Until 25 May 2012, the Glass Atrium at City Hall is home to an exhibition of illustrations by Danijel Demšar from ‘Angels’, the last collection of poems by Tone Pavček.

In City Hall’s Glass Atrium, the Sončnica (Sunflower) Gallery is hosting an exhibition of graphic prints by Danijel Demšar, put together as illustrations for ‘Angels’, the last poetry collection by Slovene poet, essayist and translator as well as Honorary Citizen of the City of Ljubljana Tone Pavček, who died last year.

Demšar’s psychic landscapes open spaces to the poems and depict them through bonded watercolour transparencies to saturated earth sepias. The artist builds an original, unusual graphic product through his special technique, which includes drawing, computer processing as an intermediate link and a special printing method. The dimensions of techniques are revealed via the finest, soft, barely perceptible mist to heavy monumental figures of angels. The angels are both friendly, gentle, spiritual shadows of love and care, and dangerous, threatening pitch-black images of misfortune. In this poetic organism, we encounter the worlds of two powerful creators. Each is completely sovereign, while in fusion they create together a powerful poetic experience that goes far beyond the sum of their parts. Countless layers of verbal and visual meaning are woven together and form a compact, dense atmosphere of an unforgettable book.