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From 13 December 2007 until 2 February 2008 |
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IDEOLOGY OF NATION IN THE GRAPHIC DESIGN OF PERSONAL DOCUMENTS: SLOVENIA AND SOME EUROPEAN STATES
The exhibition will present an overview of the visualisations of the Slovenian national identity through the graphic design of money and personal documents. Counterpoint will be the samples from other EU countries. Slovenia‛s joining the euro area has completed the Slovenian national project. Thus, Slovenia has also contributed its own coins, which are an achievement of the Slovenian graphic design, to the treasury of euro. The same is also true of the Slovenian personal documents. The mutual connection is the national iconography, which is artistically designed and unites territorial historical and linguistic components. Through this prism, European Union does not seem as a melting pot merging the cultures of its various nations, but it is more like a mosaic showing the individual characteristics. The development of graphic design in Slovenia places us perfectly into this mosaic, and testifies about us far beyond Slovenia‛s borders.
Authors: Veselin Mišković (NUK), Miljenko Licul
Venue: NUK Exhibition Room |
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ADOPT A BOOK
Adopt a Book is an initiative to raise funds to conserve and restore the written treasures of the Slovenian cultural heritage, which are a significant component of the nation‛s identity. During the period 2006 – 2007, the donors‛ gifts helped NUK to treat and save eight outstanding documents. The adopted books and the donors, who ensured the restoration, conservation and preservation, will be presented in the exhibition. At the opening ceremony, the donors will be awarded the honorary titles.
Author: Borut Osojnik (NUK)
Venue: NUK Exhibition Room |
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19 February – 12 March 2008 |
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» LIFE IS NOT A HOLIDAY, IT IS A WORKING DAY«
Pavel Šivic (2 February 1908 – 31 May 1995)
On the 100th anniversary of his birth
The exhibition will celebrate an extraordinary and multifaceted character in the light of a pianist, composer and teacher. The Music Department holds a comprehensive legacy which reflects the personality, work and creativity of Pavel Šivic. The anniversary is an opportunity to display the invaluable manuscript material and documentation which is preserved separately and not easily accessible to all users.
Author: Simona Moličnik, MA (NUK)
Venue: NUK Exhibition Room
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MANDALA
A modern man is in a search of a path of inner balance, harmony of life and subtle essences of inner worlds. The mandala can help you on this path of personal revelation, and by finding the harmony between the outer and inner worlds. Through the combination of geometrical forms, colours and symbols they connect you to the world and lead you back to yourself.
The essence of mandala is a circle which inherently conveys the principles of wholeness, completion and unity of the beginning and end at the same time. The origin of mandala is the centre which is actually the primary source of unconditional love. Different signs, symbols, shapes and patterns are radiating out from the centre and they supplement each other in colourful combinations. Mildness, grace, love and peace flow out of the centre. It originates in the past and through the present it extends towards the future. Thus, love has always flown out from the centre since the very beginning of our existence, however, we do not hear, see or feel this inner sound due to today‛s haste and superabundance of insignificant events and information.
This will be the eighth exhibition of mandala at NUK.
Authors: Gabrijela Železnik, Vanda Omejc
Venue: NUK Exhibition Room |
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THE GROWING BOOK
The Growing Book – a reminder of the Slovenehood – the evidence of the Slovenian development: the exhibition will highlight 50 books, 30 wall panels and 10 free-standing boards.
Author: Dr Mihael Glavan (NUK)
Venue: NUK Exhibition Room and the Main Entrance Hall
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TRUBAR‛S AND UNGNAD‛S GIFT TO EUROPE
The Slovenian, Croatian and other Protestant works published by the Ungnad -Trubar Bible Institute in Urach will be on display in Slovenia for the first time.
In1564, after the cessation of the operation of the famous south Slavic Protestant Bible Institute in the German town Urach, its leader, the Baron Hans III Ungnad von Sonnegg (the professional leader of the Institute was Primož Trubar) donated the Institute‛s valuable book production to the predecessor of the present University Library in Basel. The books are especially beautifully bound because they were produced as gift copies. They are all invaluable and of great importance for the cultural history of the Reformation in south Europe, and some are extremely rare or even unique. The exhibition will mark the international celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Primož Trubar and it will be an important cultural event during Slovenia‛s EU presidency. It is also an acknowledgement of good cultural and bilateral relations between the Republic of Slovenia and the Republic of Switzerland.
Author: Dr Mihael Glavan (NUK)
Venue: NUK Exhibition Room |
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REFUGEE PERIOD AND PEOPLE
The exhibition will mark the 60th anniversary of the Slovenian exodus, when about 6000 post-war refugees had to leave their homeland and go on a long trip over the ocean – to unknown countries and people - and labelled »DP« (Displaced Person). The greatest mass immigration took place in 1948.
The exhibition will show the refugees‛ »everyday life« in camps: from school operation, cultural events and sport activities to refugee publications – very interesting because of their variety and informational value. We also aim to display some personal items from that period: photographs and different products the refugees made or used at the time.
Author: Dr Rozina Švent (NUK)
Venue: NUK Exhibition Room |
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MIŠKO KRANJEC –
ON THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH
The National and University Library will prepare an exhibition on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Miško Kranjec, the storyteller from Prekmurje. He created one of the most comprehensive oeuvres in Slovenia. During his life, he published more than 50 books, mainly novels, short stories, tales and essay writings. Even though his literary views (often mixed with the current political issues) became out-of-date after 1945, and later they were also in conflict with modernism, Kranjec is still considered to be one of the founders of Social Realism and one of its most prominent Slovenian representatives.
A selection from his extensive life-work and literary legacy held by the Manuscript Department will be on display.
Author: Marijan Rupert, MA (NUK)
Venue: NUK Exhibition Room |
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29 September – 30 October 2008 |
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"GIFTS" - ON THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF TONE PAVČKE
The birthplace of Tone Pavček is Sveti Jurij in Dolenjska – "the place of my home, the home in the middle of our village, the village in the middle of the world. And everything, always and again and once more in the middle of the heart."1 The poet of intimacy and reflection, vital captivity and cheerfulness – he has always emerged from suffering and abysses into the light, into the poem.
Tone Pavček is a lawyer by occupation, however, he worked as a journalist and editor at the national public broadcasting organization Radio-Television Slovenia, as a director of the Youth Theatre, and as the Editor-in-Chief at the publishing house Cankarjeva založba. Culture has been his bread, but also his wine: "without searching for the beautiful, which culture is in its broadest sense, there cannot be any beauty in us. And of course, neither between us."2
Pavček has also enchanted young readers with his playfulness. He marked the Slovene essay writing with his insightful reflections on joy and grief. And finally, there is his extensive translation work. He has received numerous awards for his creative work.
The exhibition will present the great poet‛s life-work: poetry books, essays, youth literature and translations.
/1,2 Čas duše, čas telesa. Ljubljana: Mihelač, 1994/
Author: Tatjana Kovač (NUK)
Venue: NUK Exhibition Room |
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LOJZE KOVAČIČ –
ON THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH
In the view of the literary theory, Lojze Kovačič is considered the greatest prose writer of the second half of the 20th century. On the 80th anniversary of his birth, a symposium on his work will take place, his collected works are planned to start and some books will be published. The exhibition will relate to all these events.
Author: Dr Mihael Glavan (NUK)
Venue: NUK Exhibition Room |
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3 December 2008 – 6 January 2009 |
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CARVED FREISING MANUSCRIPTS
A Slavist, ethnologist and a researcher Matjaž Brojan is »by his hands a carver, and a journalist by his profession in the documentary feuilleton editorial office of Radio Slovenia« as Franc Milošič wrote in 2004. In ten years, he has created a unique copy of the Freising Manuscripts – a wooden facsimile of all 22 pages of two forms of general confession and a sermon on sin and repentance (all together 29 wooden boards). He and his son Matic have first projected the paper facsimile of the manuscripts on the paper, and with a filigree precision they copied the letters of the Carolingian minuscule script. Then, Brojan had to edge them with sharp and tiny carving tools and tediously cut out the surface of lime planks in almost four-time size of the original. He coloured his carving masterpiece with a mixture of red soil from the Primorska region and soil from his home town (Znojile). Four years after the exhibition of the original at the National and University Library, the carved Freising Manuscripts by Matjaž Brojan will be first on display at NUK in the Year of Trubar 2008.
Author: Matjaž Brojan
Venue: NUK Exhibition Room |
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