#Slovak National Gallery

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Digital Works Podcast Episode 046 - Michal Čudrnák (Slovak National Gallery)

In this episode Ash chats to Michal Čudrnák Head of Digital Collections & Services at the Slovak National Gallery.

We talk about the history of the gallery, and how the Digital team has grown and evolved over recent years. We talk about the interesting and somewhat unique role that the Slovak National Gallery plays in supporting the wider Slovak cultural sector with digital tools and expertise. We look at the role of digital in supporting in-person attendance, and how designing for this context is very different from 'fully remote' experiences. 

Michal explains of the different ways that his team works with other organisations, on collaborative projects with the cultural sector in Slovakia and further afield, and we explore some examples of public-private relationships that they are exploring.

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Slovak National Gallery overwhelmed with resignations

One hundred employees of the Slovak National Gallery declared that they could not continue working under the new management appointed by Culture Minister Martina Šimkovičová, according to Euractiv.

About 40 per cent of the staff, including department heads and curators, are expected to leave Slovakia’s flagship cultural institution by April. The employees also said the appointment of Jaroslav Niňaj as the gallery’s third director in six months jeopardised the safety of valuable artworks.

We are no longer willing to work in an environment where laws are violated, where public finances are handled questionably, and where seasoned experts become victims of the Ministry of Culture’s purposeful decisions.

The crisis had already begun to spread outside the country. However, the Ministry of Culture stated that “even in the event of personnel changes at the gallery, the stability and continued operation of the institution will be secured and there is no risk of the National Gallery collapsing.”

In January, three foreign museums ceased co-operation with the National Gallery, citing concerns over the safety of loaned artworks. Tatra Banka, the gallery’s largest private sponsor and part of the Raiffeisen banking group, also ended a seven-year partnership earlier this month.

The change in the country’s cultural leadership affected major institutions such as the Slovak National Theatre, the Slovak Literary Centre and the Slovak National Museum, as well as the reform of public broadcasting.

Last year, thousands of people protested in Bratislava demanding Šimkovičová’s resignation, with nearly 200,000 people signing a petition calling for her dismissal.

Read more HERE

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Tavík František Šimon / "New York - Brooklyn Bridge" / ab. 1927 / Slovak National Gallery

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Laszlo Mednyanszky (1852-1919)

Study of a Seated Young Man (1875)

Slovak National Gallery

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After Angelica Kauffmann, 1741-1807

Paris and Helena, 1774, tempera coloration oil on canvas

Slovak National Gallery, Inv. C 14743

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Jesus Christ Bearing the Cross

Artist: Hans von Aachen (German 1552–1615)

Date: 1587

Medium: Oil on Oak Wood

Collection: Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

Jesus Christ Carrying the Cross

After being ruthlessly tortured by the Romans, Jesus was forced to carry His cross to the place where He would be crucified. At first, Jesus carried His own cross (John 19:17). But, eventually, likely due to the extreme torture He had already endured, Jesus was no longer able to carry His cross. As a result, the Roman soldiers forced another man to help Jesus carry the cross.

Matthew, Mark, and Luke all identify the man who helped Jesus carry the cross as Simon, a man from Cyrene (Matthew 27:32; Mark 15:21; Luke 23:26). Cyrene was an ancient city in Libya, Africa. Its location has led to many traditional depictions of Simon as an African black man. It is possible that Simon was black, but, since Scripture does not say, we cannot be sure. Cyrene was a Greek colony and a major cultural center of Greek philosophy and medicine. The city also had a significant population of Jews and Jewish proselytes.

Simon of Cyrene was the man who helped Jesus carry the cross. For that, he is “immortalized” in the pages of Scripture. Hopefully, after receiving an extreme close-up of the suffering Jesus endured on our behalf, Simon of Cyrene also came to trust Jesus as His Savior. Simon may have borne the cross part of the way to Golgotha, but Jesus bore Simon’s sin (1 John 2:2).

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"Anna Daučíková (1950 Bratislava) explores "in-betweenness" in the queer attitude. Here we see an expression of the idea of the "mental body" from the perspective of non-normative sexualities, providing an insight into the experience of a transgender human. In the 1980s Daučíková lived in Moscow, working as a glass designer, and pursued painting, jewellery, photography, performance, and writing. Glass and its ability to optical perception reflect light and change the is one of the core principles in this work. It represents a body which can simultaneously have and not have substance. Her photoperformance Upbringing by Touch I-V from 1996 uses "self" to chronicle a process of becoming somebody, or somebody else through the action with a glass plate."

Transgender art found at the Slovak national gallery.

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Czech Radio (Cesky rozhlas) has suspended its ties with its Slovak counterpart STVR for an indefinite period of time over mounting fears of political meddling and interference in the Slovak public service broadcaster’s operations, the Sme daily reported on Monday.

A Czech Radio spokesman described the “forced demise” earlier this year of predecessor RTVS, and the creation, effective since July, of STVR in its stead as the “first step towards the nationalisation of the [Slovak] public broadcaster”, whose independence and impartiality now hang by a thread, the Slovak daily reported.

In July, Czech Radio head Rene Zavoral said he would have to wait to see “if the new [STVR] organisation will defend the principles of an independent, impartial and objective public service media” before deciding on whether or not to continue his organisation’s cooperation with its Slovak counterpart.

Czech Television (Ceska televize) is also closely monitoring developments in Slovakia’s media sphere, according to the investigative outlet Hlidacipes.org.

According to Sme, the Slovak public broadcaster is already facing increased political pressure and interference, with, among other instances of undue meddling, STVR management blocking a live interview with Matej Drlicka, the former head of the Slovak National Theatre recently dismissed by Culture Minister Martina Simkovicova, and instead airing a recording of it.

The move by Czech Radio will take off the Slovak airwaves its reporters who, until now, had helped cover foreign news in countries where RTVS did not have any or enough correspondents, including in geopolitical hotspots like Ukraine or the Middle East. All exchanges of news content will also end.

“Slovak Radio covers its foreign news from several sources, so it will continue to fully inform about events from the mentioned areas,” STVR responded, claiming the move doesn’t change anything in its long-term cooperation with its Czech counterparts.

The turmoil in Slovakia’s media sector is part of wider assault by the government of Robert Fico on the country’s institutions and judicial system since it won back power in last year’s parliamentary election. The three-party coalition, which includes the extreme-right Slovak Nationalist Party (SNS), appears determined to undermine the rule of law in the country, which is expected to bring it into conflict with the EU, in much the same way as the Hungarian government of Viktor Orban has found itself.

The Slovak government’s Act on Public Broadcasting, a controversial reform passed in June which gave the government greater oversight and control over the public broadcaster’s board, had already sparked large protests by the opposition, civil society and cultural sector. These have stepped up since the new culture minister, a divisive, hard-right, Russia-friendly former presenter put forward by the SNS, began driving the Fico government’s cultural and media power-grab.

Thousands of people protested on Monday in Bratislava against Simkovicova’s decision to fire, on dubious managerial grounds, Alexandra Kusa, the director of the Slovak National Gallery, as well as Drlicka of the Slovak National Theatre – both respected cultural figures in the country and abroad.

Another demonstration is planned on Tuesday evening against what is widely perceived as Fico’s increasingly authoritarian crackdown on free speech and his Orban-style attempts to put cultural institutions and public media organisations under political control.

Prominent Czech artists also penned an open letter criticising the ongoing “purge” in Slovakia’s cultural sector, vowing to come together to create a network offering jobs and positions in the Czech Republic for Slovak colleagues affected by the changes or forced out.

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Girl with a Doll

Artist: Josef Czauczik (Hungarian, 1781–1857)

Date: 1830

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Slovak National Gallery, Slovakia

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Unknown artist - Self portrait ( Slovak National Gallery )

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Some paintings from a Slovak national Gallery book on Ukrainian art.

- Oleksandr Murasko : Teresa. Zvestovanie. 1908

- Vsevolod Maksymovyč : Otrok. 1913

- Mychajlo Zuk : Biela a čierna. 1912-1914

- Oleksandr Bohomazov : Hráči kariet. 1912

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Francesco del Pedro, 1749-1806 (After Angelica Kauffmann, 1741-1807)

Cupid and the Three Graces, n/d, etching, 29.5x35.7 cm

Slovak National Gallery, Inv. G 764

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Maria Bartuszova

https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2023/04/24/maria-bartuszova/

#bornonthisday Mária Bartuszová (1936–1996) was a Slovakian sculptor known for her abstract white plaster sculptures. Her work is included in the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava and the Tate in London. Her artwork is part of curated selection of Venice Biennale titled "Milk of Dreams", Arsenale Area (April - November 2022) via Wikipedia

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Maria Bartuszová