Juraj Bartusz


Juraj Bartusz (*1933) is a Slovak neo-avant-garde artist, known for his time-space sculptures and unconventional approach to sculpture and objects from the mid-1960s to the present day. The wide spectrum of the artist’s work includes constructivist sculpture, printmaking, performance, action and conceptual art, site-specific and spatial installations. In 1972 he started working with the computer in cooperation with computer programmer Vladimir Haltenberger. He used computer-generated curves as a template for the production of rotating sculptures evoking the human figure. In the 1980s he began working with the element of time, creating time-limited paintings and drawings, and shaping his works with bold interventions, such as throwing bricks into hardening plaster or applying materials to canvas and paper by hitting the surface with wooden beams or rubber straps, referencing to the energy of the artist’s gesture.
In the 1960s, he was a member of the Concrete Artists Club (known as Concrete art). From 1990 to 1999, he was a head professor of art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, and in 1999, he initiated the establishment of the Department of Art and Media of the Technical University in Košice. He created many significant monuments across Slovakia, and was awarded numerous prizes.


Exhibitions

SELECTION 2

08 Dec 2023 - 31 Jan 2024

Comma first selection

11 Sep 2023 - 30 Sep 2023