Printmaking
Edita Ambrušová — A Day by the Atlantic II.
The print titled A Day by the Atlantic II. is one of the more intimate pieces created by Slovak painter and illustrator Edita Ambrušová. The black and white world of lithography offers a surrealistic visual experience, perhaps a memory of the artist’s view and experience of the sea.
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Printmaking
Eduard Antal — Composition IV. & V.
Eduard Antal was an important representative of Slovak geometric abstract art. His work focused mostly on painting, printmaking, graphic design and monumental decorative elements in architecture.
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Printmaking
Gejza Angyal — Square in Kremnica
Gejza Angyal used luministic lightning style in his paintings which is typical for the Nagybánya artists’ colony and high profile artists such as Miháli Munkácsy, István Réti and others. There are also traces of the late 19th century French art in his work.
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Painting
Janko Alexy — Woman of Kozárovce
Janko Alexy was a painter, writer, publicist and cultural life enthusiast. He is one of the founding fathers of Slovak Modernism. He was very active at both the cultural and the social scenes. For example, after the Second World War, he played an important role in the preservation and restoration of Bratislava Castle.
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Painting
Jaroslav Augusta — Feeding Horses
The small painting on paper depicts two men dressed in folk costumes (shepherds or farmers) at a horse water trough. One of them is leaning on a staff which can also be a folk musical instrument (a pipe, horn or a trembita). The other one, seemingly older, is leaning on a smaller staff (a pickaxe), smoking a pipe.
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Drawing
Milan Adamčiak — >zwanzig nach< könig für jazzquartett & m.p.m.per orchestra da camera
Milan Adamčiak was a unique solitary character, a legend, an experimenter, a musicologist, a composer and a key figure of Slovak multimedia art.
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Drawing
Milan Adamčiak — Reticolo I° per dieci strumenti a piacere
The musicologist, cellist and a tireless experimenter Milan Adamčiak was the first one in Slovakia in the 1960s to deliberately dedicate himself to the exploring the overlapping field of intermedia arts – the profound connectionthat has been forged through the medium of music and fine art.
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Photography and other media
Peter Ančic — Husák’s Generation
Those born in the former Czechoslovak Socialist Republic between the years 1972 and 1982 are often referred to as “Husák’s Children”. In the normalisation period, with Gustáv Husák as President since 1975, the Communist Party’s policy to support young families resulted in a baby boom – a strong population wave, during which the number of children that had been born was higher than the number of inhabitants who had died.
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