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Conversation along the exhibition / Bojan Golija - a retrospective
Maribor Art Gallery, Strossmayerjeva 6
Saturday, 7 October 2017, 11:00
Guided by: Breda Kolar Sluga, UGM director; prof. Darko Golija, acad. sculptor spec. painter and art pedagogue Martina Golija

Kindly invited to join Breda Kolar Sluga, Darko and Martina Golija, who will enlighten the view on Bojan Golija's work through his son's and wife's perspective as well as from a proffesional point of view.

The first major posthumous overview of works by Slovene graphic artist and art educator Bojan Golija (1932-2014) offers an opportunity for a comprehensive evaluation of the artist's exceptional and varied opus, created during six decades of the second half of the twentieth century. Studies under the mentorship of Božidar Jakac, and a formative journey to Japan in 1957, inspired a life dedicated to the explorations of the possibilities of graphic arts and devoted to visual arts education, teaching at the Faculty of Education at the University of Maribor. The exhibition features over 150 original prints and drawings from the collection of the Maribor Art Gallery and from the artist's estate, many of which are presented to the public for the first time. 

Bojan Golija was born in Maribor in 1932. In 1954 he graduated from the Academy of Representational Arts in Ljubljana (today the Academy of Fine Arts and Design), and after two more years completed specialist studies in graphic arts under professor Božidar Jakac. In 1957 he travelled to Japan on a study visit, staying there for six months. Upon returning he was first employed as a drawing teacher at the elementary school in Kamnica near Maribor, and then at the Maribor college of education, and at the gymnasium for education in Maribor. He was among the first professors at the Maribor Academy of Education, later renamed to the Faculty of Education of the University of Maribor. For his achievements and an outstanding success in pedagogical work he received the title of Emeritus art educator of Yugoslavia (1978), and the National order of merit with a silver star (1978). Following his retirement, the Senate of the University of Maribor awarded him the title of Emeritus Professor in 1999. He died on 14 January 2014.

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