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“The City Gallery Ljubljana hosts a retrospective exhibition of Sitar’s comic book Under the Red Star. Eight masterpieces of engaged comics put on view in as many rooms.”
“Feeding his reflections and interpretations on imagery, Iztok Sitar is one of the most important comic book authors in Slovenia. Through pictures, comics and precise composition, he communicates with his surroundings using a compelling artistic language, which also conveys his personal view of the world.”
“The City Gallery Ljubljana has organized a retrospective exhibition of engaged comics by Iztok Sitar, an illustrator, a caricaturist and comic book author, who published his first comics in the Orwellian 1984, as he likes to point out.”
City Art Gallery of Ljubljana
The City Gallery Ljubljana is one of the main cultural centres specialized in hosting contemporary art projects, with its operations actively contributing to the development and popularization of local and international art production. The basic guidelines of the gallery’s programme policy are aligned with some of the key segments from its rich exhibition history and substantive emphasis is established through profiled programme packages. Within the framework of these packages, the gallery exhibits solo and group shows from both Slovenian and international milieus. In over fifty years of uninterrupted operations, the City Gallery Ljubljana has hosted many world known names, such as Josef Albers, Jan Fabre, Omer Fast, Harun Farocki, Jannis Kounellis, Hans Arp, Victor Vasarely, Bill Woodrow, Joe Tilson, Eduardo Paolozzi, Dimitrije Bašičević-Mangelos, Bridget Riley, Ivan Kožarić, Rabih Mroué, Mladen Stilinović, Raša Todosojević, Bill Viola, Günther Uecker, Ulay, just to name a few.
Location
Mestni trg 5
1000 Ljubljana
Contact
T +386 1 24 11 770
E mestna.galerija@mgml.si
Information and reservations:
T 01 24 12 500
T 01 24 12 506
E prijava@mgml.si
Opening hours
Tuesday–Sunday: 11:00–19:00
Monday: Closed
1 January, 1 November, 25 December: Closed
24 and 31 December: 11:00–14:00
Tickets
Free entry.