The exhibition Maleš –Mušič friends and coworkers is a project brought together by private art gallery Furlan and Goriški museum.

Curator: Breda Ilich Klančnik

After its first exposure on Dobrovo Castle last autum the exhibition Maleš- Mušič- friends and coworkers takes place again in Kamnik. The exhibition shows a documentary story of friendship and cooporation between two important slovene artists of the past century- Miha Maleš and Zoran Mušič.

In 1935 Miha Maleš addressed a letter for the first time to six years younger colleague, the Zagreb fine art academy graduate Zoran Mušič, and asked him to write a few travel impressions from Spain for the first issue of the newly founded magazine Umetnost(Art).

Mušič's fragmentarily preserved correspondence from Maleš legacy tells us about long and close friendship which is connected (between 1935 and 1944) mainly with the magazine Umetnost and later on, for Mušič had left his homeland and spent his life between Paris and Venice, it means a bond with his homeland  as well. Through the exhibition invitations and catalogues sent, information  about Mušič's work and brillliant successes on the international art stage are being reveled.

The value of the correspondence from far away past is suppported by art works orienteted on two towns which are connected to both artists. If Venice signified for Mušič first a shelter in an exile then later the cosmopolitan Paris was his free choise, Maleš came to Venice, traditionally an obligatory journey of pilgrimage for artists and first made for Paris in the nineteen fifties partly with business interests and illustration tasks for the publishing  house Societe ODE.

Apart from the documetary material Maleš's art works connected to Paris and Venice are exposed, as well as Mušič's works of art in Maleš's collection.