Bojan Klančar,
akademski grafičar

Rođen je 27. aprila 1954. godine u Mariboru, Slovenija. Završio je Dizajnersku školu u Ljubljani. Posle toga je diplomirao na Akademiji lepih umetnosti u Prištini 1981. godine, na katedri za grafiku. Učestvovao je na brojnim izložbama u Sloveniji i inostranstvu. 1990. godine dobio je prvu nagradu za EX LIBRIS - malu grafiku u Parizu. Njegova mala grafika nalazi se u Gutenberg muzeju u Majncu. Radi kao nezavisan i slobodan umetnik u Cerknici (Slovenija).

Bojan Klančar, graphic artist
He was born on April 27, 1954 in Maribor and completed his study at the Design School in Ljubljana. After that he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Priština in 1981 in Graphic Department. He has participated in numerous group-exhibitions at home and abroad. In 1990 he won first prize for EX-LIBRIS – small print in Paris. His small print is to be found in Gutenberg Museum in Mainz. Now he is acting as independent and free-lance artist.

Bojan Klančar`s works take a special place in modern artistic space in technical as well as in substantive sence. Motifs, he discovers continually, are coming out from the environment where he lives and creates. Notranjska with its mysterious Karst world and interminent Cerknica`s lake is the place he is devoted to and inspires his work. This rich landscape offers him endless number of images and impressions and leads him trough neverending modifications-trough all seasons, where the play of light and shadows never ends. He wants to keep that very nature, that is in his heart, original and untouched because every day he is a witness of its dying.

Inspite of thema and motif of veduts and landscape, which are very close to the spectators, remain Klančar independent, inconventional and incommercial. This is a result of his own attitude to graphic art as original. He has limited a number of original prints to a very small number and this is a real rarity nowadays. Technique, used for most of his works, etching and aquitant, is graphical procedure in which masterpieces of Rembrandt and Goya was made.

At printing of his works of art author uses only one colour. He intends to research all elements, obtained by usage of one- coloured print together with final effect of vivacious natural composition. Drawing as the main basis and bearer of further artistic expressions, is decisive and final. An artistic piece of work is made in a moment of very strong impression, catched in white paper and all this create harmony and tension at the same time.

This cycle of graphic works present as Klančar as subtyle observer of nature and details. His works do not express only author’s researches and his attitude to the world around him but also his searching inside him.
He remains faithful to his feelings, artistic starting-point and belief. Modern streams in up-to-date art did not seduce him, they only made him richer.

Polona Škodič