usa - Petra Stefankova

My name in prestigious libraries

7. November 2021 / articles, artium-museum, books, conferences, famous-libraries, libraries, london, publications, royal-society, thersaorg, ual, united-kingdom, university-of-the-arts, usa

I have discovered my name in articles and books at some of the famous libraries in the United Kingdom, the USA and Spain. Our book titled Don’t take my dreams from me is available from the library of the Royal Society of Arts in London. Some of my articles published in the US and the UK are available to students and teachers of the prestigious art school, the University of the Arts London. My conference paper, which was written for Graphite 2007, the computer graphics conference in Australia, was published by the famous Association of Computer Machinery in the USA. And I already mentioned earlier on this blog, that my profile and artworks have been published in a book by Jack Harris and Steven Withrow in the UK. This book has been translated into the Spanish language and it is available from the library of the famous Artium museum.

Objavila som svoje meno v článkoch a knihách v niektorých zo slávnych knižníc v Anglicku, v USA a v Španielsku. Naša kniha Neberte mi sny je k dispozícii v knižnici Kráľovskej spoločnosti umení v Londýne. Niektoré moje články publikované v USA a v Anglicku sú k dispozícii študentom a učiteľom prestížnej umeleckej školy University of the Arts London. Môj konferenčný príspevok, ktorý som napísala pre Graphite 2007, konferenciu počítačovej grafiky v Austrálii, bol publikovaný slávnou Asociáciou pre počítačové stroje v USA. A už som spomenula skôr na tomto blogu, že môj profil a diela boli publikované v knihe Jacka Harrisa a Stevena Withrowa v Anglicku. Táto kniha bola preložená do španielčiny a je umiestnená v knižnici slávneho múzea Artium.

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Word cultures reflected in my paintings

24. October 2021 / aborigines, australia, aztecs, comics, drawing, england, fine-art, france, germany, graffiti, painting, pop-art, spain, usa

My solo show at the Bratislava Castle gallery in August 2021 had the title Traveller. I chose this name because I have visited many countries with my work – the USA, the UK, Germany, Portugal, France, Australia, Austria, Czech Republic or Italy. I also visited more countries for leisure and vacation – Greece, Tunisia, Spain, Croatia. Different cultures left their marks on my visual thinking. For example, my decorative drawn structures are close to the drawings and paintings by the native Australian inhabitants, Aboriginals. Bold, but simplified faces with eyes and characters remind Aztecan symbols. Flat aesthetics of graphic design in painting is known from the works of the American fine artists of the Pop Art movement. The draw-painting technique refers to Street Art, Graffiti, or the Lowbrow movement, but also comics culture, which has a strong hub in the USA. Human profiles and silhouettes of people drawn using a black outline may suggest a context with the historic roots of Egyptian art. Surrealism and cubism – movements, that I base my work on as well, have their origin in Europe – in France and Spain. I was also strongly influenced by the Slovakian fine art and illustration culture because that is where I was born.

Moja samostatná výstava na Bratislavskom hrade v auguste 2021 mala názov Cestovateľka. Zvolila som si toto pomenovanie, pretože som navštívila so svojou prácou mnohé krajiny – USA, Veľkú Britániu, Nemecko, Portugalsko, Francúzsko, Austráliu, Rakúsko, Česko či Taliansko. Samozrejme, v rámci mojich mimopracovných dovoleniek tých navštívených krajín bolo ešte o niečo viac – Grécko, Tunisko, Španielsko, alebo Chorvátsko. Rozličné kultúry zanechali stopy v mojom vizuálnom myslení. Napríklad dekoratívna drobnokresba a štruktúra má blízko ku kresbám a maľbám pôvodných Austrálskych obyvateľov Aborigenov. Výrazné, ale zjednodušené tváričky s očami a postavičky zase pripomínajú Aztécke symboly. Plošná estetika grafického dizajnu v maľbe je známa z tvorby amerických výtvarníkov smerov ako Pop art. Kresbo-maliarska technika odkazuje na Street art, Graffiti, či hnutie Lowbrow, ale aj komiksovú kultúru, ktoré majú v USA silné centrum. Ľudské profily a obrysy postáv čiernou linkou môžu naznačovať súvislost s historickými koreňmi Egyptského umenia. Surrealizmus a kubizmus – smery, o ktoré sa v princípe tiež opieram, majú svoj pôvod v Európe – vo Francúzsku a Španielsku. Tiež ma ovplyvnila slovenská výtvarná kultúra, keďže som sa tu narodila.

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Ghost Town.NYC exhibition in New York

3. November 2020 / america, art, artist, digitalexhibition, event, exhibition, fineart, new-york-city, newyork, usa

Arthouse.NYC and the curator Susannah Perlman organised a digital exhibition of the selected fine artworks, that were exhibited on digital displays in the centre of New York throughout the year. The exhibition Ghost Town.NYC was held on 30 and 31 October 2020 at Ideal Glass Studios, 9 West 8th Street near the Empire State Building and the famous 5th Avenue.

At the Ideal Glass Studios experimented the pioneers of electronic music Louis and Bebe Barron, composer John Cage, playwright Tennessee Williams, writer Henry Miller or filmmaker Bryant Haliday.

The exhibition Ghost Town.NYC presented the strange, eery, macabre and supernatural in a collection of artworks. Besides myself, there was work by the American illustrator of the New Yorker magazine Richard A. Chance, the Japanese drawer Mayuko Gray, the Columbian media artist and teacher Santiago Echeverry, Italian photographer Yasmina Barbet and others.

Arthouse.NYC pod vedením kurátorky Susannah Perlman zorganizovala digitálnu výstavu výtvarného umenia z výberu tých najlepších diel, ktoré sa za posledné roky prezentovali na digitálnych obrazovkách v centre New Yorku. Výstava Ghost Town.NYC sa konala 30.-31. októbra 2020 v priestoroch Ideal Glass Studios na ulici 9 West 8th Street neďaleko Empire State Building a slávnej ulice 5th Avenue.

V priestoroch dnešných Ideal Glass Studios pôsobili pionieri elektronickej hudby Louis a Bebe Barron a tiež tu experimentovali napríklad skladateľ John Cage, dramatik Tennessee Williams či spisovateľ Henry Miller alebo filmár Bryant Haliday.

Výstava Ghost Town.NYC ukázala tajomné, strašidelné či nadprirodzené javy v kolekcii výtvarných diel. Okrem mňa sa tu prezentoval aj americký ilustrátor časopisu The New Yorker Richard A. Chance, japonská kresliarka Mayuko Gray, kolumbijský mediálny umelec a pedagóg Santiago Echeverry, talianska fotografka Yasmina Barbet a ďalší.

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