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Creative women in the region | TOP 5
In today’s selection, we present five women who have left their mark in their respective professions and who are worth getting to know better.
Toyen (1902–1980)
Toyen was one of the most exciting figures of Czech surrealism, who co-founded the Czech Surrealist Group in Paris with her peers.
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Transience trapped behind glass
The history of still life, and in particular of the vanitas genre, goes back several centuries. The symbolic groups of objects displayed in these works expressed the transience and futility of life. The art of Sándor Körei puts this classical genre in a new context: his lyrical works preserve the
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Gen Y on top—solo exhibitions by Róbert Batykó and Zsófia Keresztes in the heart of Budapest
Among the latest exhibitions at the acb Gallery in Budapest are two contemporary Hungarian artists whose work is well worth discovering. It is an interesting world that these Generation Y artists lead us into: while Keresztes is known for his monumental mosaic sculptures that embody femininity, which come this time
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Dancing on eggshells | Maria Bartuszová in Tate Modern
The work of one of the best-known Slovak artists is on display at London’s legendary contemporary museum.
London’s Tate Modern is one of the world’s most important contemporary art centers, so it’s a remarkable feat to have a solo exhibition in the institution. Although Maria Bartuszová
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Brad Pitt makes debut as a sculptor in a Tampere museum
His fans might not have been aware of the sculptor ambitions of the actor/legend, but Brad Pitt’s works immediately made it to a museum. In the Art Museum in Tampere, Finland, Pitt exhibits with Nick Cave among others.
The latest exhibition of the Sara Hildén Art Museum in
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One day with Martin Žák in Prague
On one of the first days of summer this year, the rays of light shining down on Prague’s Old Town make for a beautiful sight. Only a few kilometers away, stands a large house next to the Klučov train station, which was once a classic Czech restaurant—but is
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Unique public sculptures | TOP 5
Walking through the popular streets of small and large cities in Eastern Europe, we can almost definitely stumble upon some kind of public sculpture or monument. These sculptures already belong to the spirit of the city, they almost merge into public spaces as its inhabitants. In our selection today, we
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Budapest, through the eyes of creative expats III | Simon Holpert
Although the Hungarian language has so many subtle linguistic nuances, there isn’t a truly powerful translation for the word expat. After all, we are not talking about visitors or tourists from abroad, but about people who live and work here, who know our country, and who have placed their
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Where’s the line between sculpture and architecture? Exhibition of Jiří Příhoda in Prague
Jiří Příhoda’s exhibition entitled VOID has opened at the Rudolfinum Gallery in Prague. The largest exhibition of the Czech sculptor so far offers installations on the borders of architecture and sculpture.
In Jiří Příhoda’s work, mapping of buildings and objects, situations between functional and autonomous have always played
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Kinetic totem distorts the space on a hilltop in Italy
A mysterious phenomenon distorts the landscape of the Abruzzo region in Southern Italy, in the province of L’Aquila. It is Edoardo Dionea Cicconi’s Kinetic Mirror sculpture, a reflective totem, that emerges amid the medieval setting of the fortress on the hilltop of Rocca Calascio. The site-specific installation is
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Sculptures wrapped in textiles by Magdalena Abakanowicz
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish sculptor and textile artist, revolutionized two disciplines at once, as she got into sculpturing through the technique of weaving. The most complete collection of her work can be found in the National Museum in Wrocław. The monographic exhibition at Pawilonie Czterech Kopuł presents this extremely rich collection,
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A guy from MOME who brings us the monumental ceramics of Slovakia
Mátyás Zagiba launched an Instagram account with the name LEN HLINA, or “Clay Only” to promote the unfairly forgotten building-decorating ceramics.
Mátyás Zagiba, a second-year ceramics student at MOME, came to Budapest from Jovice, a Slovakian village with barely eight hundred inhabitants. In March of this year, during the pandemic,
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Retreat to pre-natal existence
This time, the client of Russian sculptor and architect Gregory Orekhov was his own daughter. Agatha dreamed of having an outdoor playhouse where she could retreat from the world but found the existing forms unimaginative. Therefore, her artist dad turned to the egg shape, which he has adapted several times
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Periscope sculpture reflecting the ocean
Australian-born artist Joel Adler’s periscope-like sculpture reflects the surface of the ocean in a way we have never seen before. The permanent installation is located in the Vaucluse area of Sydney’s East Coast suburbs.
The sculpture, called Viewfinder, consists of a two-hundred-kilogram mirror and six tons of concrete
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Unique public sculptures | TOP 5
Walking through the popular streets of small and large cities in Eastern Europe, we can almost definitely stumble upon some kind of public sculpture or monument. These sculptures already belong to the spirit of the city, they almost merge into public spaces as its inhabitants. In our selection today, we
architecture
The city as a gallery | Čierne diery
If you thought Piešťany primarily known for its thermal spas could only give remedy to those suffering from rheumatic symptoms, you couldn’t be more wrong. Here’s a book that will prove that unjustly abandoned public statues also deserve the spotlight!
We have been keeping an eye on Čierne
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Bordering on the edge of virtuality and reality | Interview with Mónika Zsikla and Zsófia Keresztes
The concept of the Hungarian pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale profoundly reflects the challenges of our times, a situation in which digital presence becomes almost mandatory as the only possible way of human connection. The monumental mosaic sculptures of Zsófia Keresztes materialize a merge of virtuality and reality. The