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Iztok Sitar
Iztok Sitar, Pogled

City Art Gallery Ljubljana

Mestni trg 5
1000 Ljubljana


General information:
T +386 1 24 11 785
E mestna.galerija@mgml.si

School programs:
T +386 1 24 12 506
E prijava@mgml.si

Public relations:
T +386 41 669 599
E mateja.dimnik@mgml.si


Tuesday–Sunday: 11:00–19:00
Monday: Closed
1 January, 1 November, 25 December: Closed
24 and 31 December: 11:00–14:00

Free entry.



City Art Gallery Ljubljana is a dog-friendly gallery.

retrospective exhibition

Iztok Sitar

Under the Red Star

30. 1. 2019–24. 3. 2019

Reality knows no tranquility. A work of art either moves toward presenting reality or away from it in order to forge its own parallel reality: like any visual work of art, the comic lies within these principles of presenting any reality.

In a comic, the picture becomes independent, jumping from one cartoon to the next; the word becomes independent, jumping from sentence to sentence, occasionally overflowing to overwhelm the visual aspect, while sometimes the visual aspect overwhelms the word. On the page of a comic strip, each frame builds life, creating a whole, and special comic life, from snippets or individual cartoons. The life of the comic artist featured in this exhibition and the monograph is full of recognizable images, dynamic graphic vibrations and critical reflection. Iztok Sitar (1962) aka Ninel (this is an anagram, which can be read backwards) is among the most significant comic book artists in Slovenia. His body of work is extensive, and most series or cycles have been published in books. He has also published in many national and foreign magazines and newspapers. 

The retrospective at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana (MGML), which presents his extensive body of comics, is the most thorough overview of his thirty-five year career and includes a selection of eight books that embody Sitar’s personal and visually and verbally expressive maturity, which he has worked for persistently, thoroughly and patiently since his artistic beginnings. The following comic books are exhibited: Sperm and Blood (1990), The Woman Who Makes Love to a Cat (1998), Black Men, White Bones (1999), 4000 (2001), The Story of God (2004), Heads (2006), The Diary of Anne Tank (2008) and Freaks Love Differently (2014). 

Sitar is not only known as a comic book artist, but also as an illustrator and cartoonist, and particularly as an insightful critic of the comic book art and scene in Slovenia. His original visual language is based on careful drawing and loose painterly strokes. Diverse layered colours create an expressive rhythm that is enhanced by stressed contours and colourful strips.

Iztok Sitar: Under the Red Star

Iztok Sitar aka Ninel (this is an anagram, which can be read backwards) is among the most significant comic book artists in Slovenia. His body of work is extensive, and ...

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Production: Museum and Galleries of LjubljanaExhibition curator: dr. Sarival SosičArtist: Iztok SitarText: dr. Sarival SosičDesignAjdin BašićPhotography: Andrej Peunik/MGMLExhibition installation: Technical services of MGMLThe exhibition was made possible by: City of Ljubljana, Department for Culture

City Art Gallery Ljubljana

Mestni trg 5
1000 Ljubljana


General information:
T +386 1 24 11 785
E mestna.galerija@mgml.si

School programs:
T +386 1 24 12 506
E prijava@mgml.si

Public relations:
T +386 41 669 599
E mateja.dimnik@mgml.si


Tuesday–Sunday: 11:00–19:00
Monday: Closed
1 January, 1 November, 25 December: Closed
24 and 31 December: 11:00–14:00

Free entry.



City Art Gallery Ljubljana is a dog-friendly gallery.

News

“Author who feeds his reflections and interpretation on imagery”

“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.”


1. February 2019
City Art Gallery Ljubljana
“Comics is an ideal medium  for expressing social critique”

“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.”

1. February 2019
City Art Gallery Ljubljana
Exhibition at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana will be the most comprehensive survey of Iztok Sitar’s comics production so far

Iztok Sitar is one of the leading and most prolific authors of engaged comics in Slovenia. In the thirty-five years of producing authorial comics, he has managed to afford this artistic endeavour an important place in Slovenian cultural milieu.

16. January 2019
City Art Gallery Ljubljana

Events

Open talk on engaged comic strip
Thu
14
Mar 2019
Lecture, Talk
5 p.m.
City Art Gallery Ljubljana
Open talk on engaged comic strip
You are cordially invited to join us for a roundtable discussion with Izar Lunaček, comic strip author and philosopher, Iztok Sitar, comic strip author and theorist, Damijan Stepančič, comic strip author and illustrator, Sarival Sosič, PhD, exhibition curator. The discussion will be lead by Pia Nikolič, comic strip researcher and critic.
Guided tour of the "Under the Red Star" exhibition
Thu
7
Mar 2019
Guided tour
5 p.m.
City Art Gallery Ljubljana
Guided tour of the "Under the Red Star" exhibition
Iztok Sitar is one of the leading and most prolific authors of engaged comics in Slovenia. In the thirty-five years of producing authorial comics, he has managed to afford this artistic endeavour an important place in Slovenian cultural milieu.
Guided tour of the "Under the Red Star" exhibition with Iztok Sitar
Thu
21
Feb 2019
Guided tour
5 p.m.
City Art Gallery Ljubljana
Guided tour of the "Under the Red Star" exhibition with Iztok Sitar
Iztok Sitar is one of the leading and most prolific authors of engaged comics in Slovenia. In the thirty-five years of producing authorial comics, he has managed to afford this artistic endeavour an important place in Slovenian cultural milieu.
Guided tour of the "Under the Red Star" exhibition
Fri
8
Feb 2019
Guided tour
5 p.m.
City Art Gallery Ljubljana
Guided tour of the "Under the Red Star" exhibition
Iztok Sitar is one of the leading and most prolific authors of engaged comics in Slovenia. In the thirty-five years of producing authorial comics, he has managed to afford this artistic endeavour an important place in Slovenian cultural milieu.

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