Tribute to Valéria Z. Benáčková by Irena Pišútová
Valéria Benáčková (1925) is, without exaggerating, the leading person among the female glass painters. As a teacher of drawing by occupation, she had strong feelings for art. Therefore, she got interested in the old Slovak folk glass paintings in the late 1970s. She did not make reproductions of old glass paintings, but she transformed traditional motives according to her own creative style. She entered the glass painting art with the specific style of her.
Valéria Benáčková was not raised in the folk or rural environment. She does not pretend to be part of it, but she is very much interested in it and has it in her paintings. She is not a folk artist. She is a visual artist who is skilled in all types of glass painting and in folk traditions. The exhibition presenting her lifelong work is open for general public in the ÚĽUV Gallery until 11 September 2010.
Further articles magazine Craft, Art, Design 03/2010:
- Designed for future...
- Complexity keeps one attentive
- Lipa/Lime
- The jubilee of the doyen of the folk art production
- Tribute to Valéria Z. Benáčková
- Vít Pieš
- Eva Kramplová – „glued“ to clay
- Miloslav Orságh
- Metal governs my work
- Inspiration from paper – object and jewellery
- INTRO
- Wire and plate
- Surprising inspirations by tradition
- Two graduation projects from the Innovation studio at the Design department of the FU TU in Košice
