Izlake–Zagorje Art Colony

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Slikarska kolonija Izlake–Zagorje
Cesta 9. avgusta 1, SI-1410 Zagorje ob Savi
Phone386 (0) 3 566 4171, 386 (0) 41 489 305




The Izlake–Zagorje Art Colony has been established in 1964 and enjoys a cult status as the oldest and most hospitable painting colony in Slovenia. In the industrial environment of the former mining town the colony has been gathering local and international artist who can work there for ten days and then leave one work for the rich Izlake–Zagorje Art Colony art collection.

The collection contains over 800 artworks and enables a unique insight in almost 50 years of artistic endavours since socialistic times. The highlights have been presented in the bilingual almanach published for the colony's 20th anniversary. Under the initiative of the Kranj-based Gallery of the Recipients of the Prešeren Award a travelling exhibition with the works by Zvest Apollonio, Avgust Černigoj, Herman Gvardjančič, Zdenko Huzjan, Stane Jarm, Zmago Jeraj, Metka Krašovec, Tomaž Kržišnik, Lojze Logar, Miha Maleš, Maksim Sedej, Jože Slak, Jože Tisnikar, Vinko Tušek and others.

In the 2008 year of the intercultural dialogue the colony hosted more international participants coming from the newly acceded EU countries (e.g. Sean Kane from Slovakia, Masszi Ferenc from Hungary, Einar Vene from Estonia, Augustinas Žygimantas from Lithuania).


Background

The colony was initiated by Tone Leskovšek, local painter and teacher and backed up by a group of artists (Ivo Seljak - Čopič, Ive Šubic, Zoran Didek) as well as the Ljubljana Fine Artists Association. From 1965 till 2005 it was managed by Nande Razboršek, now succeeded by painter Nikolaj Beer as artistic director.

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