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Last chance!

Only this week you can see the Ivan Kos and his Masterpiece Girl with an Orange exhibition at UGM.
The exhibition space is open Tuesday to Sunday, between 10:00 and 18:00.

Girl With an Orange (1927) is a masterpiece of Ivan Kos and one of the most recognizable works from the collection of the Maribor Art Gallery. It is also the starting point for the exhibition, which presents the author primarily as a portrait painter. In the 1920s and 1930s, the author painted a series of portraits that, as the author's entire opus, range from coloristic approaches to academic practice, through sharp modelling of simplistic compositions of new reality to his own form of expressionist-imbued realism. In the late 1920s, when expressionism in Europe and here, became a more peaceful new reality, it was a time when his painting reached its peak. During this time, Ivan Kos painted some excellent portraits, characterized by compositional arrangement, emphasizing plasticity and a relatively modest colour palette, while showing a desire to delve deeper into the psyche of the painting model.

Ivan Kos (1895-1981) was one of the central painters in the 1920s and 1930s in Maribor. That time was a booming period and period of economic crisis at the time when the field of fine arts was finding its place in the city. As a young painter, he, along with others of his generation, ventured into the city's artistic work, bringing freshness to new artistic initiatives, and co-creating an exciting visual art scene. Also with the help of Ivan Kos, a new artistic community was born in Maribor, which wanted to keep up with the contemporary art streams of expressionism and new reality.

 

KINDLY INVITED!