Music - its Resonances and Creators
In 2016, works with a musical theme called Music, its Resonances and Creators were exhibited.
In 2016, works with a musical theme called Music, its Resonances and Creators were exhibited.
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EXPOSITION PERIOD
May 2016 - December 2016
NUMBER OF EXHIBITED WORKS
48 sculptures, 47 medals, 46 reliefs
Ján Kulich's talent, awakened at an early age, relied on his living contact with the family traditions, where song and music were the basic essence of life. His talent was continually surrounded by the lively pulsation of traditions in his native Zvolenská Slatina. He grew up in an environment where song, music and tradition were vibrant. There was a lot he didn't need to discover, however, later he ventured alone to the very source to gain much more. It became his need, as well as the content of his search. His work went in different directions and received various social impulses. Although he used various techniques, forms and materials, his attachment to the stimuli of traditions and their representatives became his fate for a full 70 years of creative search.
In 2016 works with a musical theme called Music - its Resonances and Creators were exhibited in the gallery in Zvolenská Slatina.
In addition to portraiture and figural works, depicting the legends of Slovak folk culture today - Rinaldo Oláh, fujara players Martin Sanitrár and uncle Kubinec, bagpiper Michelík and phenomenal choreographer Juraj Kubánka - visitors could also find compositions by musicians from Čierny Balog, Hrochoť and Orava, fujara players, dancers and bagpipe players. There was also a collection of medals created for the anniversaries of the Folklore Festival in Detva, a set of original cast medals for the competition of folk instrument makers, Instrumentum Excellens, as well as many others.
The portrait of Alexander Moyzes, the sketch of the world-famous Luciano Pavarotti, the first competition design for the memorial of Ján Levoslav Bella from 1952, the collection of small sculptures of African musicians, inspired by the trip to Egypt and Guinea in 1968. For the first time, a set of cast bronze plaques with portraits of 45 world composers was exhibited, the last completed work by Ján Kulich.
"Kulich's talent of a visual artist who perfectly masters and chooses art techniques and genres has become a stimulus for a wide range of Slovak music, film, stage and dance productions. I see many of Sveťo Stračina's works as an example of such an influence. Anyone who knows both, Kulich‘s and Stračina‘s work facing the national culture and traditions, will notice their mutual influences and inspirations. "
"... Such a wide range of means of expression in Kulich is a reflexionion of restless intellect and Leonardo's search. He knows the past too well and intimately and secrets of his craft, its true values, conquests and technique, to renounce them headlessly in the name of snobbish avant-gardism and go the way of cheap shocking of spectators."
"Kulich is a significant sculptor for the fusion of aesthetics and values, a typical representative of the basic tendency of Slovak modern art in all genres, that is, a happy unification of folk and universal impulses. With Kulich, folklore is transcended by humanity."
