The exhibition of illustrations by Peter Škerl for the new issue of George Orwell's Animal Farm will be on display until 28 August 2014 at the Glass Atrium of the City Hall.

In 1945 George Orwell reflected doubt in collaboration between the Soviet Union and the West in Animal Farm as response to the Teheran Conference. In the following decades Orwell's critical point of his literary work was often limited to some political system, similar to his vision and reflection to this or that ideology. And it only serves as evidence of the reality of its message and overcoming general political markings in the work's timeless value, as it successfully connects to the reader in different political eras in the history and today.

The story of animals with a dream of a regime of equality after their uprising against the cruel farmer, which only leads to pigs degenerating into even crueller masters, is a warning against the often misuse of power, empty political promises and changing political systems by the “from bad to worse” method.
The Slovenian issues of the Orwell's satire have never been illustrated prior to Peter Škerl and his black-and-white illustrations to accompany the original Anglo-Saxon words of Animal Farm.

Peter Škerl has studied Illustration and Visual Communication Design at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana, and is a freelancer since 2002. His body of work boasts over 100 various issues with his contribution of illustration. Škerl has received the Hinko Smrekar Award in 2012 for his extensive work of illustrations in Barbara Simoniti's Močvirniki.

Free entrance. Welcome.