Banja Luka, 8.2.2013
This year, we celebrated Slovenian cultural holiday with an exhibition "Slovenian country legends and customs" by author Simon Šubic which was held on the premises of the National Minorities’ Club.
Owing to the Slovenian Emigrants’ Society (SIM), which was the initiator, we organised this joint project and, to members of the Association and numerous visitors, we presented paintings by a self-made painter who uses his paintings to present, as mentioned in the catalogue, "figural painting".
Motives for paintings, as the author himself stated, are found in near and far vicinity of places and people. He gets the inspiration from already existing paintings by well-known authors e.g. Martin Gaspari and others, whose works we can find all over the world. Simon Šubic paints country legends, customs, people and, in his own manner, wherever his exhibition is organised, along with a song, transfers part of richness of Slovenian culture. Mrs. Vesna Vukšinič Zmaić, general secretary of SIM greeted all the attendees on behalf of SIM whereupon Head of Consular Office in Banja Luka Branko Zupanc commended close cooperation between our Association and SIM in the implementation and successful organisation of the exhibition on the occasion of marking the Slovenian cultural holiday. On that occasion, he invited the attendees to enjoy the exhibition, which gives versatile view to the past, country legends, customs and people. Having said that, he opened the exhibition.
Numerous visitors, including many members of other nationalities, friends of all cultural events organised by our Association, were with us on this 8 February, despite the cold weather. Together with us they enjoyed the exhibition, talking to the author, listening to songs, written and composed by the author himself, interesting comments by individuals concerning some of the paintings, which reminded them of the childhood, youth spent somewhere in Slovenia, at their relatives. We socialised for a long time in pleasant atmosphere, with tasty buffet and refreshment.
Nataša Kajmaković
