Faces of Rurban Mobility of Slovak Artists (preliminary study)












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            * Michaela Rudyjová
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            Abstrakt

            This paper focuses on the phenomenon of the mobility of artists from the city to the count
            context of rurbanization. It examines contemporary forms of artistic mobility that tend to
            of inspiration for artists, but at the same time also a stimulus for the general

            processes of rurbanization. The paper presents a preliminary investigation in terms of thr
            The first one concerns Fero Guldan, a freelance visual artist, writer, sculptor, and paint
            one focuses on Andrej Dúbravský, currently one of the most outstanding young Slovak visual

            third case study deals with the Zaježová community, located in a widely spread-out village
            different forms of artistic activities. Research relied on the snowball method to extensiv

            mobility of Slovak artists. The paper brings up such questions as what were the artists’ m
            leaving the city and moving to the countryside; if and how mobility affected their manner 
            creation, the nature of their works of art (types of artefacts, topics, or colours), and t

            these works of art are distributed (for example, changing concepts of exhibitions) and rec
            and attitudes of audiences); and what are the forms of artist associations (groups, commun
            if all three of the cases have their own particularities, we can see that all but one of t

            are changing. Painting techniques, topics, and colours have changed, as have the concepts 
            art, but forms of association do not seem to be affected much by moving to the countryside
            the Zaježová community has broken the binary opposition of urban vs. rural by creating a f

            associations that go beyond the pub/café split.

            Klíčová slova

            Central Europe; rurbanization; visual arts

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