Signal

Conceptual and postconceptual tendencies in Slovak visual art

19. April 2019. – 23. June
MegnyitóOpening: April 18, 2019, 6:00 pm
MegnyitjaRemarks by: Katarína Bajcurová
KurátorCurator: Vladimír Beskid
The exhibition introduces one of the crucial tendencies present in modern and contemporary Slovak art. It will focus on the origination of and the developments in Conceptual and Post-Conceptual Art from the horizon of the past fifty years in Slovakia, i.e. from the alternative unofficial scene of the 1960s as far as to the legal artistic platform after 1989.

The works by two generations of artists, such as Peter Bartos, Cyril Blazo, Stano Filko, Petra Feriancová, Viktor Freso, Jozef Jankovic, Aneta Mona Chisa – Lucia Tkácová, Martin Kochan, Július Koller, Roman Ondak, Boris Ondreicka, Monogrammist D. T., Rudo Sikora, Pavla Sceranková, Peter Rónai and Jaro Varga, will acquaint with the individual forms of conceptual artistic morphology as it was moulded by the transforming, new aesthetic criteria with their intrinsic codes.

Exhibiting artists: Blazej Baláz, Cyril Blazo, Stano Filko, Petra Feriancová, Viktor Freso, Jozef Jankovic, Michal Kern, Martin Kochan, Július Koller, Marek Kvetan, Ján Mancuska, Roman Ondak, Monogramista T.D , Rudolf Sikora, Pavla Sceranková, Péter Rónai, Jaro Varga