Jakob Savinšek, Female figure/Rhythm II, 1953

Jakob Savinšek, Female figure/Rhythm II, 1953, bronze, sign. d. sp. SAVIN 1/1

We present a new donated work by author Jakob Savinšek. It is a donation from Darja Marinček Prosenc, whose mother, a well-known theater and film actress, Ivanka Mežan, was also a friend of our well-known actress Mila Kačič, who was the muse and eternally devoted love of Jakob Savinšek. Before her death, Mila Kačič left Ivanka Mežan those personal items related to the sculptor Savinšek. Now the small sculpture is part of the collection of Jakob Savinšek, which is kept by the Miha Maleš Gallery in Kamnik.

The donated work was not presented at the retrospective exhibition in the Modern gallery in Ljubljana in 1994, but based on related ideas, it can be placed in the time after 1950, more precisely in 1953, when Savinšek began to move from a realistic to a modern phase in his sculpture. Jakob Savinšek designed the design of many figures in drawings, where we can follow his many ideas and concepts, some of which were not realized. His basis has always been the human figure, in which, as he himself said, all forms merge. That is why he studied problems of balance, convex and concave forms, planes and curves, proportions, movement. He found the transition from a frontal standing posture to a moving position in the darkness of the dancers, where he presented the faces schematically and, like the bearer of individual sculptures, highlighted the movement.

The donated work is thus closest to the work Rhythm I from 1953. In the catalog of the Modern gallery from 1994, there is a record of another statue called Rhythm  II, which was created in the same year, but the location of the statue was not known. Now this “lost piece” of the sculptor’s story is on display in the Miha Maleš gallery in Kamnik.