Miroslav Rác - "Denisians"
created: 03. 09. 2015 09:37 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
The author's composition - Miroslav Rác, piano, the instrumental composition, solo player. The composition was documented during the jazz concert in Želiezovce.
category: music
Gypsy Jazz Festival
created: 14. 08. 2015 12:23 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
The 4th year of the Gypsy Jazz Festival, which main organizer is a well-known musician - saxofon player, composer, band leader and promoter Miloslav Suchomel was held on February 2, 2015 in Bratislava at the theater Nová Scéna. Suchomel left behind the original festival form of individual concerts and the visitors were offered a comprehensive performance of his 30 members orchestra with jazz and string sections (the latter lead by the concert master of the Slovak National Theater, Arpád Patkoló), which gave place to several guest stars: the American singer Gail Anderson and the Romani singer Dotschy Reinhardt as the singing stars, followed by another American, a saxofon player Bill Evans. The styled Romani dance was performed by the dancers' group of Simona Horváthová. Music of the festival oscilated between the genres, mainly those of jazz, latino, oriental music and creations growing from the traditional Romani jazz. The festival was accompanied by the exhibition of fine art produced by academic painters Vladislav Zabel, Pavel Pokorný and Jozef Srna jr. The paintings were offered to the visitors for possible purchase.
category: music
Duo Farsa - Milonga
created: 03. 08. 2015 15:06 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Audio recording contains the public performance of a guitar duo, Duo Farsa. Guitar duo plays self composed emotional songs of different genres, with a dominance of spanish rhythms of flamenco. Duo is composed of two virtuoso Roma musicians, František Godla and Dušan Onody from Sabinov. Their song Milonga was inspired by Jorge Cardoso´s - Milonga. It has an emotional significance. Performers begin every concert with this song as a tribute to their parents, grandparents.
category: music
Duo Farsa - Concert
created: 03. 08. 2015 14:45 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Audio recording contains the public performance of a guitar duo, Duo Farsa. Guitar duo plays self composed emotional songs of different genres, with a dominance of spanish rhythms of flamenco. Duo is composed of two virtuoso Roma musicians, Františk Godla and Dušan Onody from Sabinov.
category: music
Joaquín Cortés
created: 30. 07. 2015 14:18 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Jozef Fečo is an amateur graphic artist who graduated at the Secondary Art School in Prešov. He studied wood design and carving. In 2011, he actively started to create his own works with his first work being the painting of Jesus on canvas. A series of ten fine art portraits of world famous personalities was created within the priority project "Live Books (word – video – audio)" supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic in April and May 2015. The artist Jofe Fečo prepared 9 portraits in his home environment in the village of Kračúnovce. The tenth portrait was created in the premises of the Documentation and Information Centre of the Roma Culture. The person depicted in the portrait is Joaquín Cortés, a ballet and flamenco dancer. He was born in 1969 in Spain. When creating dance choreographies, he cooperated with important world pop music figures. Picture dimensions. Picture dimensions: 120cm (š) x 100cm (v). The underlying material is plasterboard. Fine art technique used: pop art - street art.
category: fine arts
Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira
created: 30. 07. 2015 13:59 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Jozef Fečo is an amateur graphic artist who graduated at the Secondary Art School in Prešov. He studied wood design and carving. In 2011, he actively started to create his own works with his first work being the painting of Jesus on canvas. A series of ten fine art portraits of world famous personalities was created within the priority project "Live Books (word – video – audio)" supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic in April and May 2015. The artist Jozef Fečo prepared 9 portraits in his home environment in the village of Kračúnovce. The tenth portrait was created in the premises of the Documentation and Information Centre of the Roma Culture. The person depicted in the portrait is Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira. He was the president of Brasilia between 1956 and 1961. His mother was of Roma descent and his grandfather, Jan Kubíček of Třeboň, was a Czech Roma. Picture dimensions: 120cm (š) x 100cm (v). The underlying material is plasterboard. Fine art technique used: pop art - street art.
category: fine arts
Yul Brynner
created: 29. 07. 2015 10:02 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Jozef Fečo is an amateur graphic artist who graduated at the Secondary Art School in Prešov. He studied wood design and carving. In 2011, he actively started to create his own works with his first work being the painting of Jesus on canvas. A series of ten fine art portraits of world famous personalities was created within the priority project "Live Books (word – video – audio)" supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic in April and May 2015. The artist Jozef Fečo prepared 9 portraits in his home environment in the village of Kračúnovce. The tenth portrait was created in the premises of the Documentation and Information Centre of the Roma Culture. The person depicted in the portrait is an actor Yul Brynner. He was born in 1920 in Russia and died in 1985 in New York (USA). He won an Oscar but he became the most famous for his character in the cult western film The Magnificent Seven. He publicly acknowledged his Roma origin. He was a co-founder and the president of the International Romani Union. Picture dimensions: 120cm (š) x 100cm (v). The underlying material is plasterboard. Fine art technique used: pop art - street art.
category: fine arts
Tony Gatlif
created: 24. 07. 2015 13:28 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Jozef Fečo is an amateur graphic artist who graduated at the Secondary Art School in Prešov. He studied wood design and carving. In 2011, he actively started to create his own works with his first work being the painting of Jesus on canvas. A series of ten fine art portraits of world famous personalities was created within the priority project "Live Books (word – video – audio)" supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic in April and May 2015. The artist Jozef Fečo prepared 9 portraits in his home environment in the village of Kračúnovce. The tenth portrait was created in the premises of the Documentation and Information Centre of the Roma Culture. The person depicted in the portrait is Tony Gatlif (Michel Dahmani Gatlif), a film producer and director. He was born on 10 September 1948 in Algiers into a very poor family of a Roma Spanish mother and Arabic father. He lives and creates in France. He became famous for his films focusing on Roma theme Latcho drom a Gadjo dilo. Picture dimensions: 120cm (š) x 100cm (v). The underlying material is plasterboard. Fine art technique used: pop art - stencil art.
category: fine arts
Rita Hayworthová
created: 23. 07. 2015 10:06 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Jozef Fečo is an amateur graphic artist who graduated at the Secondary Art School in Prešov. He studied wood design and carving. In 2011, he actively started to create his own works with his first work being the painting of Jesus on canvas. A series of ten fine art portraits of world famous personalities was created within the priority project "Live Books (word – video – audio)" supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic in April and May 2015. The artist Jozef Fečo prepared 9 portraits in his home environment in the village of Kračúnovce. The tenth portrait was created in the premises of the Documentation and Information Centre of the Roma Culture. The person depicted in the portrait is Rita Hayworth (Margarita Carmen Cansino), an American dancer and actor. She was born in 1918 and she is best known starring in The Loves of Carmen (1948), Dancing Pirate (1936), or Circus World (1964). Her father, Eduardo Cansino, open a dance school in Hollywood in 1926. She died in 1987 in the USA. Picture dimensions: 120cm (š) x 100cm (v). The underlying material is plasterboard. Fine art technique used: pop art - stencil art.
category: fine arts
Michael Caine
created: 16. 07. 2015 14:17 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Jozef Fečo is an amateur graphic artist who graduated at the Secondary Art School in Prešov. He studied wood design and carving. In 2011, he actively started to create his own works with his first work being the painting of Jesus on canvas. A series of ten fine art portraits of world famous personalities was created within the priority project "Live Books (word – video – audio)" supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic in April and May 2015. The artist Jozef Fečo prepared 9 portraits in his home environment in the village of Kračúnovce. The tenth portrait was created in the premises of the Documentation and Information Centre of the Roma Culture. The person depicted in the portrait is Michael Caine, an English actor born in 1933. His father came from London Roma family dealing with horse trading. He admits he has the blood of the Roma in his veins. In 2000, he was knighted. Picture dimensions: 120cm (š) x 100cm (v). The underlying material is plasterboard. Fine art technique used: pop art - stencil art.
category: fine arts
