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Blažej Baláž
Born October 29, 1958 (1958-10-29) (age 51)
Nevoľné, Slovakia
Nationality Slovak
Field Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Sculpture, performance & event
Training Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava
Movement Neo-conceptual art, Postminimalism, Post-Geo and Post Radical Painting

Blažej Baláž (born October 29, 1958, in Nevoľné, Slovakia, former Czechoslovakia) is a contemporary Slovak artist. His practise as an artist is usually associated with Neo-conceptualism, Postminimalism, Post-Geo and Post Radical Painting. After 1988 he began working with text as art, neo-conceptual and post-conceptual texts (intext, outtext).

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Life and work

Baláž studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava and his Magister of Fine Arts degree received in 1983. Baláž is also known as a teacher at the University of Trnava, since 1999, he has been Head of Department of Fine Arts Education. Founder member of the artists group East of Eden (1998). Since 1979, he has been married to the artist Maria Balazova. He lives and works in Trnava.

He has shown work internationally in exhibitions including the Drawing 1990, Provo, USA (1990), Vth International Drawing Triennale, Wrocław (1992), 12th International Biennale of Small Sculpture, Murska Sobota (1995), International Biennale of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana (1989, 1995, 1999), Object / Object. Prague, Czech Museum of Fine Arts (2001), Intertext / From the conceptual to postconceptual text, Ján Koniarek Gallery, Trnava (2009)[1], Formats of Transformation 89 – 09 / Seven views on the new Czech and Slovak identity, House of Art, Brno (2009).

Solo exhibitions (retrospective): Geld macht Kunst, Ján Koniarek Gallery, Trnava (2003) [2], Blažej Baláž Texts 1988/2007, The East Slovak Gallery, Košice (2007), Museum of Fine Arts, Žilina (2007), SUCHARATOLEST House of Art, Bratislava (2009), WARTEZEIT, Slowakisches Institut Wien (2009).

His works are held in the public collections of Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, National Gallery in Prague (CZ), Muzeum Archidiecezjalne, Katowice (PL), Fries Museum, Leeuwarden (NL), Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava [3], East Slovakian Gallery Košice, City Gallery [4], Bratislava, Central Slovakian Gallery, Banská Bystrica [5].

Works

  • Mechanical Paradise (1988/1990)
  • HROBONJOUR (1992) [6]
  • Artwart (1997) [7]
  • Skarabeus (1997) [8] [9]
  • Memory 2 / Unpowdered painting (1998)
  • Mandala 4 / Black (1997/2000) [10]
  • Geld macht frei (2001) [11]
  • Mandala 5 (2001) [12]
  • Poppy Seed Field (2001/02)- Monochrome painting [13]
  • Mandala 15 (2003) [14]
  • GODSAVEUS (2003) [15]
  • The Art of kill (2004) [16]
  • WETRUSTIN (2004-07)
  • Treptomachia.EN – A / How to domesticate the English language (2005/06)
  • Treptomachia.DE – B / How to domesticate the German language (2006)
  • WARTERAUM (2007)
  • WARTEZEIT (2007)
  • SUCHARATOLEST (2008)
  • SLOVENSKY (2006/09)
  • BESTEHLEN (2007/09)[17]
  • BESTOCKEN (2007/09)

Books, catalogues

  • VALOCH, J. – VARTECKÁ, A. 2003. Blažej Baláž. Trnava : Trnava University, East of Eden, 132 p. (In English and Slovak) ISBN 80-89074-22-7
  • BESKID, V. – GAJDOŠ, R. 2007. Blažej Baláž : TEXTS 1988 /2007. Trnava : East of Eden, Trnava University, 48 p. (In English and Slovak) ISBN 80-8082-129-6

References

Further reading

  • ž.u.m.(= URRA MUENA, Ž.).1992. Blažej Baláž. In Saur Allgemeines Künstler – Lexikon, band 6. Mϋnchen, Leipzig : K.G.Saur. (D)
  • BARTOŠOVÁ, Z. 1995. Blažej Baláž. In 12th International Biennial of Small Sculpture. Murska Sobota : Galerija Murska Sobota, p.158-159 (SL)
  • GERŽOVÁ, J. 1999. Junk art. In Dictionary of World and Slovak Fine Art in the 2nd half of the 20th century. Bratislava : Kruh súčasného umenia Profil, p.285
  • VRBANOVÁ, A. 2000. New Form in Graphic Art. In RUSINOVÁ, Z. et al. 2000. Art of the 20th century. Bratislava : SNG, p. 114-116
  • VALOCH, J. 2001. The Connotation of Powdered Painting. In Ateliér, vol.14, no.6, 22.3.2001, p.9, Prague (CZ)
  • BESKID, V. 2003. Geld macht Kunst. Macht Kunst Geld? In Profil, vol. X, no.2/2003, p.128-131
  • ADAM, R. – ROBERTSON, C. 2007. Intaglio. London : Thames & Hudson, p.29 (UK)
  • BÖHMEROVÁ, Z. – JANČÁR, I. 2007. Slovak Graphics of the 20th Century. Bratislava : Municipal Gallery, 2007, p. 195, 285, 304, 312
  • BARTOŠOVÁ, Z. 2007. 20th Century. In Kol. aut.. 2007. Umenie na Slovensku / Stručné dejiny obrazov. Bratislava : Slovart, p. 224
  • GAJDOŠ, R. 2008. The projection of linguistic thinking to contemporary fine arts.. In SCHNEIDER, J. – KRAUSOVA, L. 2008 (eds). Intermediality: Word – image – sound. Olomouc : University of J. E. Palacký, 334 p. [p. 223-229] (CZ)
  • VALOCH, J. 2009. Venice In-Between Geometry and Concept. Ateliér, vol.22, no.18, p.4, 10.9.2009 (CZ)
  • GERŽOVÁ, B. 2009. From plaster to chewing gum – Author´s techniques, Nitra : Nitra Gallery, p.5, 9, 44, 45
  • BESKID, V. 2009. From a Political Space toward a Public One. In KOWOLOWSKI, F. (ed.) 2009. Formats of Transformation 89 – 09 / Seven views on the new Czech and Slovak identity. Brno : House of Art, p.14 – 17, 200 (CZ)

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