Fourth Dimension

The Studio of Free Creativity 3D, founded in 1999 by prof. Juraj Bartusz, akad. soch., is one of the four visual art studios at the Faculty of Arts. The core focus of this “sculpture” studio are different interpretations of spatial art, but students are allowed to incorporate a wide range of media, including classic sculpture, painting, drawing, intermedia, video and action art. The results of the students’ research are thus very diverse, but their teachers’ guidance tends to steer them toward reflecting upon current social phenomena or subjective contemplation of their own existence. The students are given the opportunity to present their works not just on university premises, but also at group exhibitions at various gallery institutions and participate on diverse projects outside of academic circles (symposia, field trips). Their knowledge of current visual art is enriched by discussions with invited artists and art theoreticians.

The exhibition in the Youth Gallery is a selection of term works created over a period of approximately two years (until the current winter term of 2022/2023), supplemented with several records of outdoor interventions from open air school sessions that have been held around the region of Gemer in southeastern Slovakia. The works respond to various assignments or student-selected themes, such as environmental issues, social media communication barriers, alcoholism, the pandemic or the war in Ukraine. The exhibition is a curatorial probe into the studio’s current practice and not its complex presentation – it is a kind of a research of the students’ research.