8 March – 3 April, 2016
Epeka Gallery, Maribor

This year’s 8th of March will be a special one at the Prostor EPEKA Gallery, as the aim of this provocative exhibition is to bring the woman as a character to the forefront.

In Yugoslavia, the artist Marijan Amalietti, sexually liberated, was one of the first cartoonists to depict her in comics, as you will see in the exhibition.

Location:
EPEKA Gallery Space
Koroška cesta 8, Maribor

At 7 p.m.
Opening of the Marijan Amalietti exhibition

The author’s life and work will be presented by his son Peter Amalietti and Aleksander Buh

The exhibition is organised in collaboration with the Strip Art Institute, Strip.art.nico Buch and Peter Amalietti.

The exhibition is only open to people of legal age!

Marijan Amalietti was born on 19 July 1923 in Ormož into a family of Furlan origin. He started high school in Maribor, but graduated in Jagodina, where he and his family were deported during the Second World War. After graduation he joined the partisans and took part in the Battle of Neretva as a mulovod. After the war, he returned to Slovenia and studied at the Technical Faculty in Ljubljana, where he graduated in architecture in 1954 and then taught architectural drawing and the basics of design and composition from 1957. As an architect, he is best known for the interior redesign of the Union Hotel and the design of its extension. His extensive life’s work, apart from architecture, also includes painting, illustration, caricature and comics.

He has illustrated numerous books (War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Decameron, etc.), most of them for young people (the picture book Maruška strapuška, a short story, etc.). He published illustrations in youth periodicals (Kurirček, Ciciban, Pionirski list…), and as a cartoonist he contributed to humorous newspapers (Pavliha, Toti list, Ljudska pravica, Mad magazine. ..), he is known for his comic strips (Gregor Tisiglavca, Merry Holiday, Five Fathers of Nena’s Child, Pika nogavička, Aunt Meta’s Wardrobe…), he has also been a puppeteer and set designer for puppet films.

He has won numerous awards: He won the Tomšič Prize for Caricature (1956 and 1957), the group Prešeren Prize (1959, as Branko Simčič’s collaborator in the design of the Ljubljana Exhibition Centre), the first prize at the International Book Fair in Belgrade for Maruška the Tramp (1977), the Levstik Prize for illustrations for the books Netočka Nezvanova and Ulenspiegel (1978), the third prize for the adult comic strip 5 očeva Neninog deteta (Belgrade 1987), a diploma and prize for the same comic strip, which was named the best Yugoslav comic strip of 1987 by Polet magazine, and the Yugoslav Andrija Maurović Award (1987) for lifetime achievement in the field of comics.