Printmaking
Adolf Born — Windows
Adolf Born was a Czech painter, drawer, illustrator, animator, caricaturist, occasional photographer and costume designer. He has become famous mostly thanks to his work on an animated TV series called Max and Sally.
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Erik Binder — Woodoo Čičmoney
he Woodoo Čičmany painting is a part of the Nitra Gallery’s collection and belongs to a series of paintings of the same name. Erik Binder is one of a very few artists in Slovakia who have adopted the technique of spray paint on canvas which has its roots in graffiti and street art…
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Igor Benca — Searchers in the Land of the Missing VI
The graphic artist Igor Benca created a collection of graphic prints as a part of the representative bibliophilic publication that was published by the Nitra Gallery under the title The Searchers in the Land of the Missing in 1995.
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Plastic arts
Július Bartfay — The Dancer
The intimacy of Bartfay´s work ´The Dancer´ urges to think about the motif that insipired the artist to create this artwork. The theme was the immortal poem ´The song of songs´.
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Juraj Bartusz — Osum Twelve
The action painting titled Osum Twelve was created in Nitra’s Old Theatre on May 27th, 2004 as a part of the OSUM 12 event which was a part of a series of educational evenings about fine art that presented important personalities of the Slovak and Czech art scene. The evenings were organised by artists and teachers Miroslav Nicz and Jaroslav Košš.
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Karol Baron — Portrait of Vratislav Effenberger
The figural artwork by Karol Baron represents a unique contribution within the framework of the development of the neo-surrealistic traditions enriched by the specific black humour, absurd metamorphosis of shapes and the drastic grotesque.
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Klára Bočkayová — From the cycle Angel’s paintings I.
The painting ´Angelic images´ belongs to a series of canvasses with author´s typical style originated by overprinting the embroidery of an angel through frottage. Painting, dominated by the layering and overlapping of the cherubic motifs is specific for its structure, formed while using two types of material – oil stick and acrylic painting.
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Photography and other media
Marko Blažo — Bed (from the cycle 3D/4D)
The object Bed from the cycle 3D/4D is constructed from the bed frame. The part designed for lying in is covered by a photography. In one part of the image we can observe a descending staircase. It creates an illusion of depth and space and we have a dizzy feeling when looking down.
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Martin Benka — From Lanžhot
The language and expression of the early painting From Lanžhot are still marked by Kalvoda’s impressionism, but also by contemporary Art Nouveau and decorativism. The composition of the plain landscape motif is horizontally divided into two parts…
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Martin Benka — In the Field — Orava
The intimate format of the work depicts Benka’s mythologised and idealised mountainous Slovak landscape and its people. In the Field – Orava carries signs of “Benka’s signature plein air painting”. The story the picture tells is presented in suggested stripes…
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Milan Bočkay — The Square in the Space
Milan Bočkay belongs to the important representatives of the Slovak art of the second half of the 20th century and his work is based on the complex research of the painter´s illusion. From 1978 he uses the historically oldest artistic technique trompe l´oeil (from French – optical illusion).
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Miloš Alexander Bazovský — The Curve
The small scale artwork ´The Curve´ by M.A. Bazovský (oil on hardboard, 1949) captures the scenery of the countryside in Orava region (northern Slovakia) in which the artist found the inspiration for his artistic expression.
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Oľga Bartošíková — Still Life with Apples & Still Life with Plums and a Kettle
Oľga Bartošíková’s work now stretches over a seventy-year period and records an unusual number of approaches and the artist’s never-ending search for a unique expression style that responds to trends at the current domestic and worldwide art scenes.
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Photography and other media
Peter Barényi — Chimes
The Chimes installation reflects on the fatal disease of the artist’s mother. Chimes is a musical object made of small personal things that belonged to the artist’s mother – jewellery beads (he gave her some of them when he was little), knitting needles (she used them to make some of his clothes), baking moulds (they baked together using these) – objects that remind him of her and his childhood.
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Drawing
Peter Bartoš — ZOO — a Continuous Landscape Concept
The work ZOO –a Continuous Landscape Concept (ZOO – pokračujúci koncept krajiny) belongs to the longtime topographical cycles. The theme of Bratislava Zoological Garden is familiar and close to the artist because he worked there for a number of years.
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Robert Bielik — Boy with Sculls
Robert Bielik emerged on the Slovak art scene in the 1990s when painting as an artistic form was marginalized and the interest of artists and theoreticians switched to the trendy new media such as installation, video, performance and so on. In spite of that he decided to work with classical, narrative, figurative and realistic oil painting, following his own rules not considering current tendencies or preferences.
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Plastic arts
Štefan Belohradský — House on a Pole
The House on a Pole is a subtle and yet representative work by Štefan Belohradský. The basic principle of this object is the search for its shape that does not reflect on anything, does not refer to anything. He uses the principles of seriality, following the doctrines of ISMs (neoplasticism, constructivism, supermatism, purism, conceptualism) and geometry.
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Viera Bombová — Figures
Viera Bombová is known and valued for her illustrations of children’s books. She has managed to deliver the beauties of “exotic” countries and peoples (e.g. Polynesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Native Americans) even to children in Slovakia.
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