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.
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.
Painting 2022
Twenty finalists, from which three winners will emerge in the autumn, have been carefully selected by the jury.
Ľudovít Fulla – Fragments
The exhibition Ľudovít Fulla – FRAGMENTS examines different periods of artist´s oeuvre through the works from the collections of the Nedbalka Gallery
Marián Čunderlík – Struggling for a new vision
Through his early figural work, Čunderlík became an imaginary connection between a modern tradition of Slovak painting and the non-tradition of abstract tendencies.
Magical Moments
The exhibition of photographs by Peter Paško, Palo Luka, Peter Nižňanský and Julo Nagy, titled “Magical Moments”, is documentation of photo trips to almost all continents made between 2006 and 2016.
Painting 2021
Twenty finalists, from which three winners will emerge in the autumn, have been carefully selected by the jury.