Salt panning
For centuries, the salt pans in the northern Adriatic Sea area long had a significant impact on the economy of the countries and city-states in this area. They were the subject of political disputes and wars as salt was considered a precious raw material and strategic merchandise due to its usefulness, and was important for the preservation of food and the production of gunpowder. In the past, there were a number of smaller and larger salt pans in the Gulf of Trieste and Istria (e.g. in Milje, Koper, Izola, Lucija), however, today only the Sečovlje and Strunjan salt pans remain. They were not only characterized by political and economic interests, but also by the whims of nature which sometimes made salt production impossible for longer periods, however, sometimes it offered an over-abundance.
In the abundance of different kinds of high-quality salts, Piran salt is one of the most prominent as it is cultivated according to the method of more than 700 years ago. The Sečovlje salt pans are the northernmost still functioning salt pans in the Mediterranean area and one of the few salt pans in the world where salt is produced after several centuries-old processes originating from at least the 14th century. Their speciality is that the salt pan workers cultivate petola at the bottom of the crystallization ponds. This is a biosediment which prevents the sea mud merging with the salt and gives the salt numerous microelements and minerals necessary for the human organism. It is cultivated completely through natural crystallization using their bare hands, and the tools and procedures of their ancestors.
Salt panning distinctively shaped the cultural landscape, i.e. areas that are the work of human hands.
"(NOT) A DROP IN THE OCEAN" Mojca Gazič
19. 3. 2024
We kindly invite you to the opening of the exhibition of contemporary jewellery by the author MOJCA GAZIČ "(NOT) A DROP IN THE OCEAN" which will be held at the Lera Gallery in the Sečovlje Salina Nature Park on Thursday, 21 March 2024 at 6 p.m.
We kindly invite you to the opening of the exhibition of contemporary jewellery by the author MOJCA GAZIČ
"(NOT) A DROP IN THE OCEAN"
which will be held at the Lera Gallery in the Sečovlje Salina Nature Park on Thursday, 21 March 2024, at 6 p.m.
The inauguration of the exhibition will also be accompanied by music, with singer Manca Kozlovič and pianist Denis Horvat.
The exhibition will be on display from Monday to Sunday until 12 May 2024. Gallery opening hours.
THE AUTHOR AND THE EXHIBITION
Mojca Gazič completed her Master's degree in Unique Design at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in 2012, under the supervision of Professor Tanja Pak. She has been involved in goldsmithing since 2016 when she first attended a long workshop with a master goldsmith in Padua. This was followed by advanced training at goldsmith schools in Florence and Rome. She makes jewellery mainly in silver, interweaving different goldsmithing techniques. The exhibition of contemporary jewellery is accompanied by a series of photographs on canvas, which present a macro view of the work surface where the jewellery is made.
''The world seems to present us with increasingly complex life situations and challenges, sometimes very difficult to define. The logic of thinking in the past seems to collapse and sometimes one feels that one has no control over events and that all one's efforts and commitment to a better tomorrow are just a drop in the ocean. Yet, without all the drops, there would be no ocean: every drop counts. We are all part of the whole. And we are all the whole.
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