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Janez Bernik

Slovenia, 9/6/1933 - 7/15/2016

BiographyA significant contemporary European artist, Janez Bernik creates paintings that employ both abstract and inorganic language in striking ways. At once formally innovative and emotionally expressive, Bernik's work has a somber, anarchic quality. Janez Bernik's work has been exhibited to wide acclaim from his native Yugoslavia to the Venice Biennale. He holds a chair at the Academy of Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Bernik's revolutionary painting at the beginning of the sixties departs from traditional, popular themes in Slovenia. This style of painting which does not depict an object, involves either the emancipation of color or the abstraction of motifs of landscape still retained at that time. Bernik's work, however, departs from this tradition. The essence of what is painted is in its concrete elements, constructed independently of the external world, in the creative action of the painter.

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