Exhibition Ties. The Zagreb academy of Fine Arts and Slovenian artists between the two World Wars presents artists who studied in Zagreb and their works until 2. world wars. It represents the influences, connections and collaborations between Slovenian and Croatian artists and raises some of the central artistic and social issues they were dealing with during this time – from national artistic expression to Engaged Art.
In the period between the two world wars, Zagreb was a bustling metropolis, a cultural and educational center with the only art academy in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, headed by Ivan Meshtrovi between 1923 and 1944/. Many artists from all over the Kingdom studied at this time, including almost a hundred Slovenian artists, for example: Zoran music, Gabrijel Stupica, Zoran Didek, France Mihelic, Miha males, France gorse, Nikolai Pirnat, Mari Pregelj, Maksim Sedej, Mira Pregelj, Francisek Smerdu, Boris and Zdenko Kalin, Bara Remec and many others who worked as painters, sculptors, set designers, art educators, cultural workers and theorists and also as the first professors of the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, founded in 1945. Lasting friendships were forged between the artists of the Zagreb academy, former professors and students became colleagues, former classmates colleagues, artists and artists exhibited together, worked in societies, sat on committees and co-designed art 20. century.
The exhibition presents more than one hundred and thirty works of painting and sculpture and Graphics by the most famous Slovenian artists, as well as a lot of archival material from the time of the Academy. Some of the works were already exhibited together in the time before the war, some will be on display in Slovenia for the first time. The artistic works of Slovenian authors are presented together with the works of their Croatian colleagues Antun Hotika, Oton Posruznik, Marijan Detoni, Fran Shimunovi 6, Slavko Kopac and professors Ljuba Babi 6, Vladimir Beci 6, Ivan Meshtrovi 6, krsta Hegedushi 6, Marina Tartaglia and others.
Curators: Dr. Asta bag, Dajana Vlaisavljevi/.
The exhibition was created in collaboration with three Slovenian and Croatian institutions: the Bozidar Jakac Gallery, Kostanjevica na Krki, the National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb and the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb.
Razstava Vezi. Zagrebška likovna akademija in slovenski umetniki med obema vojnama predstavlja umetnike, ki so študirali v Zagrebu, ter njihova dela do 2. svetovne vojne. Predstavlja vplive, povezave in sodelovanja med slovenskimi in hrvaškimi umetniki in umetnicami ter odpira nekatera osrednja umetnostna in družbena vprašanja, s katerimi so se ukvarjali v tem času – od nacionalnega likovnega izraza do angažirane umetnosti.
Zagreb je bil v obdobju med obema vojnama živahna metropola, kulturno in izobraževalno središče z edino likovno akademijo v Kraljevini Jugoslaviji, ki jo je med letoma 1923 in 1944 vodil Ivan Meštrović. Na njej so v tem času študirali številni umetniki iz celotne kraljevine, med njimi tudi skoraj sto slovenskih umetnic in umetnikov, na primer: Zoran Mušič, Gabrijel Stupica, Zoran Didek, France Mihelič, Miha Maleš, France Gorše, Nikolaj Pirnat, Marij Pregelj, Maksim Sedej, Mira Pregelj, Frančišek Smerdu, Boris in Zdenko Kalin, Bara Remec ter številni drugi, ki so delovali kot slikarji, kiparji, scenografi, likovni pedagogi, kulturni delavci in teoretiki ter tudi kot prvi profesorji Akademije likovnih umetnosti v Ljubljani, ustanovljene leta 1945. Med umetniki zagrebške akademije so se spletla trajna prijateljstva, nekdanji profesorji in študentje so postali kolegi, nekdanji sošolci sodelavci, umetniki in umetnice so skupaj razstavljali, delovali v društvih, zasedali v odborih in sooblikovali tako umetnost 20. stoletja.
Razstava predstavlja več kot sto trideset slikarskih in kiparskih del ter grafik najbolj znanih slovenskih umetnikov ter veliko arhivskega gradiva iz časa akademije. Nekatera dela so bila skupaj razstavljena že v času pred vojno, nekatera bodo v Sloveniji na ogled prvič. Umetniška dela slovenskih avtorjev in avtoric so predstavljena skupaj z deli njihovih hrvaških kolegov Antuna Motike, Otona Postružnika, Marijana Detonija, Frana Šimunovića, Slavka Kopača in profesorjev Ljube Babića, Vladimira Becića, Ivana Meštrovića, Krste Hegedušića, Marina Tartaglie in drugih.
Kustosinji: dr. Asta Vrečko, Dajana Vlaisavljević.
Razstava je nastala v sodelovanju treh slovenskih in hrvaških ustanov: Galerije Božidar Jakac, Kostanjevica na Krki, Nacionalnega muzeja moderne umetnosti, Zagreb in Akademije likovnih umetnosti v Zagrebu.
