Tag: Slovenia
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Slovenia: A young, independent country
The maps of the world are ever-changing as small principalities grow into mighty empires, which, in their turn, decline and break apart. The Slovenians, ever since their arrival from the Eastern European plains, have been part of several permutations and combinations, eventually belonging to the Habsburg Empire, which itself began as a small territory at…
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Ivan Čobal’s “Blue Wall” at the Maribor University Clinical Centre in Slovenia
Mojca RamšakLjubljana, Slovenia Patients, physicians, and staff at Maribor University Clinical Centre pass an extraordinary piece of artwork each day: a blue wall made of elongated ceramic tiles with welded iron metal reliefs. The “Blue Wall,” officially titled Times Were Better Once (Nekoč so bili boljši časi), is a 3.4 x 16-meter wall featuring two-dimensional…