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Section 22, oil on linen (2004) by Peter Å trovs.
There are a few contemporary Slovenian painters whose work I enjoy. One of them is Viktor Šest, whose comic-melancholic paintings always tickle my cherries. Another is the morbid, crow-obsessed (and, unfortunately, recently deceased) Jože Tisnikar. A little while back, I stumbled onto Peter Štrovs and am happy to say I would unhesitatingly include him in my personal pantheon.
He has a number of great works online, including some figures in oil, a sheep on canvas series, a collection of tributes to the human body, painted windows, and big serious paintings. They’re worth inspecting. He’s clearly refining and expanding his style as time goes on, and I’m quite curious to see where it will take him.
Peter has also started blogging over at oslikarstvuinÅ¡eÄ?em ("aboutpaintingandthensome") but it’s in Slovene only. His homepage (official language: "Arafat English") is here.
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Weird pictures. But something on them makes me like them. Kinda like the stuff that Shag makes. ( www.shag.com )
Interesting stuff. I always liked the caricatures of family togetherness/craziness (’druzinski pandemonij’) one can see in the work of Jurij Kalan, who was born in Kranj in 1961 (and lives in LJ, I think). Kalan has had many exhibitions in Slovenia over the years. He was a pupil of Metka Krasovec, certainly one of the most important contemporary Slovene artists [and the wife of poet-of-the-world Tomaz Salamun, by the way], whose work is always challenging and invigorating. (Disclosure: I edited the English translation of an exhibition catalog for Ms. Krasovec back in 1999.)
Going back a little farther, have you checked out the exquisite meditations on decay and dead Kurents of France Mihelic? It doesn’t get much more Slovene than that…
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This last comment (or 2) are about as much off topic as it could get. And posting the same comment twice is…. Mike, could we call this “spam” ????
i like the sheep pictures as I like animals
in art. i also liked the guy who did the
illustrations for my english version of
the 10th Brother. I think hes dead
Wes, thanks for the comment. I was able to squeeze out a little bit of info about Jurij Kalan and France Mihelic from google, but will explore them in detail when I get the chance. (The Slovenian Wikipedia is, regrettably, still silent about both.) Meditations on death and decay, however, are almost always right up my alley.
nicjasno, we can definitely call it spam. And it’s ironic that a contest to honor blogs would resort to violating the golden rule of blogging: Don’t be a jerk and spam the comments section. (Nice to see you back, btw!)
All the artists you mention are pretty good, although I prefer a bit more happy-go-lucky stuff such as Alenka Kham Picman.
I vaguely remember some France Mihelic illustrations in a book of childrens’ fairy tales. I could be wrong, though. Gosh, talk about a combination - deat & decay and fairy tales.
Speaking of which, a lot of Slovenian art (including and not limited to poetry, prose and painting) makes you think like we live in the artic circle or at least on the shady side of the Alps, don’t you think? How the heck? I can’t fathom it, even though I was bornn and raised there.