Ladies and Gentlemen. Dear Mr. municipality Chief and President of the
Culture Adviser Office of the Principal Government. Very honoured
representatives of the Embassy
and the Consulate of the Republic of Croatia in Switzerland*. Loves family
members.
It is a large honour for me, here and today, tell You a few words about my
pictures, which are shown on the Calendar of the municipality** Ruggell.
Perhaps I tell also a few
things in addition. It makes me extraordinarily happy that I could carry out
this small artistic project and therefore I want just say thanks to
municipality Chief Jakob Buechel. The motives of the municipality, it adopted
me officially one year ago, I have been know already for a long time, but now
I could experience them again, first in the Natives, and then on my canvases.
And it did well to my internal.
This type of the painting, which is for the viewer at the start of its
regarding equal understandable, I don't use in my newer works. But my current
artistically reaction, to
understand it correctly, I would like to say that I react in such a way from
time to time, for only one reason: I look it back, to check how far forward I
came!
However, funny was the reaction of one of my acquaintance. He knows also my
other works and recently he asked himself, if he saw these pictures: What is
now the matter
with him? Does he paint now suddenly also like Mrs. Mueller and Mrs. Meier?
Naturally, thus is meant whether I'm lost a little and sold myself for only
few Franks (CHF) and paint now as everyone and everyone. Still I enjoy the
liberty to deciding me which
I will pictorial do and give everyone the chance to invent on it theirs
Stories. And it will be always like that. I use the opportunity to thank,
first of all to Yvonne, but then also to her family, for theirs goodness.
I would like to thank also at the culture commission of the municipality,
which, a few years ago, supported idea of my wife and me. It concerned a
financial support of the
interior creating of the chapel on the today's property of the family Alois
and Manuela Hoop. In this chapel are one picture and three wood figures of
my two acquaintance***, academically trained artists from my first homeland -
Croatia.
I reported about it in an issue of the Croatian Newspaper "Hrvatski
dijasporski list". Thus Two from Ruggell became still more well-known. The
chapel and the woman. I am
genuinely glad that I, or better said WE succeeded, to place on legs
something from positive vibrations at the relation Croatia - Liechtenstein -
Croatia. With very few means and almost exclusively with the strength of our
good will. Here some proofs for it - (I gave to show to the guests my
Interviews with the Mrs. Dr. Andrea Willi,
former culture minister and minister of foreign affairs from Liechtenstein
and also interview with Mr. Josef Frommelt, the former director of the
Liechtenstein school of music and president of the European music school
union). One of that, for me most important and most interesting moments of
such efforts, were exhibitions with my artist colleague Arno Oehri from
Ruggell, this year in Croatia. It will hopefully continue to go also in such
a way.
Thanks for your attention.
Vlado Franjevics laudatio by Promotion of his Artist-Calender of
Municipality of Ruggel in the Principality of Liechtenstein, 9.11.2001
* Mr. Josip Spoljaric (Embassy) and Mr. Tony Glowatzky (Consulat)
** Principality of Liechtenstein is very small country. This country has 11
municipalities, and that's all. Ruggell is the nordest one and closed to
Austrias border. (See also: www.ruggell.li) Write also hello to municipality
chief Mr. Jakob Büchel at: jakob.buechel@ruggell.li
*** Zdravko Djerek and Robert Zdarilek
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