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Andrea Bartošová
Participation in missions:
MKK002
Artist’s Pages:
Mail: andylevel3@post.sk
Year/Place of Birth: 1977 - Levice - SR
Education: VSVU in Bratislava, Department of Painting and Other Media- 4th Studio (I.Csudai)
Andrea (Andy) Bartosova is a nice creature (as a painter and as a human being). Her persistent artistic experimenting and significant shifts in her own creation (which are so typical for her) originate somewhere in her pleasure of discovering and “grasping” her own favorite themes from daily real life – as well as in her essential fascination by the transformational abilities of painting. “A. Bartosova has an admirable facility of expression and impetuosity that are immediately translated into gestures and colours used in drawing and painting.” “The ratio of filled in and blank planes is very important: the areas that separate one area from another and make them more comprehensible in the process.”
“Painting is a narrative process. It is not the topic and the title that are important; the narration itself, and the theme are often “an opportunity to artistic creation of painting – which is a physical activity.” (zJO)
Before fully entering the media of painting, she went through stages of space geometry, restoration and interference with reality (offset painting, hyper-realistic bases), and its direct utilization (templates, patterns of different trifles). A series of auto-portraits was followed by her interest in expressive abilities of human face, after which Bartosova’ s theme line shifted to poly-figurative compositions- anonymous stationary figures, and after that, to groups of dynamic and active statuettes. Even though her paintings changed their geometrical formation, they never lost their expressive power and their own hidden narrative capacity. Although the artist, in her own words, is trying to avoid narration, we can spot a similar vague emotionality, or story telling capacity in her paintings with “soft” architectural or technical details.
SINGLE EXHIBITIONS
2008 Bratislava (Andrea Bartosova, Bonjour Apollo BC)
2007 Levice (3x Painting, Dobo’s Manor)
2006 Bratislava (Workshop 001- with M. Czinege and J. Mrva, Tranzit Studios)
2006 Bratislava (Triple, Guba Gallery)
2006 Kurim (B.I.O. Sentiment, Ad Astra Gallery)
2004 Bratislava (Andrea Bartosova and Michal Czinege, SNM, Museum of Hungarians in Slovakia)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Bratislava (Painting 2008, Hall of the Ministry of Culture of SR)
2007 Bratislava (Find 10 Differences, Space Gallery)
2007 Bratislava (Small Scales, Gallery Kressling)
2007 Bratislava (Painting 2007, Clarists’ Church)
2006 Zilina- State Gallery in Banska Bystrica, M.P. Bohun Gallery in Liptovsky
2006 Mikulas, Gallery at a Golden Ring in Prague (Draught)
2006 Trnava (Young Painting- A. Bartosova, M. Cernusak, M. Gaberova, J. Mrva, Jan Koniarek Gallery)
2006 Bratislava (Painting 2006, Clarists’ Church)
2006 Zlin (4th Zlin Saloon of Youth, The Hall of Art)
2006 Bratislava (Mrvova, Bartosova, Czinege, Guba Gallery)
2006 Bratislava (For Some Seeds Food is the End of Their Journey, Transit Studios)
2005 Bratislava (Forever Hungry, Transit Studios)
2004 Brno (Svetliny, Na Bidylku Gallery)
2003 Bratislava (Paradiso Perduto- Laco Teren and his guests- Andrea Bartosova and Michal Czinege, Slovak National Museum)
2002 Wolsburg (VSVU, Wolfsburg Gallery)
