Milena Usenik: Two Way Junctions
Paintings 1970-2008
Curator: Sarival Sosič
Date: from 12.1.2009 to 1.2.2009
Opening view: Monday, January 12, 2009 at 7 p.m.
An overview exhibition organized in cooperation with Obalne galerije Piran.
Two Way Junctions
The City Art Museum at Mestni trg 5 will be opening an exhibition of an academic painter
Milena Usenik. The exhibition was prepared in collaboration with Obalne galerije Piran.
Academic painter Milena Usenik will show more than seventy works from her creative
career spanning over forty years. Color has always played a major role in her artistic
language, achieving extremely suggestive effect. Throughout her opus the color has
detached from realistic accuracy to the nature. The works created in the early seventies
20th century, successfully linked the external content of pop art with formal approaches
of op art. Through such approaches, Milena Usenik gradually came closer to abstract art.
A catalogue with reproductions of works and the accompanying texts Andrew Medved,
Mojce Grmek and Emerik Bernard accompanies the exhibition.
Milena Usenik was born in Veliki Vrh at Bloke in 1934. She studied painting at the
Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, where she graduated in 1965 with prof. Maksim
Sedej, and went on to complete a specialist study in painting with prof. Gabrijel Stupica.
She has presented herself with her works in numerous solo and group exhibitions at
home and abroad. As a freelance artist she lives and works in Logatec and Ljubljana.
