ŠTEFAN PLANINC’S FANTASTIC PRIMEVAL WORLDS
AND SLOVENIAN SURREALISM

 Štefan Planinc (1925–2017)
100th Anniversary

Štefan 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 Koroška in Slovenj Gradec. The ample body of works was selected and shaped into a donation by the artist’s wife, art historian Marija (Mica) Planinc and Milena Zlatar, director of the Slovenj Gradec museum at the time.

On the occasion of the artist’s centennial, we decided to present this generous gift in the context of surrealist art in Slovenia. The selection of Planinc’s 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.

Participating artists:
Štefan Planinc, Lojze Adamlje, Mire Cetin, Peter Černe, Boris Gaberščik, Slavko Kores, Stane Kregar, Avgust Lavrenčič, France Mihelič, Veno Pilon, Maksim Sedej Mlajši, Ive Šubic, Marko Šuštaršič.
V razstavo pospremijo fotografije Vida Brezočnika.

Vodstvo po razstavi s kustosom bo v sredo, 2. julija, ob 19.00.