Worth a look
Summer Exhibitions at Danubiana in Bratislava
Art and Heritage in Central Europe
The Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum invites you for several exhibitions that are available until September 1, 2025:
– Gérard Rancinan | Caroline Gaudriault “A Spirit of Time”:
Gérard Rancinan is an international artist whose photographic work is exhibited in the most prestigious museums worldwide and is part of major contemporary art collections. Deeply engaged with his time, he strives to be an attentive witness through the artistic transposition of staged photography and experimental works, always imbued with contemporary reflection. Rancinan has received numerous prestigious awards and has also been named Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. Caroline Gaudriault is an international curator for prestigious museums and a French author of artistic books and essays, translated into multiple languages. She creates literary installations to make visible a content. Journalist for many years for international magazines, she has analyzed major societal events. She collaborates with international thinkers and artists and has authored works with figures such as American political scientist Francis Fukuyama and French artist Pierre Soulages.
Gérard Rancinan and Caroline Gaudriault have been intertwining their artistic perspectives for over twenty-five years. They develop artistic projects together, fostering a dialogue that begins with photography and writing and extends into installations and cinematic works.
– Ton Pret “Follow Your Dream”
Ton Pret is a Dutch self-taught artist (born in1958, started in 2005) who does not follow the masses and is not guided by styles or trends, but simply follows his own course and this results in his colorful and unique style. Ton translates the reality of life into the reality of his inexhaustible imagination. Ton believes that his art should be accessible and understandable to everyone, whereby it should stimulate people’s imagination. His work can be seen in museums, but can also be found in company and private collections. The Dutch collector and art patron of the Danubiana -Gerard Meulensteen- is also a fan of his art and became a friend. Ton does not limit himself to just paintings, but has also transformed various objects into pieces of unique art and make also various design; beloved by great Italian designers and architects. Ton works a lot in Italy and won several Italian prices.
Read more: http://danubiana.sk/en/vystavy/nasleduj-svoj-sen
– Viera Kraicová “Metamorphosis”
Viera Kraicová (1920 – 2012) – Her illustrations are perhaps less well-known than her paintings, but that doesn’t take away from the significance and power of this field of her work. She devoted herself to illustration, one might say, systematically and for a long time, from the mid-1950s to the early 1980s, with a particular focus on children’s books. Although not formally trained in this area of she made up for it with self-study and the search for her own ways of expression. She approached illustrations honestly and developed a characteristic and truly modern style in terms of content and the purpose of the book, which Fedor Kriška referred to as a “metamorphosis.” Her work as an illustrator was highly rated, and her illustrations of children’s book in particular demonstrate the basic principles of her work in crystalline form, but transformed through the specific filter of the genre.
Read more: http://danubiana.sk/en/vystavy/prevtelovanie
– Jaroslava Bičovská “Californian Day”
Jaroslava Bičovská was born in 1945 in Brandýs nad Labem. She is a prominent Czech painter and illustrator, and a graduate of the Václav Hollar Art School in Prague. Since the 1970s, she has been engaged in free painting, featuring elements of abstraction and figuration, and inspired by musical motifs, landscape and calligraphic gestures. She employs a wide range of techniques from watercolor to acrylic to oil, with harmonious color and a precise, expressive drawing that dominates her works. She exhibits at home and abroad and her work can be found in a number of public and private collections. In the 1990s, she and her husband founded the Dar Ibn Rushd publishing house, where she specializes in graphic design and illustration.
Read more: http://danubiana.sk/en/vystavy/kalifornsky-dennik
