(Rakitna, 24.2.1942 -)
Janez Kovačič is a versatile Slovenian artist. He received his painting education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, where he graduated in 1968. After completing his studies, he went to Germany. For a short time, he worked as a graphic designer in Cologne and Munich, and then returned to Ljubljana.
In 1975, he successfully completed his postgraduate studies in the capital, at the Academy of Fine Arts. At that time, he began teaching graphic design and technology at the Secondary Media and Graphic Arts School in Ljubljana. He also painted several times. He mainly created in the technique of oil on canvas and watercolors. During his creative career, he produced several frescoes and prints. His stained glass windows have also reached beyond the territory of Slovenia. They appear in Italy, the USA and Canada and act as aesthetic furnishings for a wide variety of spaces. Several of his works of art are exhibited at the permanent exhibition of Slovenians in Toronto.
Janez Kovačič is a good portraitist and landscape painter. Occasionally, he depicts a still life or a veduta. The artist's interest is focused on the beauty of all the elements that he encounters in his depiction. He often paints the interior landscape, the Slovenian mountains, the Istrian land, the karst plateaus and the Prekmurje plain. With the help of clearly presented images, he creates a space in which viewers are supposed to notice the beauty of the depicted world. His compositions are carefully thought out, as he gradually builds them with the help of a colour scheme. These are often an important element through which the message is revealed. Most often, they feature cool green and blue colors, which the artist enriches with some contrasting red and yellow to achieve the fervor and liveliness of the images. The emphasized colour is harmoniously coordinated with the light.
In his images, the colors are graduated in such a way that they appear more fantasy-like and do not represent the real state of nature. Kovačič's works offer space for feeling the artist's deep love and his own relationship to nature. In his artistic language, he is a realist who manipulates color and light. His strokes are sometimes sharp, as if they had been previously drawn with a pencil, and sometimes they soften completely. Although he has often approached the impressionist technique in his strokes, his directly recognizable motifs have always remained clear and, with the help of colour and dramatic lighting, invite viewers to view the painting. In his free time, he likes to present himself to the public at group exhibitions, and he also works with restoration.
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Janez Kovačič je vsestranski slovenski umetnik. Slikarsko izobrazbo je prejel na Akademiji za likovno umetnost v Ljubljani, kjer je leta 1968 tudi diplomiral. Po koncu študija se je odpravil v Nemčijo. Kratek čas je služboval kot grafični oblikovalec v Kölnu in Münchnu, nato pa se je vrnil nazaj v Ljubljano.
Leta 1975 je v prestolnici, na likovni akademiji, uspešno zaključil postdiplomski študij. Tedaj se je lotil poučevanja grafičnega oblikovanja in tehnologije na Srednji medijski in grafični šoli v Ljubljani. Večkrat je tudi slikal. Ustvarjal je predvsem v tehniki olja na platno in z akvareli. V času svoje ustvarjalne kariere je izdelal nekaj fresk in grafik. Njegovi vitraži so segli tudi izven območja Slovenije. Pojavljajo se v Italiji, ZDA in Kanadi in delujejo kot estetska oprema najrazličnejših prostorov. Več njegovih umetnin je razstavljenih na stalni postavitvi Slovencev v Torontu.
Janez Kovačič je dober portretist in krajinar. Občasno upodobi kakšno tihožitje ali veduto. V ospredje umetnikovega zanimanja je postavljena lepota do vseh elementov, s katerimi se umetnik srečuje pri upodabljanju. Večkrat slika notranjsko pokrajino, slovenske gore, istrsko zemljo, kraške planote in prekmursko ravnico. S pomočjo jasno predstavljenih podob ustvari prostor, v katerem naj bi gledalci opazili lepoto prikazanega sveta. Njegove kompozicije so skrbno premišljene, saj jih postopoma gradi s pomočjo barvne sheme. Te so večkrat pomemben element preko katerega se razodene sporočilnost. Največkrat je v njih zastopan hladen zelen in moder kolorit, ki ga umetnik obogati z nekaj kontrastno rdeče in rumene, da z njima doseže gorečnost in živost podob. Poudarjen kolorit je harmonično usklajen s svetlobo.
V njegovih podobah so stopnjevane barve tako, da delujejo bolj fantazijsko in ne predstavljajo realnega stanja v naravi. Kovačičeva dela ponujajo prostor za občutenje umetnikove globoke ljubezni in lastnega odnosa do narave. V likovni govorici je realist, ki manipulira z barvo in svetlobo. Njegove poteze so kdaj ostre, kot da bi bile predhodno izrisane s svinčnikom, kdaj pa se popolnoma omehčajo. Čeprav se je v potezi večkrat približal tudi impresionistični tehniki, so njegovi neposredno spoznavni motivi vselej ostali jasni in s pomočjo barve in dramatične osvetlitve vabijo gledalce k ogledu slike. V prostem času se rad predstavi javnosti na skupinskih razstavah, ukvarja pa se tudi z restavriranjem.
The text was prepared for the Porta Alpina gallery by Pia Župevec, B.Sc. art history
Besedilo je za galerijo Porta Alpina pripravila Pia Župevec, dipl. um. zgod.
SOURCES/VIRI:
Nelida NEMEC, Okno umetnosti k sosedu-Janez Kovačič, Celovec 2015.
Tadeja PETROVČIČ JERINA, V Galeriji Družina odprli razstavo "Barve tišine Janeza Kovačiča", Družina, 14.11.2024, https://www.druzina.si/clanek/odprtje-razstave-barve-tisine-janeza-kovacica (21.1.2025).
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