Exhibition in Venice Marks Anniversary of Zoran Music's Death
The Slovenian gallery "A+A" in Italy's Venice will on Thursday open an exhibition of works by acclaimed painter Zoran Music (1909-2005), who died one year ago.
This will be the first time that his widow Ida Cadorin's private collection will go on display. Parisian art critic Jean Clair has chosen 50 oil paintings, gouaches and drawings which Music created in different periods.
The works chosen for the exhibition most often portray the human form, either in self-portraits, portraits of Music's wife Ida or both of them. All the works share a feeling of solitude and human fragility, the gallery said.
A work depicting the interior of a cathedral, which was created prior to the artist's painful concentration camp experience, will also be on display as well as tempera from 1948, which Music made in his studio in the palace of Venetian conservator Benedetto Marcello.
Zoran Music is known above all for his oil paintings, gouaches and pastel drawings. Rather than representation, he strove for a more sensitive evocation of people and the world. His work borders on the figurative and the imaginary.
In 1995 there was an exhibition dedicated to Music's body of work in the Paris Grand Palais. In 2004, an extensive exhibition in Italy's Gorizia displayed around 180 of his drawings, illustrations and watercolours.
The artist was born in the village of Bukovica near Gorizia and graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1934.
He used to spend his holidays in the Croatian coastal region Dalmatia, then moved to Spain following his graduation, but returned to Dalmatia after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. The Dalmatian landscape, together with childhood memories of the Slovenian region of Kras, were strong influences in his work.
Music returned to Gorizia after the Italian occupation in 1941. In 1944 he was sent to Dachau, but returned to Gorizia after the liberation and soon moved to Venice.
He had his first exhibition in Paris in 1952 after he received the "Premio Parigi" award. A contract with the Galerie de France meant he could stay there. He spent the rest of his life between Venice and Paris.
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