2017
Keeping craft alive
Monika Váleková
Through her work, artist Mária Krajčová has been purposefully reviving wire craft for more than two decades. Being inspired by old wire products and techniques, she brings to light the varied decorative elements, using them in a novel way and making them more varied through combining them with metal plates and stone. As a result, they take on a new appearance. While meticulously adhering to artistic and craft purity in relation to particular work of art, she transforms these products into both everyday items and works of art. In this interview, Mária Krajčová reminisced about significant personalities and events that had a profound effect on her artistic journey.
Further articles in the magazine Craft, Art, Design 02/2017:
- Outstanding Slovak phenomenon
- Karol Guleja’s heritage
- Wire craft in the Museum of Folk Art Production
- Dreaming of Drotária map
- Seventy eventful years
- Jozef Zoller: Dodko Drôtik (Little Wire) becoming master
- Milan Kočtúch: shepherd in heart
- Heritage of the Jurovatý family
- Research into wire craft in Slovakia
- From thread to wire
- Tradition or design?
- Keeping craft alive
- There is a dress, and then there is a dress...
- Art making intertwined with life
- How can be drawings embodied in space
- Thin Black Lines
- Works of art as pleasing as Belgium chocolate