WE ANNOUNCE: new exhibitions in the month of November - JAKOB SAVINŠEK – 100 and MYSTERIOUS WAYS OF HELMETS

JAKOB SAVINŠEK – ONE HUNDRED YEARS

Miha Maleš Gallery, Wednesday, November 9, 2022, at 6 p.m

Few people know that the Slovenian sculptor Jakob Savinšek (1922-1961) was born in Kamnik. In 2022, we will celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Savinšek’s extensive legacy consists of drawings, statues, illustrations, scenographies and also poems, which most directly express his tragic sense of the world and his own destiny. Made with very different materials, the drawings include multi-meter cardboard for reliefs and miniature notes in notebooks and together with sketches and studies document Savinšek’s entire artistic creation from realized to unrealized works. Savinšek was above all a figurative artist, the author of many portraits, female nudes and other figurative motifs, in which he gradually abandoned genre elements. He started from studying nature, drew from the art nouveau and Slovenian expressionist traditions and searched for new forms.

Exhibition curator Saša Bučan.

THE MYSTERIOUS WAYS OF THE HELMETS

Museum – Zaprice Castle, Wednesday, November 16, 2022, at 6 p.m

In the joint project of the Intermunicipal Museum Kamnik, the National Museum of Slovenia and the Dolenjska Museum Novo mesto, we will show the 4th century BC., time so called of the Negoa horizon according to the chronology of the Hallstatt group in Dolenjska, which got its name from the helmets of the Negova type. All of the participants have a helmet in their collections, which has a special, unique story that we would like to reveal to the public. We will show the influence of the Dolenjska Hallstatt culture on the area of ​​Kamnik and Lukovica, as well as the broader cultural and historical framework of the last period of the Hallstatt culture in Slovenia.

Curator: Janja Železnikar

Participating colleagues: dr. Boštjan Laharnar, Matic Zupan (NMS), dr. Borut Križ and Petra Stipančić (Dolenjska Museum Novo mesto)