Calendar of events - January 2024

View Gallery, Glavni trg 2, Kamnik

Wednesday, January 24, 2024, at 6 p.m

Public guidance with the author after the exhibition

ADMIR GANIĆ: SCENOGRAPHY FOR SEVDAH AND OTHER STORIES

After the exhibition, the author of the exhibition, Admir Ganić, will be in charge.

Admir Ganić (1987, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, at the department of graphics, where he also completed postgraduate studies. So far, he has exhibited at eight solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions at home and around the world. He is the recipient of several awards and recognitions for graphics. He is a member of the Association of Slovenian Fine Artists (ZDSLU), the Association of Fine Artists of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ULUBIH) and the Association of Fine Artists Ljubljana (DLUL). From 2011 to 2015, he was employed as a drawing professor at the High School of Art in Sarajevo, and between 2018 and 2019 at the International Graphic Art Center in Ljubljana. He is currently employed at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana.

As a master of graphic design, Admir writes down memories with a simple composition and in clear language, which connect reality and dreams, and dispel doubts that through these images one can hear the characteristic music, melancholic sounds of the rooms of his childhood, and that in fact his lines they can weave into a network of fairy tales and melodies that everyone can dream up for themselves. Admir’s more recent graphics on vertical surfaces, full of almost untraceable stories that intertwine or even overlap, continue the artist’s artistic story and at the same time touch on the Far East, where years ago the artist got to know Chinese culture, especially its art. In the latter, he did not see an obstacle in communication, in understanding, because it seemed to him that calligraphy (or letter writing) spontaneously fits into his own artistic expression, which is transformed in his own artistic vision in new works.

Rudolf Maister’s birthplace, Šutna 23, Kamnik

Wednesday, January 31, 2024, at 6 p.m

Maister’s evening:

Ddr. Damir GLOBOČNIK

HINKO SMREKAR AND HIS COMIC ČRNOVOJNIK                                                     

Excellent connoisseurs of Smrekar’s works Žiga Valetič and Damir Globočnik published the book Hinko Smrekar: Črnovojnik in protocomics in Slovenia in 2021 at the Buča publishing house.

At the first Maister’s evening in 2024, ddr. Damir Globočnik will present us with a booklet, a comic, a proto-comic actually – Hinko Smrekar, Črnovojnik (Black Warrior), published in 1919 by the publishing house Umetniška propaganda. In it, after the end of the First World War, our great painter and illustrator lucidly depicted his fate and the stories of famous Slovenians, including his good friend Ivan Cankar.

The booklet consists of 24 pages, where the text is written by hand, and he enriched it with 50 self-deprecating pen drawings.

In Črnovojnik, Smrekar described his own internment during the First World War, namely at the beginning of 1915 he was conscripted into the army. An anonymous complaint described him as a Serbophile and a Russophile, he was arrested on August 4, 1915. He was first imprisoned in the prisons of the Ljubljana Police, and then in the Ljubljana Castle, from where he was sent to Wagna near Lipnica, from there to Enzersdorf in Lower Austria and finally to the Mittergrabern internment camp for political suspects. In September 1915, he had to go to the barracks in Judenburg in Upper Styria. He continued to evade the front, so he was sent from the hospital convalescence in Scheifling to the garrison hospital in Graz, where he was accused of simulating. He successfully pretended to be insane at the mental institution there, so that in the spring of 1916 he was removed from the military lists.

In cooperation with the Society General Maister Kamnik.

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