On the occasion of the Croatian Book Month, which in 2018 is dedicated to Croatian cultural heritage, the Faculty of Economics and Business in Osijek hosted a thematic exhibition and organized the Life of the Glagolitic Script at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Osijek.
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Life of the Glagolitic script at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Osijek
On the occasion of the Croatian Book Month we invite everyone interested to participate in the author’s guide through the “Life of the Glagolitic script at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Osijek” on Monday, 12 November 2018 at 1 p.m.. Authors prof. Jasna Horvat, PhD and associate professor Josipa Mijoč, PhD PhD will take the visitors through spaces painted in Glagolitic script, explaining the layout and meaning of the meandering Glagolitic murals painted on the walls of the Faculty of Economics and Business in Osijek.
The starting point is the Library of the Faculty of Economics and Business where the works of Osijek writer and professor Jasna Horvat are exhibited. A prominent place in this review is occupied by the novel Az (Naklada Ljevak, 2009), for which the author received the Josip Juraj Strossmayer award (HAZU 2011). In addition to the novel Az Az, other novels and works inspired by the Glagolitic alphabet are exhibited: Alikvot (Algoritam, 2014), Antiatlas (Naklada Ljevak, 2014), Vilijun (Naklada Ljevak, 2016), Atanor (Naklada Ljevak, 2017), Ars Andizetum (Andizet, 2018.). Part of the exhibition are other authors’ writings about the Glagolitic script, as well as appropriate ceramic art in the form of Glagolitic letters from the Osijek Tomas Gallery.
The area of the Faculty of Economics and Business (after the Cathedral in Zagreb) is the second largest indoor area in the Republic of Croatia that is painted in Glagolitic script. In 2015, the Faculty of Economics and Business in Osijek became a public educational institution that teaches with its interior – the Glagolitic Hall and the Hall of Science – but also by mere staying in the those interiors. Visitors will then visit the Student Administration Office with the “good morning”, “people” and “efos” murals, then they will visit the murals in the halls of the Science Hall (“First” in the hall of J. J. Strossmayer, “Water” in the hall of Lavoslav Ružička, and “Number” in the hall of Vladmir Prelog) in order to dedicate the final part of the exhibition to the complex compositional murals of the Glagolitic Hall. There they will first of all look at the murals “first” and “m”, then “garden”, “number”, “fruit” and “water”, and then the computer sign “alkar”, which is available in the form of a mural on the EFOS website for free download and active use.
In addition to the Science Hall, the Faculty of Economics and Business in Osijek officially opened its newly renovated Glagolitic Hall. With its ground plan, it covers the Hall of Science, and with the playfulness of the Glagolitic ligatures that are placed on it, it creates completely new forms that the students colloquially call – meandering Glagolitic.
More in the text of Narcis VEKIĆ at the link Glas Slavonije
