In Cankarjev dom dr. Jure Mikuž prepared a study exhibition of the central comic master in Slovenia Tomaž Lavrič. The president of the Republic of Slovenia, Borut Pahor, distinguished Lavrič for his exceptional contribution to the Slovenian culture in the last few decades. The exhibition has been extended due to high public interest. In 2016 dr. Mikuž won Valvazor award for the exhibition, in 2017 Tomaž Lavrič won the highest national award, the Prešern fund award.
F.28 Organising an exhibition
COBISS.SI-ID: 281885440Museum of Modern Art or Museum of Contemporary Art as the central cultural organization for contemporary and modern art in Slovenia each decade presents a survey of the most relevant artists in Slovenia in the last 10 years. Dr. Polona Tratnik was also invited and presented her work in this context. Participation at this show presents an exceptional international achievement in this profession.
F.28 Organising an exhibition
COBISS.SI-ID: 21902600Dr. Tratnik discusses intertwinement and conditioning of reading images with prior knowledge or co-dependency of information and application of knowledge or subject into visual texts. Invited lecture at the conference organized by National Autonomous University of Mexico had incredible social reach since exceptional experts from the field participated at the conference, including Martin Jay and John Tagg; organizers selected 700 auditors as there were places in the hall, on the basis of their references, the conference was simultaneously transmitted for the other interested auditors.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 21715208Invited lecture at the international conference Classics and Class, Greek and Latin behind the Iron Curtain given at the opening of the exhibition, dedicated to the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Marij Pregelj, in the Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, 2013. Around 1950 both Slovenian and Yugoslav art was limited to rendering heroic figure, which glorified the military and labour victories. Following the example of Soviet socialist realism any advanced attempt of forming was undesirable. But Pregelj started to emphasize an individual who, despite being part of a collective, tries to exercise free will, showing his passion and virtue, and does not hide his fears and failures. He understood human destinies consciously and unconsciously expressed in the Greek epics need to be reinterpreted in philosophical and artistic language of the post-war time and then existentialist art. In this way he firmly introduced elements of modernism in his own creation and the Slovenian art in general. The lecture presents new comprehension of the painting opus in the creativity of Marij Pregelj in the context of European art.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 3221870International scientific symposium Russian emigration between two revolutions, held on 18th of March 2014, explored the life and work of Russian emigrants after the First World War - in the period from 1918 to 1941 - in Slovenia and in comparison to other European countries . Special attention was devoted to the causes for mass emigration from Russia and to the reception of Russian culture and civilization in different countries , especially in Slovenia.
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