Ivan Cankar: Vodnik po razstavi
Exhibition Guide
The museum exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of the death of the Slovenian writer Ivan Cankar was accompanied by a comprehensively conceived exhibition guide, offering deeper insight into Cankar’s life.
Through the exhibition guide, visitors are taken through the places where Cankar’s life unfolded and which profoundly shaped him: Vrhnika, Ljubljana, Vienna, Pula, and Rožnik Hill. Blaž Vurnik, the author of both the exhibition and the guide, described Cankar as follows: “He was a brilliant writer and storyteller, yet at the same time an everyman, burdened by fears, doubts, longing, and both flawed and noble motives. Fate and history placed him in a space and time that he constantly sought to diagnose. He held up a mirror to society and his contemporaries – one into which no one was willing to look honestly.”
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You can find the English edition of the publication HERE.
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Publisher: Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana, represented by Blaž Peršin, Director
Author: Blaž Vurnik
Co-author: Janez Polajnar
Quotations: Ivan Cankar
English translation of Ivan Cankar’s poem Viennese Evenings (Erotika): Alasdair MacKinnon
Language Editing: Katja Paladin (Slovene), David Limon (English)
English Translation: Maja Visenjak Limon
Illustrations: Bernard Kolle
Design and Layout: Novi kolektivizem
Photographs: MGML, Slovenian Theatre Institute, National Gallery of Slovenia, National and University Library, Rogaška Slatina Folk Museum, the estate of France Dobrovoljec, Zmago Tančič
Print Run: 600 copies (Slovene), 200 copies (English)
Printed by: Collegium Graphicum
Ljubljana, 2018
ISBN: 978-961-6509-55-8