Gabrijel Stupica
dal 3/7/2009 al 10/7/2009
Segnalato da
3/7/2009
Gabrijel Stupica
The Srebrenica Cultural Centre, Srebrenica
Resistance. The exhibition is part of the programme that commemorates 11 July 1995, on the 14th anniversary of the genocide against Bosniacs in the UN safe area of Srebrenica. The display focuses on a series of twelve previously unknown small-format gouaches made sometime around 1958. They were created as part of a proposal for decorating the halls of the People's Assembly of the People's Republic of Slovenia.
The International Centre of Graphic Arts from Ljubljana, the Organising
Committee for Commemorating 11 July 1995 on the 14th Anniversary of the
Genocide against Bosniacs in the "UN Safe Area" of Srebrenica and the
Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Bosnia and Hercegovina cordially
invite you to attend the opening of the exhibition Gabrijel Stupica:
Resistance, on Saturday, 4 July 2009, at 8 p.m., at the Srebrenica Cultural
Centre.
The exhibition will be opened by Mrs. Majda Širca, the Minister of Culture
of the Republic of Slovenia, Mr. Andrej Grasselli , the Ambassador of the
Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Bosnia and Hercegovina, and Mr. Osman
Suljić, the Chairman of the Organising Committee and the Mayor of the
Municipality of Srebrenica.
The exhibition is part of the programme that commemorates 11 July 1995, on
the 14th anniversary of the genocide against Bosniacs in the "UN safe area"
of Srebrenica, and the burial of the identified victims. The exhibition will
be on view through 11 July 2009.
Gabrijel Stupica (1913 - 1990) was one of the giants of twentieth-century
Slovene art. He helped to shape the country's artistic identity both as a
professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, where he taught several
generations of artists, and through his artwork, which in the 1950s and
1960s displayed the Western-oriented style of figural existential intimism.
The exhibition focuses on a series of twelve previously unknown small-format
gouaches made sometime around 1958. They were created as part of a proposal
for decorating the halls of the People's Assembly of the People's Republic
of Slovenia (today's Parliament). In 1957, Gabrijel Stupica was one of a
group of Slovenia's finest artists who were asked to adorn the interior of
the new building. He proposed a monumental triptych on the subject of
resistance and oppression, illustrated by a central image of protesters that
would be flanked by two pictures of market women. The committee rejected the
proposal on the grounds that it did not show the reality of the age and that
it was too modern.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue Gabrijel Stupica,The Resistance
in Slovene and English.
Opening july 4th, 2009
The Srebrenica Cultural Centre
Srebrenickog odreda bb, 75 430 - Srebrenica
Open from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.