Riko Art Collection
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History
The Škrabec family has been known for collecting art and other forms of cultural support already since the beginning of 20th century. The most important cultural pulse of Janez Škrabec was time being spent in Brežice, where his grandfather was living. "My grandfather was a doctor and passionate admirer of culture. He was a friend of the Slovene impressionists, had many books and in his villa he had plenty of styled furniture, too. All this influenced my sense for culture," said Janez Škrabec in an interview for the website of Novo mesto TV.
Strategy
The Riko Art Collection is to be understood as the culmination of Janez Škrabec's vision of supporting predominantly Slovene visual artists by buying their art works and thus building up a collection comprising now more then 300 art works – mostly paintings and sculptures from the beginning of the 20th century to today. The collection is not the fruit of a systematic strategy of collecting and a rigorous buying politic as for many well-known corporate art collections; the Riko Art Collection follows the very personal strategy of its proprietor with a huge amount of ease.
Collection and its Artists
Today, the Riko Art Collection pays special attention to the visual art production of the last three decades. Among others, the collection includes 35 paintings by Živko Marušič, a favourite contemporary painter of Janez Škrabec, as Polona Lovšin, art historian and curator of the Riko Art Collection, said for the interview for Slovenian newspaper Dobro jutro in 2008. Collection includes works by all of the most prominent Slovene artists of the 20th century, like Emerik Bernard, Sandi Červek, Gustav Gnamuš, Marijan Gumilar, Marko Jakše, Sergej Kapus, Ivo Prančič, Zdenka Žido. From the younger generation of Slovene sculptors, the collection possesses works of Uršula Berlot. Further sculptors: Stojan Batič, Mirsad Begić, Mirko Bratuša, Jakov Brdar, Lojze Dolinar, France Gorše, Stane Jarman, Boris Kalin, Tone Kralj, Matjaž Počivavšek, Karel Putriha, Lujo Vodopivec, Ivan Zajc, and Vasilija Žbone.
As a result, the collection displays the dynamism, diversity, and high-quality aesthetic expression of Slovene modern and contemporary visual arts. Of course, the collection is not complete; it is still growing from day to day.
Accessibility
The Riko Group gathered art works in their depositories in Hrovača, a small village south of Ribnica, where the Škrabec Homestead is located. Since 2004 some selected works have been shown on the traditional Riko Art Collection Exhibition in Mikl House Gallery in Ribnica – among others it this municipal institution also co-supported by the Riko Group. In spring 2009 some paintings of the abovementioned artists were exhibited in Piran City Gallery.
Programme Paris-Hrovača
Riko's programme Paris-Hrovača is from Riko Group purchased apartment with a studio in Paris, where artists – mostly graduates of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design – can live and create without paying the rent, donating the art works created there to the Riko Art Collection. Since 2009, visitors of this programme in Paris receive scholarships for living and working in the French capital as well.
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Together with Škrabec Homestead and Stanislav Škrabec’s Association, the Riko Art Collection is a distinguished part of the Riko Group's vivid and variegated cultural activities. +
Together with Škrabec Homestead and Stanislav Škrabec’s Association, the Riko Art Collection is a distinguished part of the Riko Group's vivid and variegated cultural activities. +
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