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The National Gallery of Slovenia Opens a Luigi Spazzapan Retrospective

artwork: Luigi Spazzapan - "Dragoons on Horses", 1936 - Tempera on cardboard. Collection of the National Gallery of Slovenia. On view in "Luigi Spazzapan 1889-1958: Donation by Nuša Lapajne" until August.


Ljubljana, Slovenia.- The National Gallery of Slovenia is proud to present a Luigi Spazzapan retrospective, drawn from the works donated to the museum by the artist’s daughter, Mrs Nuša Lapajne. “Luigi Spazzapan 1889-1958: Donation by Nuša Lapajne” will be on view at the museum until August. Luigi Spazzapan is one of those Slovenian artists of the 20th century who have shared their cultural identity on the western border of Slovenia. If he could capitalize on his multicultural origins, that same multiculturality left intolerable gaps in his biography after his death because of the particular circumstances of his turbulent life. Just as the track of his Slovenian pre-history was lost in the new environment, audiences in Slovenia have had no knowledge about his work after his move to Turin.