Vojtech Váradi
created: 12. 12. 2019 15:14 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
A collection of photographs documenting a Romani woodcarver Vojtech Varadi. He lives and works in the village Bretka (district of Rožňava). He worked in the village as a cattle shepherd and got to carving craft during his work, when he began to carve out wood in a meadow. The photos document his dwelling where he creates, but also the space in front of the house where he shows his carvings. It is mainly birds, but also utility items such as spoons, ladles, boars. He has three sons, only one of them is carving - Boris Varadi. Woodcarving is a source of livelihood for them.
category: crafts
tags: active traditional artistic wood carving Vojtech Váradi general audience internal
Šarlota Bottová
created: 28. 10. 2019 18:22 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
The photo file documenting creation of the portrait made by the Romani painter Sarlota Bottova. The drawing pictures the British actor, musician and writer James Hugh Calum Laurie. The photos document the process of drawing the picture.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact drawing Šarlota Bottová general audience internal
Karel Adam
created: 28. 10. 2019 18:18 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Karel Adam, DiS.art, (1953-) is a professional musician – first violinist, conductor and in the time of speaking the director (1998-2016) of the professional Romani Theater Romathan. After graduation from The State Conservatory in Košice he worked for art agencies Slovkoncert and Pragokoncert. In 1992 he joined the nascent Theater Romathan as a Chief Conductor of the Theater Orchestra.
category: visual art
tags: secular digital artistic in persona photography Karel Adam general audience internal
Barbora Botošová
created: 27. 06. 2019 15:12 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
The file contains three colour photographs of the first violinist Barbora Botošová. The cultural object was created in Roma Institute, Klariská 14 street, Bratislava, on 6th February 2014, during speaking about the roma music.
category: fine arts
tags: secular digital artistic in persona photography Barbora Botošová general audience internal
Cinka Panna - The Memorial
created: 21. 06. 2019 10:48 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
The photographs documenting the memorial of the Romani lead violinist Cinka Panna. The author is the carver and sculptor Aladár Igó. The memorial was installed in the Gemer village in 1992.
Cinka Panna - the legendary Romani lead violinist well-known in all Hungarian kingdom as well as in Poland and Romania (some mentioned as Cinkova Panna).
* 1711 - Gemer (district of Rimavska Sobota)
† 5th of February, 1772 - buried in Gemer
category: fine arts
tags: secular digital artistic 3D artifact sculpture Cinka Panna general audience internal
Jozef Cichý
created: 21. 06. 2019 10:40 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Jozef Cichý (1966-) is a painter of the Romani origin from the village Nizny Zipov in the district of Trebisov. The vehicle mechanic by profession, devoted many of his years of life to painting exclusively. His artwork is mainly influenced by Salvador Dali, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarotti and Rafael Santi. He paints mostly with acrylic and oil colours on canvas or sololit. Several of his wall paintings are in churches and funeral houses. The main motives of his artwork are of sacral nature as well as family evironment, war and "romipen". In 90s of the past century he received award for painting in the Slovak competition of amateur art work in Trencin. Among the works of other Romani artists were his paintings exhibited in Poland, in the Museum of the Romani Culture in Brno, in Bratislava at the exhibition titled Heartprints at the Pallette of Romani Artists, in Presov, in Michalovce at the exhibition titled Romane cerchena (Romani Stars) or in Stropkov. Currently, his paintings can be seen in aproximately 30 villages in funeral houses and churches, exhibited in the Museum of Romani Culture in Brno and in other places both in Slovakia and abroad.
category: fine arts
tags: secular digital artistic photography Jozef Cichý general audience internal
The mysterious world and the Fuzzies
created: 07. 12. 2018 21:13 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
The premiere of the children´s performance "The mysterious world and the Fuzzies" was played by Romathan theatre. The fairy-tale inscenation offers to the audience the look into the imaginative world of the forest kingdom, reigned by the queen "Bachtaľori". In a fairy tale a young spectator reveals the secrets of a good and love on a background of an evil and intrigues being enacted both in a Mysterious world, as well as in a world of humans. The genre: a fairy-tale with a songs;The language of performance: Slovak primary, Romani secondary; The scenery: classical stage properties, the play is not interactive, but performative. Cast: Karel Adam, Oto Bunda, Milan Godla, Marián Balog, and others.
category: fine arts
tags: secular digital artistic photography Romathan general audience internal
Romathan Newly Dressed
created: 06. 12. 2018 22:57 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
The 65th premiere of Romathan Theatre was marked as in "a new dress". Musical and dance performance was linked with a traditional Romani psalms and dances, which are the carriers of a deep idea of Romani inner feelings and felowship and which bring the audience to the world of Roma (music, dance, singing). The orchestral background of the performance has its own separate outputs, which shows the interconnection and the multiculturalism of the nations in Europe.
category: fine arts
tags: secular digital artistic photography Romathan general audience internal
Romathan - The Magic Bell
created: 06. 12. 2018 22:46 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Photos from the original Roma stageing for children and teenagers. The drama points to the importance of family and good family relationships. Choreography was done by Eva Adamová, music by Karel Adam, directed by Marián Balog. It was the 69th premiere, which took place in theater on 18.3.2016.
category: fine arts
tags: secular digital artistic photography Romathan general audience internal
Romathan - Love Lost
created: 06. 12. 2018 10:35 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Photos from a feature-length production called Love Lost. The drama is from the 19th century, it takes place in the Roumanian environment and shows the relationship of nomadic Roma with the Count. The author and director of the play is Žaneta Štipáková, a soloist of the Romathan Theater. It was the 74th premiere, which took place in the theater on April 20, 2018.
category: fine arts
tags: secular digital artistic photography Romathan general audience internal
