International Expert Jury
Riccardo Caldura (Italy), the director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice
Vadim Fiškin (Slovenia), artist
Jerica Ziherl (Croatia), an art historian, director and curator at the Lapidarium Museum in Novigrad
President of the jury: Riccardo Caldura
Secretary of the jury: dr. Majda Božeglav Japelj, curator of the Piran Coastal Galleries
At LVII. International Painting Ex-tempore 227 participants applied and 194 works of art were submitted. The jury selected 81 works of art for the exhibition, which is set up in the Piran City Gallery and in the Monfort Gallery in Portorož.
Awarded prizes
PRIZES FOR WORK ON PAPER
TA MAONA, Piran: ZVEZDANA MARGUŠ PROHASKA
TURISTIČNO ZDRUŽENJE PORTOROŽ: TIHANA KARLOVIČ
SPECIAL PRIZES
TRGOVINE ART LJUBLJANA IN ROYAL TALNES: MIRJANA MATIĆ
TRGOVINE ART LJUBLJANA IN FABRIANO: SERGEJ GLINKOV
PURCHASE PRIZES
ZASEBNI ZBIRATELJ: GREGOR PRATNEKER
MAJOR PURCHASE PRIZES
HOTEL MARKO PORTOROŽ: DUŠA JESIH
PODJETJE GASSPAR NALOŽBE PORTOROŽ: VASKO VIDMAR
JAVNO PODJETJE OKOLJE PIRAN PODELJUJE DVE NAGRADI: MATJAŽ BOROVNIČAR IN JOŽE KOTAR
ZASEBNA ZBIRATELJA MIRJAM JAHR IN RALF HEINEMANN: IVAN KONEC
STARA GOSTILNA PIRAN / VECCHIA OSTERIA PIRANO: NINA STOPAR
OBČINA PIRAN / COMUNE DI PIRANO: SLAVICA OPLANIĆ
HOTEL PRIZES
HOTELI BELVEDERE IZOLA: VALENTINO VIDOTTI
ART HOTEL TARTINI PIRAN: SUZANA MAROVT
EUROTASS HOTELI IN HOTEL PIRAN: TANJA HOČEVAR
SPECIAL PRIZE “TARTINI 330"
CAN PIRANO E COMINITÀ DEGLI ITALIANI GIUSEPPE TARTINI DI PIRANO: METKA PEPELNAK
Piran Coastal Galleries Awards
SPECIAL PRIZE CESARE DELL’ACQUA
The special prize Cesare Dell’Acqua, supported by the Municipality of Koper, was awarded to MLADEN STROPNIK (Slovenia) for the work titled White Cloud. The award in the form of a solo exhibition in the Coastal Galleries of Piran will be organized in the 2023 program year.
Explanation:
Precision and imprecision, centrality and decentralization, surface and volume. A work that stands before the viewer’s gaze as if it would be a spatial installation. Minimalist and conceptual, but not in the sense of quotation and remarks, Mladen Stropnik’s work is situated in the field of contemporary international experimentation which no longer distinguishes between genres and makes formal solutions interconnected with each other. The work highlights a very updated interpretation of the relationship between form and concept, between two and three dimensions. Precisely due to the versatility of the compositional aspects that the work reveals, even in its extreme reduction, the jury identified the artist as the most interesting to be given the opportunity to have a solo show in the exhibition program of the Piran coastal Galleries in 2023.
YOUNG AUTHOR PRIZE
The redemption prize for the best work by an author under the age of 35 is awarded by the Piran Coastal Galleries. The prize, which is in the form of a solo exhibition at the Herman Pečarič Gallery in Piran, was awarded to BLAŽKA KRIŽAN (Slovenia) for the painting titled Currents.
Explanation:
A visual experimentation attentive to the perceptual dimension and the dynamism of the image. The work reveals an attention to the optical and Gestalt research that characterized a period of particular relevance for the modernist art of the Balkan countries, in south-eastern Europe. The work oscillates between the dimension of art and design, considering what the surface can generate in terms of fluidity thanks to the monochromatic effects of the chosen material.
GRAND PRIX
Grand Prix, the highest redemption prize, is also awarded by the Piran Coastal Galleries. Grand Prix of the LVII. International Painting Ex-tempore was awarded to MATIC MOŠKON (Slovenia) for the painting titled Only a Spectator. Alienation of The Individual From the Surroundings.
Explanation:
The author, although very young, reveals a quality of psychological introspection that attracts our attention. As proposed in the title Only a Spectator. Alienation of The Individual From the Surroundings the work reflects on the function of the gaze and on the act of observing. The painting shows a remarkable harmony in the few neutral colors and recalls an atmosphere, vaguely retro, even its formal composition. The last is very marked, with a deliberate focus on the human face. The author Matic Moškon is obviously a promise of painting, a discipline that also for the new generations – as we noticed during the selection phases of Ex tempore 2022 – represents an ideal medium to question representation as the central theme of contemporary vision.
CHILDREN’S PRIZE
(aged up to 15 years)
The prize in the form of painting material is awarded to the youngest awardees by the Piran Coastal Galleries.
MILA BEGOVIĆ: Octoplastic
For more info, please vist www.obalne-galerije.si.
LINK:
https://www.primorske.si/kultura/grand-prix-57-slikarskega-ex-tempora-v-piranu-mati
Grand Prix: Matic Moškon
Children’s Prize: Blažka Križan
Cesare dell’Acqua Prize: Mladen Stropnik
Exhibited artworks: Piran City Gallery
BARBARA CETINA
BLAŽKA KRIŽAN
BOJANA SENEKOVIČ-Š.
CVETO VIDOVIČ
DAJANA ČOK
DARIJA GRŽINIČ
DRAGO ŠUMNIK-LUKA
DUŠA JESIH
FILIP BOLE
GORANKA SUPIN
IVAN JANI KONEC
JANKO KASTELIC
JOŽE KOTAR
KAROL KUHAR
KATJA BEDNARIK SUDEC
KLAVDIJA JERŠINOVEC
MARTA FREI
MATIC MOŠKON
MATJAŽ BOROVNIČAR
METKA PEPELNAK
MILOŠ DEKIĆ
MLADEN STROPNIK
NEVIJA CVITKO
NINA STOPAR
RENATA PENTEK ŠIMOKOVIĆ
SAŠA GAJŠEK
SILVANA KONJEVODA
SLAVICA OPLANIĆ
SUZANA MAROVT
ŠPELA KOBAL
TAJA REGENT VERAS
TANJA HOČEVAR
TIHANA KARLOVIĆ
VALENTINO VIDOTTI
VASKO VIDMAR
ZVJEZDANA MARGUŠ PROHASKA
Exhibited artworks: Monfort Gallery
ALEN ŠIMOKOVIĆ
ANA ZAVOLOVŠEK
ANNA BERG – ŠKVOR,
BARBARA DEMŠAR
BARBARA HOFMAN
BARBARA KASTELEC
DARIJA STIPANIĆ,
DARINKA LAPAJNE
DENIS FAGANEL LUKAČIĆ
ELSA DELISE
EMILIJA PODJAVORŠEK
ENEJ CJUHA GIULIATTI
ESTER DIKLIĆ
GAJA PRINČIČ
GALA CJUHA GIULIATTI
GREGOR PRATNEKER
HANNES LENGAUER
IRENA MAJCEN
IVANA MARADIN
IZTOK BOBIĆ,
JASENKA KORLEVIĆ
JULIE REDIVO,
LARA MODRIN
LIVIO ZOPPOLATO,
MAJA IVEZIĆ
MARJETA MEDVED
MARKO LENART
MATEVŽ ŠKUFCA
MAXIME NOELLE TENZER
MIHAIL HODIN
Mila BegoviĆ
MILENA KAFOL,
MILENA ROŠTOHAR
MINEJA CAH ŠVARC
MIRA RESNIK
MIRJANA MATIĆ,
MOJCA ŠON,
NATAŠA BEZIĆ,
NEVENKA FLAJS
NEŽA ŠTURM
NIKA ČERNIGOJ
PAOLA BONIFACIO
PAVLA MILOŠIČ
PETRA DERGANC
ROMAN VERAS
SERGEJ GLINKOV
SIMON KASTELIC
SIMON VOVK
STANE PETROVIČ – ČONČ
STAŠA FAVAI
STOJAN ŠPEGEL
ŠTEFAN BREZOVNIK
TANJA ŠPENKO
TARAS GRABOVAC,
TEJA MUNIH
ZORA ZAVRŠNIK ČRNOLOGAR
ZORKA SVATINA – CIMAN
ŽIVA BASTJANČIČ
