It is most often associated with Art Nouveau-which spread from France to other countries that included Britain and the United States-and Jugendstil, the German version of Art Nouveau. The creation of the Union Austrian Arts was meant as a means of exploring and displaying contemporary art that embraced various aesthetics while reevaluating historical styles. Begun by notable artists and architects Gustav Klimt, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Koloman Moser, and Josef Hoffman among others who had been part of the Association of Austrian Arts, the group founded the Union of Austrian Artists (now known as the Vienna Secession) in 1897. In 20, he was a finalist for the Young Visual Artist Award, in 2015 winner of Tatrabanka Award for Art, in 2017 winner of NOVUM Foundation Prize for contemporary art.Įxhibition supported by the Slovak Arts Council and by the Czech Centre in Bucharest.Like many styles in the late 19th through 20th centuries, the Vienna Secession was a rejection of the traditional conservative style that was prevalent throughout art, architecture, and design. He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad, including Where do we go from here? at the Vienna Secession (2010), Public Folklore at the Grazer Kunstverein in Graz (2011), Delete at the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava (2012), Vulnerable Failures at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul (2013), City Diary at the Triangle Arts Association in New York (2013), Dysraphic City at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien in Berlin (2013), When Artists Speak Truth at The 8th Floor Gallery in New York (2016), Prague Biennale 6 (2013), Bucharest Biennale 7 (2016), In Someone’s Else Dream at SODA Gallery in Bratislava (2017) and many others.Īs an artist in residence, Varga has worked at Museums Quartier 21 (Vienna), Futura (Prague), Heppen Transfer (Warsaw), AIR Krems, Center for Art and Architecture ZK/U (Berlin), Triangle Arts Association (New York), and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul), among others. He earned a master’s degree and doctorate from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, and also participated in student exchanges at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw and Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania in the USA. Jaro Varga is a Slovak visual artist and curator based in Prague. He illustrates the various interconnections between the objects, moments, situations, or places that he finds or consciously seeks out by working with both their form and content. His range of interest encompasses geopolitical topography, the production and archiving of knowledge, social faux pas, and forgotten moments in history. Varga explores more than just one field of study. He enjoys seeking out subtle details of what is lost, and systematically looks after what is just being born. 1982) is a commentator on creation and destruction. Sun and rain, symbols of division, penetration and pervasion, knives, spears, arrows, phalluses and torches, furs, birds, aeroplanes, light, illumination, lit-up faces, crowns, halos, blinding light, judges, priests, doctors – all this appears as another image of the father which must disappear so it can persevere. It is an image of power, knowledge, armies, wars, politics, history, legends, cities, libraries, books, schools, forests and borders, it is an image of masculine characters and objects which are to execute a liberation of spirit from matter, as a manifestation of intellect and rationality, as well as expanded consciousness and spirituality. Missing Something and Itself Missing is a subjective and intimate insight by the author – at loss, at absence, gap and the unexplained as constituent principles of the relationship of the real versus the archetypal image of the father.
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