Thursday, November 21, 2013

Text by BANSKA ST A NICA contemporary:
In 2012, at the end of winter, the station was occupied for three working weeks by two friends, co-students, and young artists; Slavomíra Ondrušová (jewellery) and Bronislava Schraggeová (graphic design). The documents of their isolation spent together at the station, as well as that of their work, are fourteen pairs of small prints, mirrored and engraved into copper plates covered with asphalt. This visual diary is a unique document of place, and its life – of the expansive art project of which they became a part.

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Ostrov s vlastnou perifériou / An island with its own periphery
Slavomíra Ondrušová a Broňa Schraggeová
Jazyk: slovak/english
Text: Ján Pernecký
Design: Vojto Ruman, www.kniznydizajn
Translation/Preklad: Miroslav Pomichal
Náklad / Edition: 200
Strán/ Pages: 32
Published by/Vydavateľ: Štokovec, Space for Culture
With the support/ S podporou: Ministry of Culture Slovak Republic.
ISBN: 978-80-89587-06-3

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Monday, October 28, 2013

Second issue of X is out!

New issue of magazine X is out! You will find there 6 artist, let´s start with the young student Rastislav Podhorský, emerging artist Dita Kaplanová, music composer living in Germany Peter Machajdík and very famous Slovak artist Monogramist T.D (Dezider Tóth) from Slovakia, artistic duo from Czech Republic Jiří Franta and David Bohm,  and  Nikolaus Gansterer from Austria! Essay titled The Labor of Indeterminacies from Karin Harrasser is about thinking and the process of creating. Daniel Matej wrote the text about Open Scores, which relates to the work of Peter Machajdík and othercomposers and artists. Wish you an interesting reading!
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For more information please follow the link: www.casopix.blogspot.com

Cover

Theoretical part

Karin Harrasser. The Labor of Indeterminacies

Jiří Franta and David Böhm

Jiří Franta and David Böhm

Jiří Franta and David Böhm

Nikolaus Gansterer

Dita Kaplanová

Peter Machajdík
Peter Machajdík

Peter Machajdík

Monogramist T.D

Monogramist T.D


Rastislav Podhorský

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Enammeling Sympozium in Frýdlant/CZ, July 2013












Foto: Slavomir Dorda, Iva Šlesingerová and Slavomíra Ondrušová
A short video from the sympozium

Exhibition in Nitrianska Galéria, Sláva Milanovi! Milan Sláve!!, August-September 2013

Authors: Slavomíra Ondrušová, Milan Vagač
Curator: Alexandra Niczová 
Opening of the Exhibition: 15. 8. 2013  at 5pm
Exhibition through: 22. 9. 2013
Venue: Salón Nitrianskej galérie
Župné námestie, Nitra 
The exhibition is the presentation of artworks by two young authors Slavomíra Ondrušová and Milan Vagač, the graduates of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. Although each of them primarily works with a different medium they have a common interest: drawing. They have started a journal called X, a quaterly of contemporary drawing.
They prepared the first exhibition project entitled “Sláva to Milan! Milan to Sláva!!“ for the Saloon of the Nitra Gallery. As the title suggests it is a playful project and the results are unclear until the very last moment, and sometimes they are surprising. The concept of the project is the response of one of the artists to the impulse made by a drawing of the other. The authors exchanged their drawings in the format A4 for the period of several weeks while the drawings played the role of some “user manual”. The manual was the impulse for the creation of the artwork. The role of each author was to respond to the drawing of the other and transform it into another medium that was going to be its final accomplishment. The very important moment of the project is the motive of creative collaboration, the confrontation with the thinking of the other.
The project foregrounds the questions of how to read a drawing and how to interpret it. The authors are interested in the relationship between a drawing and its spatial or other rendering. The drawing in the A4 format plays the role of a preparation sketch (the preparation drawing or the proposal as an important part of the final work) and provides the unlimited scope for its further rendering and a way to “accomplish“ it. Both Ondrušová and Vagač work with the traditional role of a drawing as a preparation sketch when the sketch creates only a certain stage to create the work. The drawing in such case does not play the role of a “mere“ background but it is the challenge for the creative response.
The preparation drawing and the final artwork are equally situated one next to another. The spectator has the opportunity to see the “impulse“ and the following “response“ such as the drawing of vertical lines by Milan Vagač that Ondrušová responded to by creating a piece of jewellery with the similar motive, the drawing composed of a circular neclace (Ondrušová) responded to by Vagač by a series of photographs capturing circular openings, fragments, parts of wholes that he meets when he commutes from Pezinok to Bratislava on a day to day basis, a series of photographs that are situated in the shape of a necklace.
 
Slavomíra Ondrušová (1985) in 2012 finished the master’s study programme in the studio SMLXL Metal and Jewellery lead by professor Karol Weisslechner where she is a doctoral student currently. Her works include jewellery and drawing. She examines the relationships between drawing and space and what role the drawing plays in a creative process. “What is going to happen if I work with silver the same way I work with a sheet of paper, or with wire the same way I work with a pencil?“
Milan Vagač (1987) finished his master’s degree studies in 2012 in the studio ±XXI lead by professor Daniel Fischer. His works include painting, drawing and other media. His painting is affected by experimentation with other media such as photography and digital media (the visuality of photographic media tries to reinscribe by the tools of a painter) he tries to disrupt the structures and “come out primarily from the painterly background and to confront them with other non painterly media.“