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
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
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
Jozef Fečo - Drawing the Portrait
created: 21. 12. 2017 15:11 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
The video documents Jozef Fečo's artwork - drawing the portrait. The person portrayed is a prominent Romani personality - a physician, a co-founder of the International Romani Union, a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001, MUDr. Ján Cibuľa, originally from Klenovec. Jozef Fečo (1993 -) is an artist of Romani origin from Kračúnovce, district of Svidník. He graduated from the Secondary School of Arts in Prešov, specialization in design and wood curving. Material: hard paper, A2. Technique: coal drawing combined with white and black tempera. Music by: Duo Farsa, Jozef Fečo.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic in persona drawing Slovak Jozef Fečo general audience internal
Jozef Fečo - the process of painting
created: 02. 08. 2017 16:49 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Jozef Fečo paints a portrait. The video documents the process of painting the said portrait. The portayed person is Joaquín Cortes, the dancer (ballet, flamenco, fusion of dancing styles), born in 1969 in Spain, well-know through his successful cooperation with many stars of current popular culture. Format: 120 cm in width, 100 cm in height. Painted on gypsum plasterboard. Technique: painting, black - grey - white colour spectrum. Style: pop-art. The work is a part of the series of thirteen portraits of popular, world-known personalities of the Romani origin, produced in the framework of the priority project supported by the Ministry of Culture of SR, named The Live Books: A Word - A Picture - Sound, painted in the period of 2015/04 - 2015/05.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Slovak Jozef Fečo general audience internal
