Izlake–Zagorje Art Colony
Collection
The collection contains almost 1000 artworks and enables a unique insight into over 55 years of artistic endeavours since socialistic times. The highlights have been presented in the bilingual almanac published for the colony's 20th anniversary. Under the initiative of the Kranj-based Gallery of the Recipients of the Prešeren Award a travelling exhibition was prepared with the works by Zvest Apollonio, Avgust Černigoj, Herman Gvardjančič, Zdenko Huzjan, Stane Jarm, Zmago Jeraj, Metka Krašovec, Tomaž Kržišnik, Lojze Logar, Miha Maleš, Maksim Sedej, Jože Slak, Jože Tisnikar, Vinko Tušek, and others.
Exhibitions
The works from the collection have been shown in Zagorje near Sava, Trbovlje, Novo mesto, Beltinci, Ljubljana, Kranj. A special attention was dedicated to the 21 participants of the colony who were also the recipients of the Prešeren Award. In 2008 the exhibition of their works was prepared for the Prešeren Award Recipients Gallery (Galerija Prešernovih nagrajencev) in Kranj, the following year shown also in Zagorje near Sava and in 2010 in Kemnath (Germany) and in 2011 Bleiburg (Austria). The exhibitions travelled also to Italy, Hungary and Brussels, where they held an exhibition in the European Parliament in 2013.
Background
The colony was initiated by Tone Leskovšek, local painter and teacher and backed up by a group of artists (Ivo Seljak - Čopič, Ive Šubic, Zoran Didek) as well as the Ljubljana Fine Artists Society. From 1965 till 2005 Nande Razboršek presided over the colony's board, now succeeded by Eleonora Kramar and painter Nikolaj Beer as artistic director. The board's secretary is Bojan Čokl, also a painter.
See also
External links
- Izlake–Zagorje Art Colony website (in Slovenian)
- Bilingual catalogue of the Prešeren Award Recipients works from the Izlake–Zagorje Art Colony collection (link to pdf file below)