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Melita Vovk<\/strong> was born on 14 June 1928 in Bled. In 1951 she graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. In the years 1951\u20131953 she pursued a specialisation course in graphic arts under Bo\u017eidar Jakac (3 terms) and earned her specialisation degree in 1972 from Riko Debenjak. First, she got a job as a teacher at the lower grammar school in Bled (1953\u20131956) but soon began to work as a freelance artist (1957\u20131973). Later, she was appointed senior scenography lecturer at the Academy of Performing Arts in Ljubljana (1974\u20131977) but she returned to freelancing again and was self-employed until she retired in 1984. In 1957 she married the writer Bojan \u0160tih (their daughter, Marija Ejti \u0160tih, is also a painter). From 1979 to 1980 she was married to Dutch painter Roelof Frankot (1911\u20131984). She travelled widely and extensively, mostly across Europe. Her interests included painting, graphic arts, drawing, illustration, scenography, costume design and caricature. After 1956 Vovk\u2019s artistic focus shifted towards scenography and costume design, and she produced drafts for over 50 theatre performances. In 1974 she was awarded the Bor\u0161tnik Diploma for her contributions to costume design and in 1977 she received the Bor\u0161tnik Diploma for scenography. However, the central point of her work was illustration. Melita Vovk illustrated over 80 monographs, and published illustrations for literary sequels in periodic publications. She earned the Levstik Award twice (1957, 1964), the \u2018Mlado pokoljenje\u2019 Award (Belgrade, 1965), and was awarded the Hinko Smrekar Lifetime Achievement Award at the 9th Slovenian Biennial of Illustration (2010). She painted the portraits of many famous writers as they came to Bled for International writers\u2019 Meetings (PEN). Melita Vovk authored several entertaining travel accounts which she also illustrated with drawings. She also wrote professional articles about selected professional issues, as well as memoir notes. On Bled Municipal Holiday in 2008, she was named the honorary citizen of the Municipality of Bled. Melita Vovk died on 22 June 2020 in Radovljica. <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/obrazibleda.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Melita-Vovk_pasica.jpeg” title_text=”Melita-Vovk_pasica” _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font_size=”36px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”3_4,1_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.25.0″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n \u2018Over the last decade, the Bled Culture Institute\u2019s efforts were primarily focused on investments in renovation of the buildings and assets we manage. Thus we have managed to completely renovate Bled Castle and the Bled Congress Centre (Festival Hall). In line with our mission and with an aim to provide these buildings with high-quality content, we have set off on a new path: we started a long-term project \u2018November Opus\u2019 with an aim to prepare an in-depth presentation every year of a person who was and is important for Bled, its public image and development. Because of the pandemic, the project was launched six months later than originally planned. The first artist in focus was Melita Vovk, a painter and honorary citizen of the Bled Municipality, who passed away in 2021.<\/p>\n Vovk\u2019s immense creative genius may have been kept behind the doors of her home for too long. We are truly grateful and pleased that with the consent and support of Melita\u2019s daughter Ejti \u0160tih, an acclaimed painter herself, and other collaborators we have finally arrived at a point where we are able to present Melita Vovk and her life-long work to the public in a more extensive and detailed manner than ever before. We are proud she called Bled her home and we hope that with this presentation, we have at least partially repaid her efforts and thanked her for everything she has done for Bled.<\/p>\n I sincerely hope that we will be able to continue this project in the future years, shedding light on more people who have co-created and promoted the image and essence of Bled through their work.<\/p>\n There were people who comprehended the diversity and authenticity of Melita Vovk\u2019s legacy when the artist was still with us. I, on the other hand, only learned of her rich oeuvre last summer, when Melita\u2019s daughter Ejti \u0160tih collected and arranged her mother\u2019s legacy a year after the artist\u2019s demise. The idea to commemorate the artist with a one-month exhibition at the STOLP (Tower) Gallery at Bled Castle evolved into a great Bled exhibition \u2018Melita Vovk \u2013 Up Close and Personal\u2019, which spans eight venues and over 500 original works, a considerable part of which are put on display for the first time. The exhibition was accompanied by a book set of the same name, which lays out the life and work of the artist on 500 pages. Ejti catalogued the artistic treasure she uncovered in the attic of Melita\u2019s villa into sets, each of which we allocated to one of the eight venues depending on the character of the exhibits and the space available.<\/p>\n Prior to the exhibition, Ejti has already donated the works from the categories \u2018Theatre, Puppets and TV\u2019 and \u2018PEN portraits\u2019 to competent institutions. The graphic art selection was made by Ana Marija Kunstelj. Apart from all her known works and large-format paintings, Melita Vovk\u2019s many seemingly insignificant, aged, crumpled pieces of paper proved to be an equally important part of her legacy. As parts of Melita\u2019s personal diary executed in (exquisite) drawing, they support the main idea of the project \u2013 to present the artist to the public beyond the artistic merit of her work \u2013 as a visionary, a (witty) explorer, a complex, multi-layered human being. \u201cAt my mom\u2019s funeral there were no sad songs sung by children\u2019s choirs; the air was filled with the sound of Luis Armstrong\u2019s trumpet and piano. The exhibition and the book set convey the same idea: varied, merry and unbridled,\u201d said Ejti \u0160tih. The most challenging task I encountered in the course of prepping the exhibition was digitalization of Vovk\u2019s work, as I had to digitize and process over 2,000 items. Our goal was to simultaneously create a digital archive which will \u2013 in addition to the exhibition and book set \u2013 be the third pillar for any further research studies, as well as a record for posterity. Creating the visual image of the project was another challenge. When working with such a massive oeuvre, the leitmotif is difficult to pinpoint. The underlying sign is Melita\u2019s line self-portrait from 1973 and a visually neutral signature which does not seem to move in any particular direction. The secondary element are extracts from the painter\u2019s fantastic colourful landscapes that speak about her dynamic usage of colour and activity across various fields of artistic expression. This core motif is supplemented by the element of handwriting, which symbolizes Melita\u2019s inherent need to document and record, and by black dots in a raster arrangement as symbols of her for various publications. Melita Vovk illustrated over 80 books and published in papers countless illustrations, caricatures, soapy and humorous designs and portraits.<\/p>\n Due to the complexity of Melita Vovk\u2019s oeuvre, the creation of the book set was a challenging task; Ejti\u2019s help from overseas was particularly valuable in the initial and final phases as she was generous with ideas, opinions and perceptions of an astute artistic eye. The deadlines for finalizing the book were tight, for authors and for me. The authors began writing their contributions in mid-February, when I started digitizing the works. In the end, we only had four weeks for proofreading, editing and graphic design, which was crazy given the scope of the material, but we somehow made it possible. In terms of the concept, the book set is divided into two parts \u2013 life and work.<\/p>\n The first book, The Biography of an Artist 1928 \u2013 2020, describes Melita Vovk\u2019s life on 180 pages, supporting the text with rich photographic material, while the second book, Creations, brings a collection of research papers on Melita\u2019s diverse creative achievements. In terms of design, the second book was particularly complex as it centred on multiple galleries of the painter\u2019s prominent and informative from nine fields of work.<\/p>\n Additionally, we needed to create a separate visual identity and structure for the book set. If I exercised discretion on the inside of the book, letting the works of art to fully shine, I took a bit more creative freedom when designing the covers.<\/p>\n The covers of both volumes form a pair of complementing self-portraits, whereby the Biography\u2019s self-portrait rendered in oil symbolizes Life, Passion, Character, the other one, executed in line, creates a space for her artistic expression in its monochrome, clear caricature. The wrapping that binds both books into a set is another hint at playfulness and mystery.<\/p>\n The biography of Melita Vovk intertwines the artist\u2019s personal life and creative work. In the background of this twirl I presented the circumstances that shaped Melita\u2019s growing up in the cosmopolitan Bled in the period of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, her schooling during the Second World War and in the post-war period, and her creative endeavours in the ex-Yugoslavia and in Slovenia as an independent state. The main source of all the stories and anecdotes summarized in the biography are the artist\u2019s diaries and her talks with daughter Ejti and sister Dudi.<\/p>\n I thought Melita was a really interesting person in all aspects even before I delved deep into her personality by reading her diaries. In 2015, when she had her last solo exhibition at the Be\u017eigrad Gallery in Ljubljana, we talked about her artistic career for newspaper Delo\u2019s Sobotna priloga. When I contacted her to ask for an interview, she modestly tried to wriggle out of the invitation, saying that nobody knew her anymore and she didn\u2019t know who would be interested in anything she had to say. When she finally agreed to meet me, I was stunned by her exciting life story. Despite her age \u2013 she was 87 at the time \u2013 her excellent memory and lucid analysis of current events were amazing. When the interview was published, she admitted that she was pleased with the reaction it got, especially from her fellow townspeople. This year, when I was invited to write her biography and granted access to her writings, my suspicion about Melita Vovk mas a charismatic and truly unique artistic persona was instantly confirmed.<\/p>\n Melita began writing her journals in 1936 and kept the habit throughout her life, until 2018, when she wrote her last entries. There were years when journal entries filled several notebooks, and there were times when she barely wrote anything at all, except perhaps a short note on a piece of paper she pushed between the old diaries. When I was browsing her records for some information about when she divorced her first husband, theatre manager Bojan \u0160tih, I could not find any mention of it anywhere, not even in the official photographs. Finally, I came across a note for the year 1975, which stated briefly: divorce 10 July 1975 in Ljubljana. She did not share everything with her diary, though, as she openly admitted in the introduction to the first journal. She only wrote what she felt comfortable sharing with anyone who might have come across her notebook, but hinted that she would write her most intimate thoughts elsewhere.<\/p>\n So I wonder whether there might some other, hidden, diaries have remained secret until this day. What touched me most in her diary entries? First, the fact that she knew that art was her path and mission in life when she was only eight years old.<\/p>\n In her first diary she wrote that \u201cNature bestows upon an artist a gift of art \u2013 a golden goblet filled with mystery that is there for the artist to share. Mystery is the fluid that flows through the heart, cleansing itself in the lake of the soul. Whoever drinks from the chalice of art shall remember that the liquid it holds strengthens not the body but the soul.\u201d Another revelation of the journals is Melita\u2019s talent for writing. Her language was rich, sumptuous and witty. She could paint people, events and contemplations vividly and clearly, funnily even, using words instead of brushes. Her journal entries sound like literary works. She could have easily become a writer. Equally surprising is Melita\u2019s writing style, and the things she puts in focus. For example, when she writes about Armstrong\u2019s concert she attended in Munich in 1952, her account of the concert atmosphere is suddenly interrupted by a note on the prices of foodstuffs in Germany and the earnings people of different professions make, before moving back to reporting on the concert.<\/p>\n This case illustrates the chain-of-thought technique in writing journals. Wherever her thoughts took her, her pen followed, creating, amazingly, painting with words. Growing up in Bled, which was in the pre-war period a mundane tourist resort that drew to this area royals and dignitaries from all over Europe, Melita Vovk perceived the world as an open space from her early days.<\/p>\n She always seized the opportunities offered by her cosmopolitan home town. In 1952 she met British writer Lawrence Durrell, whose works, e.g. the Alexandrian Quartet, are popular to the present day. Durrell helped Vovk overcome the obstacles she faced before her first travel abroad from the then-closed socialist Yugoslavia. It is said that Melita and Durrell stayed in touch afterwards, but it unclear whether any of their correspondence has been preserved, and if yes, where it is kept. On her travels and study tours in Holland, France and England, Vovk easily connected with famous artists such as Henry Moore and Joseph Beuys.<\/p>\n An adventure is not an adventure if it is not exciting, inspiring, amazing, filled with an occasional challenge, danger, trick or riddle \u2013 only then will it become imprinted on one\u2019s memory forever. Exploring Melita Vovk\u2019s body of art was an adventure in all these aspects.<\/p>\n I thought I knew Melita. At least to a point. Oh, was I mistaken, and so are most of other people who like to think they knew Melita. They are mostly likely outnumbered by people who don\u2019t know Melita Vovk at all. And this is the aim of this book \u2013 both books, actually: to introduce Melita Vovk and her art to the public. Up close and in person.<\/p>\n With the help of her daughter Ejti, who took it upon herself to collect the legacy of the \u2018beekeeper of images\u2019, as Boris A. Novak called Melita Vovk in his poem \u2018Zamirajo\u010di sonet za Melito Vovk\u2019 (\u2018The Fading Sonet for Melita Vovk\u2019), we were able to lift the curtain and open the chest of treasures. The feeling upon encountering her artistic matter is closest to the sensation of a child who discovers that his playroom has another door which opens into another room with toys, and this room opens up into another, with another door.<\/p>\n In the text she wrote for the catalogue that accompanied the exhibition on the 20th anniversary of Group 53 (City Gallery, Ljubljana, 1973), Melita Vovk predicted that researchers of her work are likely to find themselves in a pickle. \u201cMy artistic works [\u2026] have been scattered around and are nowhere to be found. No system, no documentation, no collector\u2019s passion to preserve.\u201d So true. The basis for the book is what Melita Vovk left behind for our curious eyes, in her folders and boxes (no system, no documentation). The presentation is far from perfect \u2013 there is plenty of space left for a detailed analysis of her oeuvre, including the timelines and dates.<\/p>\n During the time we had, the authors did their best to present Melita Vovk in all the facets of her artistic creativity, with all the diversity, open-mindedness, spirit, courage and incredible talent she possessed. Up close. A thorough and extremely well-written biography by Lidija Pavlov\u010di\u010d helps us understand Melita better: the book reads like a novel. Valuable work was also done by Tatjana Pregl Kobe, Tea Rogelj, Edi Majaron, Marko Ko\u010devar and Janez Fajfar. Certain fields are better documented, others a bit less, some take up considerable space in the oeuvre, and the chapters of the books aptly adjust.<\/p>\n The books accompany the exhibition MELITA VOVK \u2013 Up close and personal, which was on display in Bled and Ljubljana in June and July 2021 but not as exhibition catalogues since they partly touch upon the works not included in the exhibition. The idea of a small exhibition in Bled evolved into a grand exhibition staged on eight venues and in extensive publications. An adventure, of course. I like to imagine Melita would be pleased.<\/p>\n This accomplishment would not be possible without the courage of the Bled Culture Institute, the trust of Ejti \u0160tih, countless hours of tiresome work, persistence and patience of the project coordinator and designer, Andreja Zavr\u0161nik, and the willingness to work under extremely tight deadlines of all authors of texts submitted to the project. I think that meeting Melita up close and in person has left us all richer and better.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/obrazibleda.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Melita-Vovk_logo.jpeg” title_text=”Melita-Vovk_logo” _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/obrazibleda.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2021_06_17_Melita-Vovk_tiskovna_Blejski-grad_Dudi-Vovk_monografiji_razstave-Mirko-Kunsic-small-SMALL_WATERMARK-21-1-800×533-1.jpeg” title_text=”2021_06_17_Melita-Vovk_tiskovna_Blejski-grad_Dudi-Vovk_monografiji_razstave-Mirko-Kunsic-small-SMALL_WATERMARK-21-1-800×533″ show_in_lightbox=”on” _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”14px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Press conference on the occasion of the publication of the book set MELITA VOVK \u2013 Up close and personal. 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(photo: Mirko Kun\u0161i\u010d) <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/obrazibleda.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MV_naslovnici-800×450-1.jpeg” title_text=”MV_naslovnici-800×450″ show_in_lightbox=”on” _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”14px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n MELITA VOVK \u2013 Up close and personal, book. 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In 1951 she graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. In the years 1951\u20131953 she pursued a specialisation course in graphic arts under Bo\u017eidar Jakac (3 terms) and earned her specialisation degree in 1972 from Riko Debenjak. 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IMPRESSIONS \u2013 Matja\u017e Zavr\u0161nik<\/h3>\n
BOOK DESIGN, THE CONCEPT OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION IN BLED AND DIGITALIZATION OF MELITA VOVK\u2019S ARTISTIC LEGACY \u2013 Andreja Zavr\u0161nik<\/h3>\n
BIOGRAPHY AND HIGHLIGHTS \u2013 Lidija Pavlov\u010di\u010d
\n<\/h3>\nMEETING MELITA VOVK UP CLOSE \u2013 Ana Marija Kunstelj<\/h3>\n
CONCURRENT EXHIBITIONS (June and July 2021)<\/h1>\n
Collages and fantastic drawings \u2013 STOLP Gallery, Bled Castle<\/h2>\n
Stations of the Cross \u2013 Chapel, Bled Castle<\/h2>\n
Graphic Art \u2013 Museum Hall, Bled Castle<\/h2>\n
Paintings, Fantasy art, Landscape paintings, Theatre \u2013 Bled Congress Centre<\/h2>\n
Self Portraits, Story Time, Family \u2013 Melita Vovk Gallery<\/h2>\n
Croquis \u2013 Apropo Cafe<\/h2>\n
Selected Illustrations \u2013 Bla\u017e Kumerdej Library Bled<\/h2>\n
Exhibition of Illustrations \u2013 Josef Stefan Institute Gallery<\/h2>\n