As part of Slovenia’s program as guests of honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the works of ten award-winning authors will be exhibited in an 80-square-meter exhibition space, complemented by works from a wider range.
The presentation is prepared by the Public Book Agency (JAK) of the Republic of Slovenia in cooperation with the Center for Illustration. They designed the exhibition Sara Badovinac and Sara Škarica (Sara & Sara), who received first prize for it at the festival Zagreb Design Week. With this, they were included in the wider selection of the world’s best interiors on the portal Dezeenannounced the Divja misel institute, which is the organizer and producer of the illustration exhibition in Frankfurt.
Award-winning ten illustrator namesAlong with the illustrations Zvonka Čoha, Maje Kastelic, Tomaž Lavrič, Polona Lovšin, Andrej Peklar, Lila Prap, Alenka Sottler, Damian Stepančič, Petar Škerl and Ana Zavadlav, the works of 32 authors from a wider range will also be on display. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog of 65 authors who “it testifies to the creative vitality and variety of creative styles of contemporary Slovenian illustration“. The author of the texts in the catalog is a visual artist, illustrator, performer and social critic Samira Kentric.
What is a Slovenian illustration supposed to be?“What is Slovenian illustration? Can illustration as a universal language be defined nationally? Is there anything specific enough to characterize something as broad as the field of illustration in the area, which today is inhabited by a predominantly Slovenian-speaking community and has around two million inhabitants? Can we limit stylistic influences, the fluidity of thoughts, emotions and experiences that do not recognize socially established boundaries? Can we determine what is supposed to be in the illustration of Slovenian?” are the questions with which your record with the title From Slovenian illustration to illustration Kentrić begins.
Whose works will still go to FrankfurtThe exhibition will also feature works by the following authors: Marta Bartolj, Marjanca Jemec Božič, Suzi Bricelj, Tina Dobrajc, Jure Engelsberger, Anka Kočevar, Tanja Komadina, Maša Kozjek, Ana Maraž, Eva Mlinar, Hana Stupica, Igor Šinkovec, Gorazd Vahen, Huiqin Wang, Silvan Omerzu, Jelka Godec Schmidt, Milan Eric, Jelka Reichman, Ančka Gošnik Godec, Marjan Manček, Matija Medved, Ciril Horjak, Luka Seme, Samira Kentrić, Maša P. Žmitek, Marija Nabernik, Trina Čuček Meršol, Aleš Sedmak, Zoran Smiljanić, Ivan Mitrevski, David Krančan and Miha Hančič.
“A small but highly concentrated bud of this miracle“The selection of authors and their creations, which will be presented at the 75th Frankfurt Book Fair, was made by the expert council of JAK. “The exhibition presents a small but highly concentrated bud of this wonder that we humans create, in the universal language of illustration,” wrote Samira Kentrić in the exhibition catalog.
Source: Rtvslo
