Telekom Slovenije Group Art Collection

Cankarjev dom in collaboration with the Telekom Slovenije Group

Exhibition curator: Aleksander Bassin, museum councillor
Exhibition layout: Dorian R. Spanzel, Studio 84
Production and framing of artworks: Studio & Galerija Černe

Compiled over a period of several decades, the Telekom Slovenije Art Collection today comprises more than a thousand works: graphic prints, paintings, sculptures, as well as some spatial installations and public sculptures by renowned Slovenian and international artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The exhibition, which will be on public view for the first time, features one hundred works selected by the exhibition's curator, museum councillor Aleksander Bassin.

The exhibition is arranged in four chapters – focusing on motifs or genres linking a group of graphic, pictorial and sculptural works: Landscape, Sculpture, Figuration and Abstraction. About half of the works on display are by renowned deceased, mostly Slovenian artists, while the other half are contemporary artists of the middle and older generations. The wide array of artistic expressions, genres, techniques and styles testifies to the sheer scope of this art collection, the social responsibility and the support Telekom Slovenije has offered several generations of artists. In this spirit, the exhibition partners, Cankarjev dom and the Telekom Slovenije Group, have decided to provide free admission to the exhibition.

The curator of the exhibition, Aleksander Bassin, points out in the exhibition catalogue that “The landscape genre first follows an impressionist vision, succeeded by a mystic interpretation of landscape, the wide colour spectrum of the Primorska region, the Rousseau-esque call to a romantic return to nature, the intensity of autumnal colouration, summery moods and a veiled, exotic sense of pure nature. Sculpture varies between indoor and outdoor plastic form in the light of abstraction and the transition into new figuration. Pictorial abstractionism is the dominant feature in the eternal struggle between objective – non-objective art, with the latter ranging from lyrical and geometric abstraction to new ornamentation.”

 

The following artists are included in the Telekom Slovenije Group Art Collection, which is presented in the exhibition catalogue:
Zvest Apollonio, Stojan Batič, Nikolaj Beer, France Berhtold, Janez Bernik, Viktor Bernik, Jiři Bezlaj, Janez Boljka, Bogdan Borčič, Gianni Borta, Lucijan Bratuš, Mirko Bratuša, Andrej Brumen Čop, Jože Ciuha, Dragica Cvek Jordan, Ksenija Čerče, Rajko Čuber, Riko Debenjak, Boge Dimovski, Miligoj Dominko, Milan Erič, Vida Fakin, Črtomir Frelih, Gustav Gnamuš, Klementina Golija, France Gruden, Marjan Gumilar, Tine Horvat, Dževad Hozo, Zdenko Huzjan, Irwin, Stane Jagodič, Svetlana Jakimovska Rodić, Matija Jama, Andrej Jemec, Gašper Jemec, Mladen Jernejec, Boris Jesih, Vasilije Josip Jordan, Žiga Kariž, Dušan Kirbiš, Fran Klemenčič, Janez Knez, Matjaž Kocbek, Leon Koporc, Jože Kotar, Bojan Kovačič, Metka Krašovec, Gorazd Krnc, Tomaž Kržišnik, Ivan Lacković Croata, Janez Lajovic, Tone Lapajne, Gani Llalloshi, Zvonimir Lončarić, Vladimir Makuc, Miha Maleš, Adriana Maraž, Cveto Maršič, France Mesarič, Kiar Meško, France Mihelič, Ivo Mršnik, Ismar Mujezinović, Roberto Nanut, Valentin Oman, Gary Paller, France Peršin, Janez Pirnat, Jona Gal Planinc, Boštjan Plesničar, Silvester Plotajs Sicoe, Matjaž Počivavšek, Arjan Pregl, Đuro Pulitika, Boštjan Putrh, Ivan Rabuzin, Vjenceslav Richter, France Rotar, Eta Sadar Breznik, Brane Sever, France Slana, Vida Slivniker Belantič, Lojze Spacal, Zora Stančič, Gabrijel Stupica, Branko Suhy, Andraž Šalamun, Rudi Španzel, Jože Šubic, Tugo Sušnik, Drago Tršar, Marijan Tršar, Klavdij Tutta, Vladimir Veličković, Jana Vizjak, Žarko Vrezec, Petar Waldegg, Huiqin Wang, Leon Zakrajšek, Boris Zaplatil, Safet Zec, Karel Zelenko, Tilen Žbona.