The world, that is created by Marija Lucija Stupica, is the world of tenderness, expectation, joy and also the world of pain and fear. Unobtrusive sympathy and grace, that are in her illustrations, carry inside themselves the emotional load which, with all the seriousness, avoids sentimentality of any kind. The scheme of this painted world in such that it suits optimistic fairy tales of Grimm brothers, as well as pessimistic, mythical alike fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen. Marija Lucija Stupica mediates this silent world in a very appropriate way. She masterfully presents it as a world, that for the moment looks as it is not painted with colours on the paper, but it is put together from old and fragile spider’web that could easily collapse into dust if we touched this world or disturb its peace with talking. The fairy world of Marija Lucija Stupica, also to us who gave up what was childish, in the way of silent communication, talks similar melancholically as Shakespeare in the first act of fourth scene of the Tempest:

The exhibition “Unknown Lojze Spacal” reveals works of his less well known opus, bound in content to Slovene Istria. The drawings and pictures on paper shown,  found by chance in the last year of his life in the attic of a Trieste apartment, also provide a historical insight into the master’s most explanatory period, when he withdrew radically from the magic of realism, and entirely unencumbered by topical European trends and Italian metaphysical painting, or by the social realism established in the Slovene space, developed recognizable art style of his own. It was simultaneously the time that moulded the master’s whole creative vitality for life: Picasso’s well known simple motto and only real truth on an always enigmatic creative path.