Jana Zanoskar (1963) - Covid

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

Critique & Exhibitions
CRITIC NOTE - BIOGRAPHY
Registered as Miriana Zanoskar, artist name 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."
Upon arriving in Italy I exhibited at Gallery 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 public interest.
For 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 venues but first and foremost 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 as well and throughout the year in his gallery.

THE SUBJECTS vary with the ideas of the moment; I have always been a surrealist, and naturally also an abstract painter with a few quirks or allusions to reality, as dreamlike references. 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 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 salvage materials to incorporate into the painting: old clocks, woods aged by time, glazed varnishes, ropes, nails and string.
(Sent to Mr. Cairo of Mondadori)

INFORMATION CARD
surname: Zanoskar -
name: Miriana - stage name Jana
Born on December 1, 1935 in Ljubljana, former Yugoslavia, now Slovenia.
Resident in Italy, in Celleno (Viterbo) at the retirement home Villa Acquaforte
www.janazanoskar.it
Email: jana.zanoskar@alice.it

Relationship with galleries in 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.
Continuous gallery exposure 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 inquisitive consciousness, expressed in entirely new expressive formulas. Thus she asserts the sense of form as pure vitality, bearing witness to the abstract sound of color, and the rhythm of the volumetries, 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, Lunigiana.
Magic painting, between abstraction and surrealism.
Klee treasured Jugendstil, the French Art Nouveau. And Zanoskar also senses the reflections of Floral and Liberty, but accords them to the spark of her imagination, to the sense of wonder that guides all her research in a kaleidoscope of floating forms and colors that change with the angles.
In the whirl of twentieth-century “isms,” in the panorama of Ligurian - Tuscan research painting, Jana Zanoskar’s activity manages to fascinate the viewer, not least for the restlessness never detached from a vital core of poetry.
It is recognizable, always distinguishable, precisely for this ability to evoke magical moods. Lives and works in Lunigiana.
R. Bertoli

The artist, of Slovenian origin, positions herself between Oriental Symbolism, inherently aniconic, and Western iconism, whose synthesis is fatal because it engraves, in a transfiguring key, images that become abstract, exactly as in the best-known trends of European Modern art. Her works thus release a Central European area that makes them appealing to a cultured, sensitive audience familiar with modernist concerns.
The marked predisposition for abstract and geometric forms undoubtedly derives from a stylized taste, giving life to Abstraction and to the great painting of Wassily Kandinsky, which 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 color pastes, continually reinvented, betray a sure mastery of expressive means, capable of rendering plasticity and volume, prerogatives of our Classicism (it should not be overlooked that the painter has lived for a long time near Michelangelesque marble regions). And one should not strain to force any rational reading. It is evident that the themes are drawn from a continuous and uninterrupted source that gushes forth with inexhaustible flow... Fantasia, here particularly unleashed.
Driven by that ineffable mystery that is Creativity. It pours over these canvases a wave of vivid colors that distribute seemingly at random according to geometric, deformed, all the more plant-like patterns... waves, spirals, irregular and wavy lanes, unsuspected angles... a monstrous creature shows its teeth... but it is only a marble shooting wheel!!! Painterly passages and bold plastic schemata, those of Jana, but always
graduated from full and brilliant tones to indicate a coral nature, an underwater floor or a lush, flowering meadow.
the title of each work, repetitive and insistently referencing the Kandinskyan "Untitled", makes clear reference to that, but what matters most is the courage to venture into this fantastic universe of creatures from the sea, sky and earth. Triangles, Panels, Knots, Chess, Squares, Draperies, Shells (or curls of capricious rocailles?) and all that can reasonably be inferred from the reading of these paintings now also sculptures introduce us to a Mystical Cosmogony, which only the Third Eye, that 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 Civic Gallery of Modern Art in Ljubljana, earning a permanent display 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 tenure obtained in Ljubljana, and in parallel I cultivated Ceramic Art with specialized courses.
During those years I created the large decorative ceramic panels, works on commission 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 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 Galleria "Il Navicello": Torre del Lago Puccini (Lucca)
1998 International Gallery, Viareggio (Lucca)
1998 Ippodromo, Montecatini Terme (Pistoia)
1998 Palazzo del Comune - Chiostro dei 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 - Chiostro dei TAU, Altopascio (Lucca)
Repubblica di 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 Carnevale di Viareggio (Lucca)
2003 Palazzo del Comune - Council Chamber, Bolsena (Viterbo)

From 1999, rediscovered by professionals in the field, especially Giulia Sillato, Art Historian of the Longhian School, I have carried on 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 of Guglielmo Gonzaga’s Apartment), 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 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 Quirinal (Rome)
2002 Crypt of Santa Croce Basilica (Florence)
2002 Casina Pompeiana at Riva di Chiaia (Naples)