2006 Participating Artists > Peter Pollag

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Refer Pollag belongs to the generarion that ‘entered’ the art scene in the mid 1930’s. In spite of different points of departure and later development this generation shared a major phenomenon: immediacy and a spontaneous vigour associated closely with the anticipation of the end of an era, and a sensitive approach to the events of the surrounding world. An important moment in the development of Peter Pollag who was trained in Bratislava, was his studies at the Academy of Perugia, Paris, Madrid and Prague where he came into direct contact with new art streams and acquired an intimate knowledge of the heritage of the old masters. This sensitive immediate relationship to the present and the historical, to the modern and the classical was reflected in the choice of means of expression and technique, and in the meaning and content of his work. It became a determining factor for his entire oeuvre. Moreover, at the end of the millennium, this relationship ranked him among the 'cultural nomads' who exceed the borders of styles, historical periods and territories in order to creatively handle our heritage. Pollag works with a strikingly dramatic expression and distinctively stylised form, a characteristic painting gesture and dynamic drawing emphasising the artist's exceptional colourist qualities. The artist’s pictures, prints, miniature book-plate and illustrations offer a unique view of man and the world... Although his world is once contemporary, distant, real or imaginary. he has the vision of a sensitive observer, thinker and philosopher. His oeuvre seems to be a coded chronicle of mankind, an allegory of ideals and generations as well as a warning against the power of evil, a mirror of eternal struggle of liie and death, of lasting values and nothingness. Marie Horvathova |