Imrich Svitana – Periphery of consciousness

It represents an effort to revise, reevaluate and re-present a selection from more than sixty years of extensive creative activity, consisting of free drawing, joke drawing, illustrative study drawing - with motifs connecting two-dimensional and three-dimensional visual media; chamber sculpture, sculptural work, monumental realizations for public space, a series of zoomorphic climbing frames for children's playgrounds, medal creation and, last but not least, jewelry creation.

The author's restless, never-resting mind stands behind such an extensive list of art forms, an unfathomable number of studies, designs and final realizations. As if on a conveyor belt, he produces playful scrums of subjects, resulting in materially diverse, ingeniously critical, sometimes illustrative or naïve geometric forms, connecting and abstracting figure and architecture, based on personal experiences, global cultural and social events, history and science fiction.

Imrich Svitana (January 22, 1944, Spišská Nová Ves), studied artistic metal processing between 1963 and 1970 with prof. Matejovského and Nušl, at the University of Art Industry in Prague. The author's works are represented in the collections of the Slovak National Gallery, the East Slovak Gallery, the East Slovak Museum in Košice, the Orava Gallery, the E. Zmeták Gallery, the Tatra Gallery, the Liptovská Gallery PM Bohúň, the City Gallery of Bratislava, the Central Slovak Gallery, the Regional Gallery in Prešov, the Nitra Gallery, the Gallery of Artists Spiša, also in several Czech galleries, but also in private collections in Slovakia and abroad.

Location : Východoslovak Gallery, Alžbetina 22, Košice