The main activities of the project are the research and decomposition of phenomena and themes that undermine trust. A collection of 5 large-format original paintings by artist Lukáš Matejka – portraits (160 x 100 cm) will be created. The portraits are based on real people – representatives of the church, finance, judiciary, police and medicine. An important skeleton of the emerging works is also the work with audio – interviews – monologues – the destruction of voices of trust/distrust. The author creates an acoustic collage with people who. who have lost or are losing trust. An equal part of the exhibited paintings will be this created sound environment (recordings, editing, post-processing). The viewer – visitor of the newly emerging FORMAAT Gallery in Trencin will thus find himself in a gallery with a complex authorial painting-acoustic collection Crisis of Trust, which will affect him visually and acoustically.

The aim and contribution of the project is to realize a visual reflection/authorial exhibition referring to the growing tendency of mistrust in society, which impacts directly or indirectly on each of us. The target audience of the exhibition is mainly the general public, students and the professional – artistic community.

Title of the exhibition: Lukáš Matejka – CRISIS OF TRUST

Opening date: 1 December 2022 at 19:00, Thursday

Duration of the exhibition: 1 December 2022 – 30 December 2022

Curator: Anton Šulík

Location: FOR MAAT GALLERY, Železničná 3, Trenčín

Supported by the Art Support Fund from public funds in the form of a scholarship.

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The site-specific performance, which is a combination of dance, theatre, music and lighting design, brings a symbolic, unique and unrepeatable farewell to the work of Ľ. Fulla. Interactive forms and a vjing projection will take place in both the outdoor and indoor spaces of the GĽF.

Concept: Radoslav Piovarči, Andrea Kapráliková / Interpreters: Giorgia Belotti, Lucia Bielik, Paulína Šmatláková, Michaela Šeligová, Radoslav Piovarči / Music: Andrej Jurkovič / Lighting design: Ján Čief / Costumes: Gabriela Čechová / Projection: Lukáš Matejka in collaboration with Viktor Vilkovský, Martina Matejková and Robert Roth (audio)

19 February 2022 / 18:00 Ľudovít Fulla Gallery / Admission: 3 €, students, seniors, disabled: 2 €

The programme is supported from public funds by the Art Support Fund and is produced in collaboration with the Koloman Sokol Society.

Photos. Video: Peter ERZVO Zvonár.

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It processes the phenomenon of the virtually perceived world – the real one, by using interactive storytelling, comprehending the ideology of the place through the language of contemporary art, semiotics and social paradigms. The project uncovers motives of a perceiving individual subject – as a mythical entity in a collective situation, and dramatically re/constructs possible and expectable situations on which it uncovers local social-historical relations of the place as well as current and speculative conditions of the existence of the non/place, modern rituals and infra/structures, in which the subject finds itself at the given moment.

Simply said, it is a paraphrase of a computer game, an open world story, where the spectator becomes the player in the real world, the structure and universal significance of which he/she process through a filter of current artistic and cultural considerations offering it to new experiences, movement, discovery of new senses, reflections and connectivity of networks around us. The project is focused on an expert or an amateur spectator, children, students or teachers. The aim is to create and introduce an interdisciplinary play, as a universally transferable and complete installation lasting several hours that highlights the interaction between the spectator and the environment (passive as well as active).

The premiere of the project:

07/05/2021 | Friday | 12:00 – 21:00 | Trenčín | surroundings of the Miloš Alexander Bazovský Gallery, Palackého 27

+ online stream at www.trakt.sk/re-index

More information will be added.

The project was funded by Slovak Arts Council from public resources. The project was supported by a grant for cultural events in the city of Trenčín. Thank you.

Translation: Karin Mikossiová

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Videoart/mapping projections entitled KL!KR! (CL!CR!, translator´s note) react to and work with the theme of climate change. Each one of us imagines something different under the notion of climate crisis. Art research carried out by Mgr. art. Lukáš Matejka, ArtD. and a team of contemporary artists relies on collecting oral-personal interpretations of the climate crisis from a wider spectrum of people (children, youth, adults, pensioners) also reaching out to different social classes. These “notes” define some kind of a subject matter or sub-themes for the micro artworks of the project.

Following this is searching for locations which define the places for the implementation of projections intervening in the public space. The new map (Trenčín and surroundings) shows locations where the three time-limited site-specific performances will take place for 3 nights. In total, the project will introduce 9 independent visual artworks to the public. Each artwork will be documented in detail followed by postprocess/ post-production.

The final stages are defined by a thorough selection of presentable photographs for an exhibition in a gallery space. Following the exhibition is a creation of an expanded online concept – in text (professional text) and in picture (photographs, photo documentation, video) on a website.

“The project follows and processes various local and personal views/ attitudes/ understandings/ misunderstandings/ conspiracies into artworks within an important global issue.”

The realization of the project was funded from public resources in the form of a scholarship by the Slovak Arts Council. The implementation of the project was financially supported by the city of Trenčín – youth program. More information will be added.

Translation: Karin Mikossiová

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To be included in the network, the work of art must meet the condition of employing a text. The text serves as a password unlocking the next artwork/ author. To move to another artwork, spectators need to type out the text included in the artwork into the chosen window on the web. The author may employ the text in any manner without a restraint on the medium, however it must be readable for the visitor of this network. The text may become the main theme of the artwork but that does not mean it must be its only and main element. The author creates the text him/herself. The selection criteria:

• quality of the artwork
• the way the text is set in the context of the online space
• complying with the technical conditions to fulfill the function of the project

The artworks of any genre and form (visual, audiovisual, audio, literary, painting, performance, choreography, recording, …) reacting to the particularities of the internet space or the current social issues or self-representation are welcome. The artworks created solely for the exhibition project as well as works of art of older date are welcome. The concept of the exhibition project is not otherwise limited by a theme.

You can visit the gallery on the following URL link:

dual.trakt.sk

The project is of an independent and non-commercial character.

DUAL was supported by the city of Trenčín under the Creative platform project. Thank you.

Translation: Karin Mikossiová

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November 19, 2019, 17:00, M. A. Bazovský Gallery, Trenčín

“Tasting V” consists of a short event, a classic wine tasting in the gallery space. It is a public evaluation of wine made available to the general public. Appropriation or appropriation of the event – wine tasting as an artistic activity. The staged event reconstructs real, live tasting in real time and space and in direct interaction with visitors to the Trenčín M. A. Bazovský Gallery.

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The condition that a work must meet for networking is working with text. The text serves as a password for moving to the next part / author. In order for the viewer to move to the next part, he must describe the text from the work to the selected line on the web. The way the author processes this text is not restricted to the media, but must be legible to a visitor to this network. The text may also be the main theme of a work, but it is not a condition of being the sole and principal expression element. The author creates the text himself. The selection criterion is:

the quality of the work
the form of setting into the context of the online space
compliance with the technical requirements for the fulfillment of the project function

We welcome works of every genre and form (visual, audiovisual, audio, literary, painting, performance, choreography, recording, …) responding to the specifics of the Internet environment or current social themes or self-presentation. Welcome works are created directly for the exhibition project, but may also be an older work. The concept of an exhibition project is not otherwise thematically limited.

The gallery can be found at the link URL: dual.trakt.sk

The project has an independent and non-commercial character.

The project was sponsored by the Slovak Arts Council.

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The exhibition from the collection fund of Miloš Alexander Bazovský Gallery in Ternčín and the selection of contemporary art represents a traditional as well as modern approach to Slovak folklore. As the title of the exhibition suggests, the main theme of the selected works is a woman, a woman as a folk muse, as a mediator of contact with nature and culture, but also as an ethnological theme of recordings of various costumes, embroidery and crochet laces. These elements were also displayed in works by various artistic approaches, in different artistic styles, techniques, formats and genres, both directly and indirectly. The exhibition presents a selection of works by 54 Slovak authors and more than 80 works of art from the beginning of the formation of Slovak modern to the present, found in the depository of the gallery, as well as borrowed from the well known Slovak authors.

Themes of folklore – depiction of folk costumes, folk festivals, architecture, rural environment, as well as the use of individual elements of folk art – embroidery, laces, folk ornament … – appear in Slovak art in every season. Inspiration of folk traditions and handicraft resonates in flat (depicting folk costumes, village festivities and the environment, as well as inspiration by traditional women’s works) as well as in spatial works (using traditional craftsmanship – especially wood carving, basketry, tinkering, lace making, ceramics). As the theme of folklore are very wide, we have chosen to focus only on the woman in folklore – and so on the reference to traditional women’s work, but also to the woman as such. One, but not the only one, feature of selected works is respect for traditional manual work, especially by embodying the relation to the textile material, which women used for sewing work and representative clothing and home textiles, followed by embroidery or lace decorations. Traditional folk clothing, as well as today’s folklore, combines the old traditions with new practices or patterns, which influence one another. Particularly the decorations for clothing is characterized by the symbiosis of craftsmanship with the needs and traditional taste of broad public.  It was precisely the individual expressions of gifted woman who themselves embellished their embroideries and lace, which diversified the folk costumes. In the works, however, the position of women in the society of the rural environment is also described as girls, brides, women – wives, mothers, mother in laws, grandmoms, hosts… and the most importantly, women as a folk muse.

The woman as a muse

As the title itself suggests, the main theme of selected works is a woman as a mediator of contact with nature and culture, as a woman – a goddess, a muse, a mystical being, in her natural beauty, but also a tribute to the folk customs and traditions – textiles, folk costumes, embroidery and lace making. The exhibition aims to highlight the female element in the folkloric environment – to pay tribute to a woman as a muse, girl becoming a woman, a bride, a wife, a mother, a hostess, to honor her handmade work (costumes, lace, embroidery or ornament) and her true value. The selection of the works presents a collection of classical traditional themes, mostly conceived as ethnological records of costumes and folklore environments, as well as modernist and contemporary tendencies in the fine arts. A unique collection of almost all art forms, including the modern design of AHA Slovakia, show the woman and “womanhood” in Slovak folklore in a new light and new contexts. In this section, TRAKT presented the video documentation of the project Folklore graffiti.

Becoming A Woman

In the fine arts, young girls were depicted mostly pointing to traditional folk clothing and their realistic portrayal.
More interesting, and even more popular in GMAB’s collection fund, were female – brides and mothers.There can be found also the motives from women’s leisure time or from work responsibilities. The well-known Slovak folk song, which became the leitmotif of the concept of the exhibition, belongs to the typical small musical form of Slovak folklore – a cheerful, rhythmical song, the subject of which is the tradition of put clothes on the young bride, which was very important at that point of time. The amount and the richness of the clothing was a sign that the future wife is a right choice and meant a certain prestige. To avoid the gossiping, poor families had to get into debt.

„To take a good care of the bride in the 1950s meant to purchase of 15 dresses, 27 sleeves for working day, 26 sleeves for special occasions, of which 6 were not embroidered especially for mourning and big holidays, 7 blueprint  skirt and 10 red folded skirts, 12 canopied aprons, 1 blueprint apron for mourning, 15 furriers, 2 fur coats for both workdays and holidays, 12 hats, 12 scarfs, 2 coats, sweater, 3 pairs of  high felt boots, 2 pairs of high velvet trousers and 3 pairs of boots. In addition to the garment, the bride got: 3 polky ???, 2-3 tablecloths, 4 towels, 1 duvets and 6 featherbeds, 6 pillows and 20 chairs, and finally 4 bed sheets. ” (from the text to the exhibition of folk costumes, Horehron Museum in Detva, 2015)

A woman as an object of ethnological exploration in traditional culture has never been at the centre of attention. She has always been associated with the family as the basis of the so called “patriarchal family” of the rural society. In traditional culture, however, a woman was linked to the large number of different orders and prohibitions.
Already in youth, for instance the first menstruation was related to various ritual practices aiming the shorten its duration. However, the transformation of a girl into a woman did not happen that day, but only after the symbolic change of the head wreath to the hat bonnet cap.

„Virginity is reflected in our culture by wedding ceremonies in the symbolic party, wedding wreath.
The symbolic defloration of the young woman by taking the head wreath off and putting the hat bonnet cap on is the most important act in the life of a woman in traditional culture. However, even as a wife, a woman is considered to be the least important in a given hierarchy. However, the poor status was only temporary, the situation changed with the first childbirth, when she became a member of the respected women – mothers.“ (K. Beňová: A woman in the traditional culture of Slovakia: menstruation, virginity, motherhood (focusing on taboo), Department of Ethnology and Musicology, FF UKF v Nitre).

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