This exhibition brings together works by Slovenian painters who lived and worked in the Italian city of Trieste, just across the Slovenian border, in the period between 1945 and 1960.
These painters developed their artistic expression under the influence of Slovenian modernism and avant-garde and in close contact with Italian artists and culture. Their paintings were often themed on the life of the coastal city of Trieste and the distinctive landscape of the Slovenian Kras and Istria in its hinterland.
The paintings on display are by Milko Bambič (1905-1991), Jože Cesar (1907-1980), Avgust Černigoj (1898-1985), Bogdan Grom (born 1918), Robert Hlavaty (1897-1982), Avrelij Lukežič (1912-1980), Lojze Spacal (1907-2000) and Rudolf Saksida (1913-1985).