Koloman Sokol 1968-1993
I am not interested in money, politics,
fame or comfortable life.
My aim has always been the life framed in purity.
Whether I will reach it? I do not know.
My life was cast of lead.
1968
The end of the sixties marked the beginning of the last creative phase in the oeuvre of Koloman Sokol, a significant figure of Slovak fine art whose artistic and humanistic legacy reached far beyond the borders of Slovakia. In this period, Sokol´s thinking and style significantly changed. He no longer aspired to a formal perfection, as if he lost interest in morphology, composition or space. He turned his attention to the atmosphere, the depiction of crucial moments and the state of mind. Eighteen works from the Nedbalka Gallery´s collection executed between 1968 and 1993 represent the selection of the artist´s best works from this creative period.
Supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council.
Koloman Sokol
Koloman Sokol was born in 1902 in Liptovský Mikuláš. He met Dr. Mathém, who started studying at the private school of Eugen Krone in Košice . Here he met for the first time with fine arts. Later he studied at the private school of Gustav Malý in Bratislava . He also studied art in Prague and in Paris . He received an offer from the Mexican Ministry of Culture and Education and left to study fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico , where he founded the Graphics Department. Although he achieved great success in Mexico. He moved to New York in 1941, because of the health of his wife, Lydia. After the war, he returned to Slovakia , but he had long since left his home in 1948 . He has been a member of the Union of Mexican Graphic Artists and has lived in Arizona for the last decade . At the end of his life, he gave 48 of his paintings to Slovakia, which later became the Foundation of the Koloman Sokol Center in Liptovsky Mikulas. He died 12.1.2003. In spite of his great success, he stayed until the end of his life with a modest man seeking his truth.
Painting 2024
The competition Maľba – Cena Nadácie VÚB za maliarske dielo pre mladých umelcov (Painting – the VUB Foundation Award for young artists) has fulfilled its mission – to promote Slovakia´s most gifted professional painters and raise public awareness of visual art – for nineteen years.
Erik Binder – Visual Punk
The exhibition “Erik Binder – Visual Punk” at the Nedbalka Gallery presents paintings by one of the most outstanding artists on the Slovak art scene after the Velvet Revolution.
Miloš Alexander Bazovský – Slovak Visual Ballad
The Nedbalka Gallery mounts several exhibitions a year, through which it presents to the broad public works from its collections that have not been included in the permanent exposition. The exhibition “Slovak Visual Ballad” presents the development of Miloš Alexander Bazovský´s work between the 1920s and 1950s.
Fero Lipták – Over Spilled Milk
Nedbalka Gallery presents “Over Spilled Milk”, a solo show of the Slovak artist Fero Lipták, at their space.
Maľba (Painting) 2023
The competition Maľba – Cena Nadácie VÚB za maliarske dielo pre mladých umelcov (Painting – the VUB Foundation Award for young artists) has fulfilled its mission – to promote Slovakia´s most gifted professional painters and raise public awareness of visual art – for eighteen years.
Still Lifes from the Nedbalka Gallery´s Collection
Bringing together the works that have not been included in the Gallery´s permanent exposition, the exhibition presents the genre of still life in the context of modern Slovak art.
Lucia Dovičáková – The I Feel Like…
Lucia Dovičáková’s work has been resonating on the Slovak art scene for eighteen years, and together with the artist it has reached a clear definition of a strong authorial programme that has a woman and her image in its centre.
Three Times Čutek
Three Times Čutek exhibition represents almost seventy years of the creative effort of three generations of the Čutek family of sculptors in the selection of works from the most significant periods of their creation; it also illustrates their inter-generational relationships.