Herman Gvardjančič
Herman Gvardjančič (born 21 October 1943, in Gorenja vas, Škofja Loka), is a Slovene painter.His studies brought him into contact with other famous Slovene painters including France Mihelič, Marij Pregelj and Gabrijel Stupica.In his opus we recognise that he is a painter of culture and ethics of late modernism and, despite the widespread use of new media, he insists on the expressive power of traditional painting and drawing.He trusts the visual power of his work through which he expresses the existential validity of the subjective experiences of birth, life and death.»Gvardjančič’s past and present painting - with its power to restore the foundations of a long nurtured and progressive movement within the permanently adopted and firmly embedded experience - insisted on the artist's strong belief in the expressive power of painting as a permanent historical artistic discipline and also the belief in his own painting, which cooperates with its visibility and participation in an endless world of contemporary art at the crossroads of the 20th and 21st century.« Wrote the art critic Ješa Denegri.[1]His works are present in several collections in Slovenia and abroad (Karlovac, Sombor, Rijeka, Zagreb, Belgrade, Graz, Kunsan, Lisbon, Hiroshima, Tokyo, Vienna).