Monument: Bor na obali

Sculpture in the City - a collaboration between HIT and the Slovenian Ministry of Culture

The third in a series of sculptures from the Sculptures in the City project, for which a cooperation agreement was concluded by HIT (as the financier), the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the municipality of Nova Gorica with the aim of enriching the urban space with five important sculptural creations, is a sculpture by one of Slovenia's leading sculptors, Jakov Brdar, Pine on the Coast (from the Sermon to the Birds series), which was placed in front of the Goriška Library of France Bevk in 2001. Brdar's tree with a tall and slender stem, on which a bird perched, placed in front of Ravnikar's pure modernist architecture, strikes us with its elegance, subtlety and at the same time strong confessional power. 

Andrej Medved wrote somewhere that Brdar's sculptures are "a spiritual-sensual experience in which all styles are present, transcending all artistic approaches, and in each of his works one can recognise an original 'Brdarian' gesture". One of the main characteristics of his sculpture is the impression that some important paintings from the history of art have made on him. In this case, parallels can be drawn with Giotto's famous fresco Sermon to the Birds in the upper basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, or with the tree in the famous painting of the same name by the Italian Futurist painter Carlo Carra.

Avtor: Pavla Jarc

Kraj: Nova Gorica

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Excerpt from the article:

Pavla Jarc: Javni spomeniki in skulpture v mestu, Razpotja Nove Gorice, št. 29, zima 2017 (https://razpotja.si/razpotja_article/javni-spomeniki-in-skulpture-v-mestu/)

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