An exhibition of the academic graphic designer Lojze Logar as part of the Zenica Spring Festival began today at 13:00 in the Museum Gallery of the city of Zenica. The Slovenian Ambassador to BiH Andrej Grasselli and the Mayor of Zenica Husejin Smajlović opened the exhibition. Tonight there will be a concert of young guitarist Mak Grgić as part of the Sarajevo Winter Festival starting at 19:00 in the Bosniak Institute in Sarajevo.
In a statement to ‘Sarajevo Times”, the Third Secretary of the Slovenian Embassy to BiH Matija Bučar said, ”both events are part of wider manifestations, and the Slovenian Embassy is participating as a sponsor. Our budget for culture is significantly smaller than other larger embassies, but we are nonetheless trying to bring some artists to a higher level. There are two exceptional artists and the Embassy is glad to support their work and to present them to the wider BiH public. In a way it is interesting that on the same day very talented older and younger artists are being presented.
‘’The Embassy wishes to expand cultural events throughout BiH, and for this reason we are attending the Zenica Spring Festival. Last year we brought the exhibition “Naši Roditelji Su Iz BiH” (Our Parents are from BiH) to Tuzla, and the manifestation “Dani Slovenskog Filma” (Days of Slovenian Films) was shown in Sarajevo, Zenica and Bihać, and it is expected that it will be brought to Tuzla soon. We will work to include as many BiH cities as possible’’, said Bučar for ‘’Sarajevo Times’’.
More information on the exhibition of Lojze Logar can be found in a catalogue that was prepared together with the organizers of the festival of Zenica Spring and the civil society organization of Slovenian origin ‘Encijan” from Zenica, and which was specifically made for the opening.
Mak Grgić was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1987. He continues to follow the path of the best guitarists belonging to the younger generation that gave rise to the Croatian school of guitar. He studies in Zagreb with Ante Cagalj at the Elly Basic Conservatory of Music and at the Music University in Vienna, Austria. He is currently doing his post-diplomatic studies in Los Angeles.
Mak participated last year in a concert last year in Sarajevo as part of the best young Slovenian musicians.
