On view: from December 5, 2017 to January 5, 2018
The Tone Stojko exhibition, Yellowed Photographs: Cuba 1978, reveals part of his rich photographic opus kept by the national institution, the National Museum of Contemporary History.
As a photographer of the weekly Mladina, officially covering the 11th World Festival of Young People and Students in Cuba at the height of summer 1978, he supplemented his opus with remarkable photographs of his wanderings, adding a distinctive personal view of the largest Caribbean Island twenty years after the rise of Fidel Castro to power.
Over thirty, mostly black and white photographs, draws the visitor into the bustle of Cuban streets and the intimacy of buildings along them, among the performing Slovenian and Yugoslav artists at the festival, which brought together in one place young people of different nationalities and political systems, and the speaker’s stage of the long-standing Cuban leader.
The photographically remarkable “colourfulness” of the carnival events is evident even from the black and white photographs, the concert pulse of the group September and the imposing portrait of Fidel Castro are just a few motifs from the new exhibition of Tone Stojko, which is undoubtedly worth seeing.
