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SLOVAKIAN ARTIST<\/small> Cyril Uhn\u00e1k<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”” el_class=”xtd-spacer”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”630″ img_size=”full” style=”xtd-shadow–normal-light” el_class=”xtd-offset-frame”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″ offset=”vc_col-lg-offset-1 vc_col-lg-7″][vc_empty_space height=”45px”][vc_column_text]\n

Cyril Uhn\u00e1k\u2019s work and life is placed under the sign of circles. He was born in 1959 in \u010cajkov, in the region of the former Tekov county, rich in distinctive folk traditions. A direct, immediate contact with the unique phenomenon of simple beauty, aesthetic feeling and material authenticity became a defining element in his circle of wanderings and returns, in his views of the world of art at home and abroad. After graduating from the Slovak Technical University, he worked for 10 years in his field.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Go to e-shop” style=”btn-outline-primary” shape=”square” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.artisticostores.com%2Fcategories%2Fcyril-uhnak-2%2F|title:Cyril%20Uhnak%20Artistico||”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row gap=”35″ content_placement=”middle”][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]\n

Since 1993 he has devoted himself to fine art. He lives and works in Bratislava. After several years of gathering and verifying experiences, he came to terms with differing themes and motifs through his creation of cycles. When he started, he worked on architecture. He studied Canaletto\u2019s vedutas of Venice, fragments of Bratislava\u2019s dominating monuments. This was followed by a\u00a0cycle on the river Danube. He captured the panorama of the Slovak mountains in his work \u201cCarpathians\u201d. Through external experiences, he sees and develops his programme on the poetry and melody of the Slovak countryside. In his dialogue between traditional painting and modern painting materials and approaches, he steps on the path carved out by Martin Benka, Karol Plicka and others. <\/span><\/p>\n

The genre of painting is static, yet in the cycle \u201cDance! Sing!\u201d, Uhn\u00e1k evokes some sort of cinema, drama, coloured playfulness; the rhythm of dance and the joy of movement, too. Moving coloured materials march before us against an abstract background. The rapacious, synthetic materiality of acrylic polemicizes with the naturalness and earthiness of the original. <\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”2546″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” style=”xtd-shadow–normal-normal”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”2544″ img_size=”full” style=”xtd-shadow–normal-normal”][\/vc_column][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”2547″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]\n

His compositions create expressive, fully-fledged chromatic chords in the foreground, with a gradual dematerialisation of scenic backgrounds, while playing with the inversion of spatial plans. In the second part, he uses the method of heavy oil glazes on thickly textured canvasses, paying reverence to Venetian painting. Oil is a human face to a painter. It is the materialisation of the fullness and uniqueness of life. On the lifted horizon of the background, mountains float, interwoven with valleys in the summer heat. Let us be carried away by the echo of long-gone mowing songs, the tones of the elegiac, wistful shepherd\u2019s pipe, or the song of a lonely shepherd. Holl\u00fd\u2019s world of Sel\u00e1nky, mountains full of people. <\/span><\/p>\n

In relation to Cyril\u2019s work, I am taking the liberty of paraphrasing the name of the book \u201cThe Zest of Life\u201d by Teilhard de Chardin. In the everydayness of an ordinary day, he wears a festive hint of the distant and recent past and \u201cpaints today\u2019s book with zest\u201d. In brief: his work is a polemic interplay with a destructive force. It is the demonstration and materialisation of enthusiasm for the intermediary images of the gift and zest of life itself.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]\n

Exhibitions<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]\n
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  • 1992 Lauda, Nemecko, Galeria Sack Meixner<\/li>\n
  • 1993 Frankfurt\/Main, Nemecko, Slovart<\/li>\n
  • 1995 Bad Homburg, Nemecko, Tennis Club<\/li>\n
  • 1996 Lauda, Nemecko, Galeria Sack Meixner<\/li>\n
  • 1998 Seattle, USA, Gallery Magna<\/li>\n
  • 1999 Bratislava, Slovensko, Gale\u0301ria Pol\u030cnobanky<\/li>\n
  • 1999 Bratislava, Slovensko, Gale\u0301ria Artemiss<\/li>\n
  • 1999 Bratislava, Slovensko, Danube Art Gallery<\/li>\n
  • 2000 Puerto Andratx, S\u030cpanielsko, Casa Nova<\/li>\n
  • 2000 Bangkog, Thajsko, ICV<\/li>\n
  • 2000 Senec, Slovensko, Hotel Senec<\/li>\n
  • 2001 Puerto Andratx, S\u030cpanielsko, Villa Italia<\/li>\n
  • 2002 Bratislava, Slovensko, Gale\u0301ria Pol\u030cnobanky<\/li>\n
  • 2002 Bratislava, Slovensko, Porsche Interauto<\/li>\n
  • 2002 Bratislava, Slovensko, AmCham<\/li>\n
  • 2002 Levice, Slovensko, Gale\u0301ria J.Ne\u0301cseya<\/li>\n
  • 2002 Makarska, Chorva\u0301tsko, Hotel Meteor<\/li>\n
  • 2003 Bratislava, Slovensko, Hotel Holiday Inn<\/li>\n
  • 2003 Bratislava, Slovensko, Gale\u0301ria Forma Polus<\/li>\n
  • 2003 Bratislava, Slovensko, Aegon<\/li>\n
  • 2003 Bratislava, Slovensko, AmCham<\/li>\n
  • 2003 Senec, Slovensko, Hotel Senec<\/li>\n
  • 2003 C\u030cajkov, Slovensko, Mu\u0301zeum OU\u0301<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]\n
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    • 2004 Bratislava, Slovensko, Romeo & Julietta<\/li>\n
    • 2004 Bratislava, Slovensko, Gale\u0301ria Thoha<\/li>\n
    • 2004 Pies\u030ct\u030cany, Slovensko, Gale\u0301ria Fonta\u0301na<\/li>\n
    • 2005 Brusel, Belgicko, Berlaymont, EK<\/li>\n
    • 2005 Lauda, Nemecko, Goldener Stern<\/li>\n
    • 2006 Vieden\u030c, Raku\u0301sko, Radisson Hotel<\/li>\n
    • 2006 Pies\u030ct\u030cany, Slovensko, S\u030candor pavilon<\/li>\n
    • 2006 Budapes\u030ct\u030c, Mad\u030carsko, Slovensky\u0301 ins\u030ctitu\u0301t<\/li>\n
    • 2007 Wars\u030cava, Pol\u030csko, Slovensky\u0301 institu\u0301t<\/li>\n
    • 2007 Wars\u030cava, Pol\u030csko, Mu\u0301zeum mesta Wars\u030cava<\/li>\n
    • 2007 Bialsko Biala, Pol\u030csko, Beskydska\u0301 kniz\u030cnica<\/li>\n
    • 2007 Londy\u0301n, Vel\u030cka\u0301 Brita\u0301nia, Vel\u030cvyslanectvo SR<\/li>\n
    • 2007 Bratislava, Slovensko, Gale\u0301ria Thoha<\/li>\n
    • 2008 Bratislava, Slovensko, Gerulata \u00ad- Rusovce<\/li>\n
    • 2008 Monaco, Francu\u0301zsko, Galeria Artemisia<\/li>\n
    • 2008 Londy\u0301n, Vel\u030cka\u0301 Brita\u0301nia, Rols Royce HR Owen<\/li>\n
    • 2008 Bratislava, Slovensko, Gale\u0301ria Thoha<\/li>\n
    • 2009 Bratislava, Slovensko, Gale\u0301ria Pa\u0301llfyho pala\u0301c Za\u0301mocka\u0301 ul.<\/li>\n
    • 2009 Praha, C\u030cesko, Slovensky\u0301 institu\u0301t<\/li>\n
    • 2009 Washington, USA, Vel\u030cvyslanectvo SR<\/li>\n
    • 2009 Levice, Slovensko, Gale\u0301ria J.Ne\u0301cseya<\/li>\n
    • 2009 Bratislava, Slovensko, Gale\u0301ria Thoha<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]\n
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      • 2010 Galanta, Slovensko, Salo\u0301n Galanta<\/li>\n
      • 2010 Bratislava, Slovensko, Gale\u0301ria Michalsky\u0301 dvor<\/li>\n
      • 2011 Brusel, Belgicko, SKM Brusel<\/li>\n
      • 2011 Brusel, Belgicko, Galerie Incontri<\/li>\n
      • 2011 Pies\u030ct\u030cany, Slovensko, Dom umenia<\/li>\n
      • 2011 Galanta, Slovensko, Gale\u0301ria Renesanc\u030cny\u0301 kostel<\/li>\n
      • 2011 Bratislava, Slovensko, Gale\u0301ria Sala Terena, Grasalkovic\u030cov pala\u0301c<\/li>\n
      • 2011 Bratislava, Slovensko, Rosso Nero<\/li>\n
      • 2012 Bratislava, Slovensko, Artistico Shopping Palace<\/li>\n
      • 2012 Florencia, Taliansko, Galeria Mentana<\/li>\n
      • 2013 Praha, C\u030cesko, Artistico O2 Arena, Galerie Harfa<\/li>\n
      • 2014 Bratislava, Slovensko, Company Art<\/li>\n
      • 2014 Voderady, Slovensko, Artistico<\/li>\n
      • 2014 Viden\u030c, Raku\u0301sko, Artistico SCS<\/li>\n
      • 2016C\u030cierna Voda, Slovensko, Atlanti\u0301da<\/li>\n
      • 2017 Bratislava, Slovensko, Gale\u0301ria NR SR, Hrad<\/li>\n
      • 2018 Orchard Gallery Ostrava<\/li>\n
      • 2018 V\u00fdstavn\u00ed s\u00ed\u0148 M\u00e1nes Praha<\/li>\n
      • 2019 Orchard Gallery Ostrava<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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