Chamber, Marina di Massa
2002 Tourist Promotion Company, Massa
2002 Town Hall - Council Chamber, Bolsena (Viterbo)
2002 Mercadante Gallery, Levanto (La Spezia)
2003 Carnevale di Viareggio (Lucca)
2003 Town Hall - Council Chamber, Bolsena (Viterbo)

Since 1999, rediscovered by professionals in the field, particularly Giulia Sillato, Art Historian of the Longhian School, I have pursued my exhibition activity among the most prestigious Historic Homes of Italy and nationally recognized 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 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 by the Sea, Rapallo (Genoa)
2001 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 at Riva di Chiaia (Naples)