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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Dear colleagues: Before it closes today, we should like to inform you of the current exhibition presented by the Queens College Art Center in the Rosenthal Library in collaboration with the Consulate General of Slovenia in New York. It presents the work of the Slovene painter and printmaker Lojze Logar and was guest curated by our ARLIS colleague from Slovenia, Marjana Lipoglavsek. Logar is considered one of Slovenia's leading graphic artists, having become prominent in his country in the tumultous 1960s. A member of the famous OHO group of painters, Logar had his distinctive outlook while being identified with the ironic accent of the American pop art scene. His enigmatic paintings, using lively intense color in a spontaneous way, are filled with vital energy, color and formal tensions. He was chosen to be one of the artists representing Slovenian graphic art in the 1997 book, The Graphic School of Ljubljana, as well as in the exhibition of the same title held in Slovenia. Logar has exhibited extensively in one-man and group shows, both in Europe and in the United States, including at the Museum of Modern Art in 1971. He has received numerous awards, most recently first prize in the Triennial of Graphic Art in Sofia, Bulgaria. This is his first solo exhibition in New York City. The exhibition was opened at Queens College on February 11 by His Excellency Dr. Dimitrij Rupel, Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia to Washington (one of the country's founders in 1991 and its first foreign minister, later mayor of Ljubljana) and by Mr. Tomaz Salamun, Consul in New York (and Slovenia's foremost poet). Also in attendance were the Consuls General in New York and Cleveland. The exhibition's curator is Dr. Marjana Lipoglavsek, Head Librarian of the Department of Art History at the University of Ljubljana for more than twenty years, scholar of Baroque art and author of publications on Baroque painting, art critic writing for newspapers, art journals, and Radio Slovenia, serving as advisor for museums and cultural heritage of Ljubljana. Marjana has been active in art and art librarianship in numerous ways, as editor for Allgemeine Kunstlerlexikon (Leipzig), speaker at CIDOC (Committee for Information and Documentation of ICOM) in Ljubljana in 1993 and in Washington in 1994, at CIHA congress in Amsterdam in 1996 (her paper is still o on the Internet). In 1993, Marjana was selected for the Getty Travel Award and participated in the ARLIS/NA conference in San Francisco. She joined ARLIS/NA and attended also the conference in Miami in 1996 where the idea of the present exhibition was born. Among her articles is one on Art Libraries in Slovenia, published in Art Libraries Journal 20/1, 1995. In Slovenia, she gave several papers to inform her library colleagues of ARLIS. Marjana has always cherished the idea of establishing an ARLIS in Slovenia. As she tells us, she was the first to have used the specific designation "art librarian" in that country. It has been a wonderful adventure for us -- Alexandra de Luise, Curator of the Queens College Art Center, and myself -- to organize this exhibition with an overseas ARLIS colleague, and we wanted to tell you about it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Suzanna Simor Flushing, NY 11367 Head Art Librarian 718 997-3771 Director, Queens College Art Center fax 718 997-3753 Queens College/CUNY [log in to unmask]