Vernisáž | Veronika Rónaiová: Časová špirála

We invite you to open the exhibition of Veronika Rónai's time spiral on Wednesday, September 3 at 18.00.

"I am not Saint Theresa, I am not even Blessed Ludovica, I am the current Slovak painter."

The time spiral exhibition presents the latest selection of works by Veronika Rónai, in which the author returns to her own history - both personal and artistic - and transforms it into new visual structures. The image remains the main medium, but this time it leads a dialogue with the past that does not let - with images of female identity, corporeality and everyday reality, which she captured at a time when it was not obvious to speak openly. It is a selection of older and new works that combine distinctive color and determining painting. Painting is not only a medium, but also an act of continuity, memory and self -expression. The seemingly glamor aesthetics is subjected to a critical distance and irony. On the walls of the gallery is a large -format collage - the author's composition, in which fragments of paintings, drawings and photostylism are connected to one visual whole with the characteristic layering of time. memory. It creates an exceptional space in which personal mythologies are connected with broader cultural and social meanings. 1966 - 70 bonded at the Secondary School in Bratislava 1966 - 1970 in the Studio of Arranging (prof. Rudolf Fila). At the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava she started studying at the Volná graphics Department (prof. Vincent Hložník). 1977 on the recommendation of prof. Ján Želibský receives a full scholarship. Until 1989 she worked as an artist in a freelance. She participated in collective exhibitions at home and abroad and organized several authorial projects. Since 1989 she has been teaching at the J. Vydru SSUP and the SVŠT at the Department of Architecture. In 2001 she habilitated at VŠUP in Prague at the associate professor in the field of painting. 2003 - 2020 led the Studio of Painting at the Department of Animation of the Fine Arts of the PF Trnava University. She exhibited at home and abroad, 1999 at the Venetian Biennale, 2007 in Bari at the exhibition of Slovak Fine Arts, 2011 in the Ludwig of the Museum in Budapest at the International Exhibition of Hyperrealism. It is represented in collections at home and abroad - SNG, GMB, PGA and GJK. Veronika Rónaiová works with a concept as an ideal in art through the medium of figural painting and drawings, faithful to the hyperalistic method of painting based on photorealism. Since the beginning of the zero years of the 21st century, her painting "... increasingly integrates time and space (social, personal, artistic) and also a new post -conceptual style of painting" (Alena Vrbanová). It uses a multiple transcript, layering of painting in the shift of time and circumstances, and also increases its meaning intertextuality. Her paintings respond to social reality, to the world of art, its history, his institutional predestination, but also to her own art against the background of everyday social reality. For her work since the 1990s, the expansion of the limits of hanging painting is a typical strategy in terms of the method of creation of image units, where individual paintings have their story and act as parts of "puzzles" composed of various artistic and extra -art. Godálová
Vernissage: 3. 9. At 6 pm
4. 9. - 17. 10. 2025

White & Weiss Gallery, Grösslingová 50, 811 09 Bratislava
Tuesday - Friday, 13.00 - 18.00, closed during public holidays