Vojtech Kӧkény - The Settlement Podhorany
created: 30. 06. 2022 13:07 modified: 18. 07. 2022 08:59
The 61 cm x 43 cm drawing shows a portrait of a man from a Romani settlement in Podhorany. The technique used is red chalk on paper. The author is Vojtech Kökény. The image is signed in the lower right corner of the drawing, the drawing was created in 2001. The painting was part of the collection built by the civic association Jekhetane-Spolu, which supported the work of Romani artists.
PhDr. Vojtech Kökény (Kökény Kotyer Béla) was born in 1956 in a Romani settlement in the village of Cakov near Rimavská Seč. He came from a musical family. For many years he worked as a worker on various construction sites in Slovakia and abroad. He devoted himself to fine arts, politics and local activism. As he himself mentions in one of the interviews, he was not a prolific painter. He worked with pencils, water and oil paints. He exhibited his works mainly in the Romani Traveling Gallery, organized by the Civic Association Jekhetane-Spolu under the leadership of Daniela Hivešová-Šilanová. From 1995 to 2005 he worked at the District Office in Rimavská Sobota as a social worker.
He was a member of the Roma Civic Initiative (ROI) party, later joined the Roma Intelligence for Coexistence (RIS) party, and ended his political career in the Roma Coalition Party (SRK). In 2005, he ran for Headperson of the Banská Bystrica Self-Governing Region.
author: Vojtech Kӧkény
copyright: State Scientific Library in Prešov
recorded: 22. 02. 2022
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact drawing Vojtech Kӧkény general audience internal
