Romani Stars
created: 25. 11. 2022 14:06 modified: 25. 11. 2022 14:14
Video from the exhibition entitled Romani Stars, which took place on March 12, 2014 in the premises of the Zemplín Enlightenment Center in Michalovce. The exhibition was organized by the civic association Nová cesta from Michalovce.
In the video, Jozef Fečo presents and describes his exhibited drawings and paintings, with humor typical for him.
Jozef Fečo is a graduate of the Secondary Art School in Prešov, Department of Design and Artistic Wood Shaping. He is mainly interested in the facial expressions of human faces, their expressive value and typical personality traits.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting drawing Slovak Jozef Fečo general audience internal
Miroslava Kiňová - Lacemaking
created: 08. 11. 2022 09:16 modified: 08. 11. 2022 09:20
Miroslava Kiňová's from Prešov hobby is making lace. She learnt lacemaking from the well-known lacemaker Barbora Šimková, who specialized in Soľnobanská lace type and founded The Guild of Soľnobanská Lacemakers. There also Miroslava Kiňová learnt her technique of lacemaking. She prefers to create the coloured lace with the motifs that are most often associated with Christmas. Betlehem, stars and small fish made of lace, they are both decorations for the Christmas table as well as a nice gift.
category: crafts
tags: active traditional artistic textiles bobbin lace Slovak Miroslava Kiňová general audience internal
Jozef Fečo - Věra Bílá
created: 07. 06. 2022 14:12 modified: 07. 06. 2022 14:14
The process of painting the portrait is recorded on the video. The person on the portrait is the Romani singer Věra Bílá (1954-2019). The paintings were made during implementation of the project Unknown Colours of Personalities, through which a total of 23 large-format portraits of Romani personalities were created. The first series of 13 paintings was created in 2015, the second series of 10 paintings was created in 2020. The author of the paintings is the Romani artist Jozef Fečo.
Věra Bílá. She was born on May 22, 1954, Rokycany, Czech Republic. She was a singer, musician and actress. She came from the well-known musical family of Karol Giňa. Her unique voice color and specific vocal expression have secured her a permanent place on the music scene at home and abroad. In 1995, together with young musicians, created the musical phenomenon of Věra Bílá and Kale. Musically, they defined a genre known as rom-pop: sophisticated vocal harmonies with vigorous dissonances in a mixture of Romani folk music, pop and Latin jazz. Věra Bílá also acted in two films by director Dušan Hanák: Ružové sny/Pink Dreams (1976), Ja milujem, ty miluješ/I Love, You Love (1980). She died on March 12, 1954, Pilsen, Czech RepublicMusic experts often likened Věra Bílá to the American Black star Elle Fitzgerald. She died on March 12, 2019 in Pilsen, Czech Republic.
Jozef Fečo is a graduate of the Secondary Art School in Prešov, Department of Design and Artistic Wood Shaping. He is mainly interested in the facial expressions of human faces, their expressive value and typical personality traits.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Slovak Jozef Fečo general audience internal
Jozef Fečo - Katarína Taikon
created: 07. 06. 2022 12:51 modified: 07. 06. 2022 13:02
The video captures the work of art. The person shown is the Roma singer Věra Bílá (1954-2019). The creation of the image is realized within the framework of Unknown Colors of Personalities, through which a total of 23 large-format portraits of Roma personalities were created. The author of the portraits is the Romani painter Jozef Fečo.
Katarina Taikon-Langhammer She was born on July 29, 1932, Almby, Sweden. She was a Swedish Roma activist, leader of the civil rights movement, writer and actress, from the Roma group Kalderash. The sister of the jeweler Rosa Taikon. Through her political and media activity, she fought for the acquisition of civil rights for the Roma in Sweden. She managed to change the main stereotypical views of the major society through her literary work; between the years 1963 and 1980 she published 16 sequels of children's books about the Roma girl Katitzi. Her stories are still very popular, even films were made of them. Katarina Taikon, for her political activism, is often compared to Martin Luther King. She died on 30 December 1995, Ytterhogdal, Sweden.
Jozef Fečo is a graduate of the Secondary Art School in Prešov, Department of Design and Artistic Wood Shaping. He is mainly interested in the facial expressions of human faces, their expressive value and typical personality traits.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Slovak Jozef Fečo general audience internal
Ondrej Gadžor - Sculptures
created: 10. 09. 2021 10:41 modified: 10. 09. 2021 10:53
The video from an exhibition of carvings by a prominent Romani carver and sculptor Ondrej Gadžor. The exhibition was held on 25.4.2014 as a memory of Ondrej Gadžor, who in 2013 died unexpectedly. Part of the works were lent by the Vojtech Löffler Museum in Košice.Ondrej Gadžor (9. 7. 1956 - 10/19/2013) - a native from Krásna nad Hornádom, he started carving when he was 24 years old. He works with different types of material - stone, even with horn or shells, but especially with wood. He developed a unique sculptural handwriting, influenced by the school of the academic sculptor Vojtech Löffler, in whose atelier he worked for eleven years. The subtle nature of small creation he managed to transfer into of monumental sized works made in sculptors' gatherings. His work is above the common works of non-professional sculptors. Abbreviations and abstraction reaches beyond normal folk art, and the final shape is somewhere between modern sculpture and African folk statues. His works' form is weightless, percepted as light and airy. His strengths are clean lines, he plays with wood and its structure, using them artfully in his works. Among the main themes stands a woman. He had several solo exhibitions, regularly attended sculpture open air events. He performed at several solo exhibitions at home and abroad. His works are exhibited, i. a., also in Los Angeles, or the Vatican and many are part of the collections of museums in Slovakia and in the Czech Republic (East Slovak Museum in Košice, SNM-Museum of Roma Culture in Slovakia in Martin, Vojtech Löffler Museum in Košice, Museum of Roma Culture in Brno).
category: crafts
tags: active traditional artistic wood carving Ondrej Gadžor general audience internal
The Unknown Colours of Personalities
created: 25. 08. 2021 08:47 modified: 25. 08. 2021 08:50
Montage of the record made during opening of the paintings exhibition titled The Unknown Colours of Personalities, held on the occasion of World Roma Day, in the Regional Museum in Prešov. All 13 large format paintings depict the portraits of the world-known personalities of the Romani origin. The video montage brings the dialogue between the curator of the exhibition Júlia Fričová and the author of the paintings, Jozef Fečo, about the topics such as the Romani known personalities, painting techniqes, and plans of the artist for the future. The video contains also the short evaluation of paintings by the curator of the exhibition Júlia Fričová and high school teacher Juraj Mandel.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Fečo general audience internal
Rezbári Čičava Lukáš Jarka
created: 06. 08. 2021 09:42 modified: 06. 08. 2021 09:45
A short story by the amateur woodcarver Lukáš Jarka about the way to woodcarving.
Lukáš Jarka comes from the village of Čičava. He got to the craft shop for woodcarving through his father, who already worked there as a forman, as a trained carpenter. In his story telling, he compares his work to the work of his father. He says he is more careful about the details than his father. In the video, he describes the specific production process of the woodcarved artifacts.
The story was created in 2013 during the documentation of the craft workshop ROMA ART Čičava. The sheltered workshop was established in 2012, initiated by Martin Mekel.
category: crafts
tags: active traditional artistic wood carving Romani Lukáš Jarka general audience internal
The Woodcarvers Čičava Ján Goroľ
created: 24. 05. 2021 08:47 modified: 27. 07. 2021 12:22
A short story by the amateur woodcarver Ján Goroľ about the way to woodcarving. He worked as a locksmith, with no real desire to work with wood. He got to the craft workshop and carving thanks to the Fellowship of the Apostle Paul and the priest, Martin Mekel. In the video he talks about the connection between Christian religion and craft. In the video he also says that who can draw, can become a woodcarver as well. When drawing, the most difficult is to portray the eyes and nose properly. He also describes the work on specific works.
Ján Goroľ is a member of the gospel band LOND.
The story was created in 2013 during the documentation of the craft workshop ROMA ART Čičava. The sheltered workshop was established in 2012, initiated by Martin Mekel.
category: crafts
tags: active traditional artistic wood carving Slovak general audience internal
The Woodcarvers, Čičava Imrich Goroľ
created: 31. 03. 2021 11:53 modified: 01. 06. 2021 08:43
The short story by amateur woodcarver Imrich Goroľ about his way to woodcarving.
Imrich Goroľ comes from the village of Soľ. He worked as a construction worker. He got to the woodcarving by accident. He is a member of the gospel band LOND. During one of their rehearsals in the Pastoral Centre in Čičava he met a woodcarver Milan Krajňák. He showed them various drawings and asked them whether they’d like to learn the craft of woodcarving. In the video he describes the process of making various works.
The story was created in 2013 during the documentation of the craft workshop ROMA ART Čičava. The sheltered workshop was established in 2012, initiated by Martin Mekel.
category: crafts
tags: active traditional artistic wood carving Slovak Imrich Goroľ general audience internal
The Woodcarvers Juraj Goroľ
created: 25. 03. 2021 20:20 modified: 31. 03. 2021 12:23
A short talk of the amateur woodcarver Juraj Goroľ, about his way to woodcarving.
Juraj Goroľ comes from the village Hlinné. He studied at two year vocational school of agriculture. In the video he emphasises the need of higher and sound education. He explaines how he came to work in the sheltered workshop. When he saw the work of the woodcarver Milan Krajňák, he liked it so much he decided to give it a try. He mostly does Christian themed works, mainly the face of Jesus or crucifixes.
The story was made in 2013 while the work of craft workshop ROMA ART Čičava was being documented. The sheltered workshop started in 2012, by the initiative of Martin Mekel.
category: crafts
tags: active traditional artistic wood carving Slovak general audience internal