Jan Fekete

Jan Fekete (born August 20, 1958 in Bratislava , Czechoslovakia ) is a Slovak artist .

Life

Fekete studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava , the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , from which he received his diploma in 1990.

Since 1990 he has been working as a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, where he received his university lectureship in 1996. 1994–95 he had a teaching position at the MKL Visuelle Mediengestaltung, University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Jan Fekete is one of the leading exponents of geometric and abstract tendencies in Slovak art. He works in Vienna and Bratislava.

Solo exhibitions (excerpt)

• 1991 Majernika Gallery, Bratislava
• 1993 Gallery of Modern Art, Žilina
• 1994 Vojtech Löffler Museum, Košice
• 1995 and 1996 Galerie Gerulata, Bratislava (with Nick de Vries / USA and Milos Boda / SK)
• 2000 City Gallery Bratislava ; Laser scans Palais Palffy ; Modern Art Gallery, Žilina
• 2001 the self personality show # 5, KulturAXE Vienna
• 2006 Destruction of the area Galerie Steinek , Vienna
• 2009 Room dimensions Via Galéria, Bratislava
• 2009 Light sculpture Universe 1-3 permanent installation, Stadthalle Vienna
• 2009 Stars of the Wr. Stadthalle , oil painting series, Stadthalle Vienna

Holdings

• 1996 Enter , Passage Gallery, Künstlerhaus Wien , (with S.Buban and S.Filko)
• 2005 Überland , Stadtgalerie - Association for the Promotion of Bidleden Art Vienna (with A.Piller and C.Zillner);
• 2006 Gallery Atrium, Prešov (with Stano Buban)

Publicly owned works and collections

• 1987 Acquisition, Zentralsparkasse Wien
• 1987 Winner of the art competition "Vienna can be seen"
• and purchase, Landesorg.Wien, SPÖ
• 1987 Acquisition, Tobacco Museum, Vienna
• 1990 Acquisition, Natural Science Museum, Munich
• 1994 acquisition by the city of Vienna
• 2000 1st prize and purchase, Int. Flag competition "Art without borders"

Bibliography (excerpt)

• “B&F”, Buban & Fekete, Radislav Matustik, Kultúrny zivot, 1991;
• “Jan Fekete, Painting in Space”, Profile, Vladimir Beskid, 1994;
• “Jan Fekete, Nick de Vries”, Vladimir Beskid, catalog, Galerie Gerulata, 1995;
• “Event in the East”, Beata Jablonská, National Gallery Bratislava;
• “Der Grenzgänger”, Thomas Prlic, Falter 18/04, 2004;
• “Jan Fekete”, Vienna Connections, City, 2004;
• “Slovak contemporary painters” ISBN 8080851336 , SLOVART, KPMG, ANJavan, 2006;
• 2007 figurama 07 "Jan Fekete" ISBN 80-903346-5-2 .
• Figurama, book, cover Jan Fekete, 2008;
• Close Encounters, Vienna * Bratislava * Budapest, catalog book, “Jan Fekete, Swedish Landscape III”, 2008
• "Tolerance in Art", contemporary art from Slovakia and Hungary, book, Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum ;
• Book Osemdesiate / The 80s, Slovak National Gallery ISBN 9788080591403 .
• Book 'Hranice Geometrie - Borders of Geometry', Geometric and constructive tendencies in Slovak Art form 1960 to the present, published by PETUM sro Bratislava. Akcia Zobraz ISBN 9788097016012
• World Dictionary and Slovak Art of the Second Half of the 20th Century, Jana Geržová, ISBN 9788096828302 , (Slovník svetového a slovenského výtvarného umenia druhej polovice 20. storočia)

criticism

• “If you look at Jan Fekete's previous oeuvre, you can see up to ten different approaches and efforts in his work on 'Painting in Space'. But Jan Fekete also claims the opposite pole to the gestural from the informal painterly approach ... Wieland Schmid wrote the formulation: 'Controlled spontaneity - emotional calculation'. It is precisely in this area of ​​tension of the greatest opposites that Jan Fekete moves despite all his independence. I only want to name a few contemporary painters as examples for others who also go this way: Emilio Vedova, Frank Stella and Hans Hoffmann. " . Prof. Jürgen Reipka , Munich, 1996
• His approach is unique in Slovakia, at most comparable to the concept of the trio Stano Filko, Milos Laky and Jan Zavarsky - "White room in white room" (1973-74), where the aim was to demonstrate a room by depersonalizing the painting an "infinite" area. Fekete doesn't paint pictures. He "does the painting". Vladimir Beskid, Kosice / SK, 1994

Web links

• Jan Fekete at artfacts.net
• Jan Fekete on Twincityjournal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jan Fekete on KulturAxe ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ http://www.kedykam.sk/article/1000574768/jan_fekete_paralely_priestorovych_dimenzii.html
3. ↑ Yvonne Strujic: KulturAXE Vienna. In: Österreichischer Rundfunk . May 3, 2010, accessed February 9, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ http://www.kunstaspekte.de/vladimir-beskid/
6. ↑ http://www.kunstaspekte.de/vladimir-beskid/
7. ↑ http://www.podzemni-antikvariat.cz/detail/umeni/view-pohl-ad-slovak-contemporary-painters  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ http://www.kunstaspekte.de/vladimir-beskid/