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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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Alojz Rigele — Cardinal Pázmány

Alojz Rigele was one of the most popular and respected sculptors in Bratislava. In the early 20th century, he helped create the image of Slovakia’s capital and has remained a part of its genius loci until today, including its facades, churches, fountains, parks, memorials and cemeteries…

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András Cséfalvay — Light of the World

Nitra Gallery’s Virtual Gallery presents the work titled Light of the World (2016). Cséfalvay has created a story of three whales (a sperm whale, blue whale, killer whale) crucified next to each other. Each one bearing its own cross, its own crucification, its own burden, wounds, pain…

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Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová — Canteen & Ratchet

Anetta Mona Chişa and Lucia Tkáčová started to work together in 2000 during their studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. Over the course of two decades, the creative duo have managed to entrench themselves at both the national and international art scenes. The artists are perceived as distinctive representatives of postfeminism and engaged art who are no strangers to provocation…

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Anetta Mona Chişa and Lucia Tkáčová — Dialectics of Subjection # 1 /Holiday Video/

In 2000, already during their studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkáčová started their joint projects. Over a decade this creative tandem has established themselves successfully on the Slovak and international scene.

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Anton Jasusch — Mood Landscape

Anton Jasusch was the most important representative of “Košice modernism”[1] and one of the most important personalities of Slovak art of the first half of the 20th century. He created his original painting program that was based on expressionistic-Art Nouveau language, abstracting shapes, captivating play with colour and addressing basic ontological questions…

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Artwork of the month:
Ján Zelinka — In Search of the Essence (Badger)

The sculpture of the badger’s “internals” is a proud representative of a (post)humanising, ecological, experimental and also tradition-focused sculpture style. Ján Zelinka is, without any doubt, one of the most interesting sculptors of today. His work meaningfully connects material with nature and form…

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Bohdan Hostiňák — A Step into the Void

Oil on canvas titled A Step into the Void can be perceived continually among other works where the author blends together the landscape topic he has developed since the late nineties and the motive of animals and small insects, which appeared in his works right at the beginning of his career in the early nineties..

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Daniel Fischer — Painting in Landscape No. 15 and Painting in Landscape No. 17/11

Daniel Fischer is one of the key Slovak painters of the second half of the 20th century. He entered the art scene in the middle of 1970s (already formed by the so-called unofficial art scene) and created he own unique author program.

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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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Edita Spannerová — Reflected Light & Open Horizons & Dreaming

Nitra Gallery’s depository includes sixteen pieces of art by the Slovak painter Edita Spannerová.
The virtual gallery presents three of them…

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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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Emőke Vargová — Self-portrait

Emőke Vargová produces paintings, objects and installations. She uses unconventional materials, such as wax and parafine, toy plastic characters, different found objects, as well as textile, wood, paper or plastic transparent materials. Her artwork is characterized by the gentle and modest female traits, she draws the topics from everyday and personal life experiences.

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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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Ernest Špitz — Singer

The painting in Nitra Gallery’s collection belongs to a free cycle depicting classical music concerts or musicians playing classical instruments.

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Eugen Nevan — Sitting „In Spanish Costume”

Eugen Nevan is usually recognised as a part of Slovak interwar fine art modernism, also known as Generation 1909, specifically its so-called “Prague branch”.

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František Hübel — Citadel of Civilisation

Art and its history can sometimes easily and unfairly forget or not even notice. It has been the case of a painter, printmaker and illustrator František Hübel…

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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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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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Imrich Weiner-Kráľ — June (from the cycle The Wood)

Imrich Weiner-Kráľ is considered one of the most important representatives of the Slovak version of surrealism, the so-called “over-realism” [nadrealizmus in Slovak] in fine art. Many art theorists find the general notion of linking his work to surrealism problematic…

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Ivan Csudai — Animal

Ivan Csudai is one of the representatives of neo-expressionism in Slovakia – “new wild” painters of Slovak postmodernist painting, which as a group emerged in the second half of the 80s of 20th century. Spontaneity of expression and uncontrolled gesture in painting were the characteristic features for him and his generational colleagues…

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Ján Hala — With Lunch

Ján Hála was a Czech painter, drawer, illustrator and folklore documentarist who spent most of his life in Slovakia. His works are evergreens at Slovak (and Czech) auctions – alongside other representatives of Slovak modernism, like Benka and Fulla, his works receive some of the highest bids. He also illustrated…

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Ján Kekeli — Untitled

Ján Kekeli is a photographer who follows principles based on an intersection of documentary and art photography. His work focuses on landscape (projects like Landscape Images, Talking Stone, Visual Changes), but lately he has been working more and more on still lifes.

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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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Jarmila Mitríková & Dávid Demjanovič — The Evacuation of Slovak Elites

Two women and a man, dressed in traditional Slovak folk costumes, are standing in a field behind a village at the foot of majestic Slovak peaks, watching the take off of a spaceship (a conglomerate of various rocket modules), with a yellow Lamborghini happily parked next to it.

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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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Jozef Jankovič — Head VIII.

Hlava VIII./Head VIII. comes from the famous cycle of reliefs created by Jozef Jankovič during 1986-1997 and it is painted using the colourful epoxide paste into the negative form and named Hlavy/Heads. Jankovič shows in this cycle, as well as in all his artwork, the interest in the human figure, which is not represented as a compact unit, but rather split into fragments with the frequent motif of hands and legs…

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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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Július Jakoby — Family with Children

The painting titled Family with Children is a part of the author’s late period. Jakoby portrays three figures and thanks to the composition and the actual title of the painting we can safely assume the portrait is supposed to illustrate…

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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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