黑料不打烊

艩tefan Planinc leapt, in his entire creative arch from the beginning of the 1960s until today, to the throne as the most consistent representative of fantastic surrealist painting in Slovenia. This visual storyteller, who never ran out of expressive breath, has created an almost unlimited visual opus of large-, medium- and small-size works, complemented by a huge corpus of drawings in various media. In 2005, a representative selection, comprising 133 paintings on canvas, 274 works on paper and 198 original book illustrations, totalling 605 works, was donated to the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koro拧ka in Slovenj Gradec. The ample body of works was selected and shaped into a donation by the artist鈥檚 wife, art historian Marija (Mica) Planinc and Milena Zlatar, director of the Slovenj Gradec museum at the time.

On the occasion of the artist鈥檚 centennial, we decided to present this generous gift in the context of surrealist art in Slovenia. The selection of Planinc鈥檚 works from all periods of his work, which reveals one of the most fascinating artistic adventures of figurative painting in modern Slovenian art, has been supplemented with works by twelve Slovenian painters, photographers and sculptors from the generation before World War II and the post-war generation, which focused its creative oeuvres mainly in the 1960s and 1970s.