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Having profited of the short vacation and the reduced distance that separates the two European capitals, I took a trip to the neighbor country Slovakia and visited its capital: Bratislava, discovering its ever growing art scene! Due to the short duration of my stay, I only visited the places within a walking distance from the city center. Bellow you have the result of that:

1. Diversity Required/ Slovak National Gallery: “The exhibition on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the founding of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava is based on the confrontation of the historical view of the first academy of arts in Slovakia with a critical curatorial perspective of its contemporary form as a creative laboratory. Significant figures from several generations of artists and art theoreticians work at the Academy today. In addition, since 1990 the school has increasingly opened itself to the international art world. Instruction takes place in studios of painting, sculpture, graphic art, design, textiles, photography, new media and restoration.” (more on the website: http://www.sng.sk/en/uvod/vystavy/aktualne/rozmanitost-nutna-vsvu-model-2014) April 15- June 1, 2014

The Space-Time Chart, a 3D model transcription of factual data related to the Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava history and structure. Each wooden brick contains the name of an actual graduate, and is part of a greater whole representing the development of the academy.

2.TEXTILE > TEXTILE >> TEXTILE exhibition of the students from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava :”The exhibition of the Department of Textile Production called TEXTILE > TEXTILE >> TEXTILE, within which the medium of textile, in the entire spectre of its meanings and possibilities of processing, interconnects three with their focus substantially different studios of Textile Design, Clothes Design and Textile Production in its space.The actual direction, specifics of concepts of individual studios and individual management of teachers will be communicated through the best quality student outputs. The selection of works focuses on experimental works, either from the aspect of applied technology or unconventional approach to textile material. There are also presented works reflecting domestic tradition of textile production, which apply knowledge to new materials, forms and connections. The ambition of the joint departmental exhibition is to present to the public the most up-to-date works created by the most modern digital technologies that the department has recently acquired.” (from the website of the university:http://www.vsvu.sk/ ) / 27 May – 29 June 2014; Gallery Medium, Hviezdoslavovo square 18, Bratislava

TEXTILE > TEXTILE >> TEXTILE/Department of textile production/ curator:Mgr. Katarína Hubová

3. “No Comment” exhibition at OPEN Gallery: presents photographs from the 2013 Slovakian Annual Journalist Award: “The lay and professional public can see this year’s winning and nominated photographs and caricatures at the “No Comment” exhibition at the Open Gallery in Bratislava. The exhibition features more than 100 photographs and caricatures published in Slovak periodic press as commentary of last year’s important political and social events.” (from http://www.novinarskacena.sk/); 13.05-10.06.2014

Annual Journalist Award 2013

4. Pálffy Palace (Bratislava City Gallery) installation Passage by Matej Krén: “consisting of almost 15,000 books, which, together with mirrors, create an illusion of endless space and infinity of human knowledge. The artist donated the installation to the City Gallery of Bratislava in 2004″ (from the website: http://www.gmb.sk/en/exhibition/detail/stories-and-phenomena-slovak-fine-art-of-the-20th-century-ii)

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Van Gogh reproductions on a building next to St. Martin’s Cathedral

installation Passage by Matej Krén

Wall paintings in the city

5. Milan Dobeš Museum: “The museum was established thanks to volunteers and art connoisseurs as well as private collections.Exhibition activities focus particularly on Constructivist and Neo- constructivist tendencies in visual arts.” (from the museum website: http://www.milandobes.sk/)

“Milan Dobeš born on July 29, 1929 in Přerov He studied at the Academy of Fine Art and Desgn in Bratislava with Professors Ladislav Čemický, Bedrich Hoffstädter and at the Department of Landscape Painting with Professor Dezider Milly. Since 1960 he has been producing visual-kinetic and luminous-kinetic object. Wrote manifestos on Light and Movement and on Dynamic Constructivism. Took part in major exhibitions of optic and kinetic art in Slovakia and abroad.” -from the website: http://www.milandobes.sk/index.php?page=about

“Milan Dobes, born 29th July 1929 in Prerov Moravia. His work was already gaining international recognition in the late fifties and early sixties. t that time he re-evalueted his attitudes towards modern art from a decade earlier in much the same way that mainstream artistic trends were moving from impressionism towards abstraction.After those “Lehr – und – Wanderjahre” as Goethe would put it, Dobes developed into a leading figure in the completely new and most up-to-date field of kinetic light and optical art. In both drawings and paintings he explored the use of optical illusions created by particular geometrical constructions. As for his art-objects, along with some well-known colleagues on the world scene, he was one of those to make use of motion and changing lights as a new aesthetic medium in creative art.” from the website:http://www.milandobes.sk/index.php?page=permanent

“The actual composition is, of course, always fundamental point. Within the Czechoslovak environment of that period he took part in key exhibitions, especially the legendary “New Sensitivity” (Nova citlivost) in 1968. Political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the 1960′s enabled him to developed contacts around the world, so he was invited to the most significant exhibitions including “Documenta 4″ in Kassel in 1968. In 1971 he also succeeded in touring with the American Wind Symphony Orchestra in the U.S.A. where he accompanied new nusical compositions with his kinetic light program. The reon of political repression in the seventies and eights of course eventually excluded him completely from international events, but Dobes remained faithful to his own objectives, even if he had to achieve most of them in the form of chamber works and graphic prints.” from the website: http://www.milandobes.sk/index.php?page=permanent

“At the end of the sixties he was already one of the ground-breaking artists in Czechoslovakia to use screen printing because it corresponded perfectly with the impersonal design of those geometrical building blocks with which he was working consistently. Gradually he was unraveling a whole range of artistic problems in constructions, drawings, collages and prints. Looking at the transformations in the artist’s work, 1983 and 1984 were a waterrshed in formulating his new program which he characterized in the title of his manifesto “Dynamic Constructivism”.He was aware that the majority of contemporary geometrical creative art from around the world, which had been generally described as constructivist or neo-constructivist, was the product of juxtaposition of statically counterpoised geometrical components, usually squares and circles, Dobes wanted to remain in the world of geometry, but benefiting from his experiments with the artistic effects of motion, he wanted to introduced dynamics into the realm of geometrical art which was particularly unusual.” from the website: http://www.milandobes.sk/index.php?page=permanent

“From then onwards he was not only making new types of art-objects (for example those taking their inspiration from the reflective surface of metal foil), but also his graphic art took on a new appearance. In this he increasingly developed the used of segments of circles both of varying width and radius and of varying length and color. Structure was still present but, de facto, it was hidden behind the arrangement of individual components. It contributed to the dynamic effect to each compoosition and thus brought a new dimension to the international school of geometrical art.” from the website: http://www.milandobes.sk/index.php?page=permanent

Juraj Oprsal “Cubus”

6. SNG Non-Permanent Exposition Slovak National Gallery: “During the reconstruction of the Slovak National Gallery building in Bratislava, the temporary exposition of the SNG’s historical collections (Gothic & Baroque) will provide visitors with access to the most important artifacts of the art of the 14th-18th centuries.The intent of this permanent/non-permanent exposition is to offer an untraditional view of works of art that are frequently presented chronologically; in this case, the curators have chosen an approach that differs from linear, stylistic or art-geographical classifications. ” (more on the website: http://www.sng.sk/en/uvod/vystavy/aktualne/nestala-expozicia-sng)

A view on Bratislava’s art scene Having profited of the short vacation and the reduced distance that separates the two European capitals, I took a trip to the neighbor country Slovakia and visited its capital: Bratislava, discovering its ever growing art scene!

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