Jana Zanoskar (1963) - Covid

In 2019
Mixed media: created on canvas.
Shipment with frame
Signed by Jana Zanoskar.

Critique & Show
Critical note - Biographical
In the registry, Miriana Zanoskar, also known as Jana Zanoskar. Graduated in 1963 from the Academy of Fine Arts.
Ljubljana with a duration of five years and the final thesis titled "Color in art, optics, chemistry, and physics."
With my arrival in Italy, I exhibited at Galleria 14 in Florence, receiving 2 gold medals. In the following years, I participated in group exhibitions in various locations in Lunigiana. Art in Tuscany during that period was lively and attracted public interest.
Many years I spent following Giulia Silato, exhibiting in historic buildings all over Italy. The exhibitions were well organized in historically significant and artistically notable locations, but above all, they were 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 have reached an artistic agreement, allowing for exhibitions abroad and throughout the year in his gallery.

Subjects vary with current ideas; I have always been surrealist, and naturally also an abstract artist with some touches of reality, like references.
In recent years, I have returned to realism by painting tattooed nudes, and with my large paintings, I approached the Earth's climatic situation, as in 'Il mondo perduto,' and the unknown world of our soul, as in the painting 'Le porte del tempo.'
The techniques I have used over the years are quite varied. I started with oil paintings, then continued with acrylic, incorporating recycled materials into the paintings—old watches, weathered wood, glazed paints, ropes, nails, and string.
Order to Mr. Cairo of Mondadori.


Information Sheet
Surname: Zanoskar
Name: Miriana - known as Jana
Born on December 1, 1935, in Ljubljana, in the 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 in the years 2018 and 2019.
Modern Art Center of Sbrana Massimiliano, Lungarno Mediceo, Pisa
Stefano Sichel Art Gallery, Castellarquato (PC)

Prices per painting
from 50 to 80 cm €4,000.00
120x100 cm 6,000.00 €
from 250x230 cm €25,000.00

In 2018 and 2019, I held two solo exhibitions at the Centro Arte Moderna in Pisa.
Continuous gallery exhibition by Stefano Sichel and collective exhibitions always with Stefano Sichel.
abroad

Jana Zanoskar, a painter of mysterious moments, skillfully uses shapes, signs, and colors to transfigure the real in a lyrically objective manner.
In his abstract researches, the artist shows an inquiring consciousness, expressed through entirely original expressive formulas. He affirms the sense of form as pure vitality, witnessing the abstract sound of color, and the rhythm of volumetries, weaving a loving dialogue with chromatic matter.
Paolo Levi

She was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, a city linked to the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, but has been transplanted to Italy for many years. She lives and works in Podenzana, in Lunigiana.
Magical painting, between abstraction and surrealism.
Klee made a treasure of Jugendstil, Art Nouveau.
And Zanoskar also feels the reflections of Floreale and Liberty, but aligns them with the spark of his imagination, with a sense of the fantastic that guides all his research in a kaleidoscope.
of floating shapes and colors that change depending on the viewing angles.
In the whirlwind of the 20th-century 'isms,' within the landscape of Ligurian-Tuscan research painting, Jana Zanoskar's activity manages to captivate the viewer, if only for its restless nature never separated from a vital core of poetry.
It is recognizable, always distinguishable, precisely because of this ability to evoke magic. He lives and works in Lunigiana.
R.Bertoli


The artist, of Slovenian origin, positions himself between Eastern symbolism, of an aniconic nature, and Western iconism, whose synthesis is inevitable because it leaves a transfigurative mark on the images, making them abstract—just like in the most well-known artistic trends of European Modernism. His works thus evoke a Central European atmosphere, making them appealing to an educated, sensitive audience familiar with 'modernist' ideas.
The heightened predisposition for abstract and geometric forms undoubtedly stems from stylized taste, giving rise to Abstract Art and the great painting of Vasilij Kandiskij, who clearly influences it. In Jana's case, it is also true that the material richness, produced by integrating painting with
Materials of various kinds and origins, and the fullness of chromatic pastes, continuously reinvented, reveal a confident mastery of expressive means, capable of rendering plasticity and volume—prerogatives of our Classicism (it should not be overlooked that the painter has long resided near Michelangelo's marbles). And there is no need to overthink trying to impose any rationalistic interpretation. It is indeed evident that the themes are drawn from a continuous and unbroken source that flows endlessly with inexhaustible energy... Fantasia, here particularly unleashed.
Driven by that ineffable mystery that is Creativity, it seems to pour onto these canvases a wave of bright colors that are distributed in seemingly random patterns according to unconventional geometric schemes! All of them with a phytomorphic character... swirls, spirals, irregular and wavy lanes, unsuspected angles... a 'monstrous' creature shows its teeth... but it's just a ball calculator! Bold painterly passages and daring plastic scans, those of Jana, but always.
Gradations of full and bright tones evoking a coral nature, an underwater seabed, or a lush, flowering meadow.
The title of each work, repetitive and insistent on the concept of 'unusual,' makes a clear reference to the Kandinsky-esque 'Untitled,' but what matters most is the courage to venture into this fantastic universe of creatures from the sea, sky, and earth. Triangles, Panes, Knots, Chessboards, Squares, Draperies, Shells (or perhaps frizzy curls of capricious rocailles?) and everything that can reasonably be inferred from reading 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, former Yugoslavia).
In 1965, I was beginning to exhibit at the Civic Gallery of Modern Art in Ljubljana, earning a meritorious permanent exhibition at the City Museum.
In the 1970s, I moved to Italy, where the Municipality of Florence awarded me prizes and recognitions at a series of art events and competitions. I also began teaching Artistic Disciplines at State Middle Schools after obtaining my qualification in Ljubljana, and simultaneously cultivated the art of ceramics through specialized courses.
They are from those years the large decorative ceramic panels, handcrafted on commission for the facades of numerous public and private buildings.

1975 Galleria 14, Florence
1975 Santa Maria della Quercia Church - Cloister
Aulla (Massa Carrara)
Palazzo del Comune - Council Chamber, Aulla (Massa Carrara)
1979 Arte Fiera, Carrara
1980 Tour de France with a stop in Paris
1996 Galleria Internazionale, Viareggio (Lucca)
1996 Palazzo del Comune (Massa Carrara) - Council Chamber, Aulla
1997 Palazzo del Comune - Council Hall,
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 Hall,
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 Piccola Galleria, Kranj (Slovenia)
2001 Palazzo del Comune - Chiostro dei TAU, Altopascio
(Lucca)
2001 Palazzo dei Capitani del Popolo
Republic of San Marino
2001 Palazzo del Comune - Council Hall, Marina di Massa
2002 Tourism Promotion Company, Massa
2002 Palazzo del Comune - Sala Consiliare, Bolsena
(Viterbo)
2002 Galleria Mercadante, Levanto (La Spezia)
2003 Viareggio Carnival (Lucca)
2003 Palazzo del Comune - Council Hall, Bolsena
(Viterbo)

Since 1999, rediscovered by industry professionals, particularly Giulia Sillato, an Art Historian from Scuola Longhiana, I have been carrying out my exhibition activities 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 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 Antico Castello sul Mare, Rapallo (Genoa)
Four famous 'Castelli Romani'
in Contemporanea
Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati (Rome)
Villa Tuscolana, Frascati (Rome)
Villa Falconieri, Frascati (Rome)
Antico Granaio Borghese, Artena (Rome)
2002 Palazzo Pallavicini Rospiglioso at the Quirinale
(Rome)
2002 Crypt of the Basilica of Santa Croce (Florence)
2002, Pompeian Little House in Riva di Chiaia, Naples