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ROZALIJA MARKOV (1956-)


Member of the Kovacica Naïve Art Gallery


ONE OF THE GREATEST REPRESENTATIVE OF KOVACICA SCHOOL OF NAIVE ART

Kovacica is one of the most famous Slovak communities abroad. Most of its inhabitants still speak Slovak, wear traditional folk costumes, and celebrate typical folk events. They have captured these traditions in their pictures, which have traveled the world and can be found in the private collections of the Spanish King Juan Carlos, the Dutch Queen Julianna, Ronald Reagan, Francois Mitterrand, Franco Nero, Alain Delon, the Rolling Stones, and many other celebrities, most of whom have visited the town.

Rozalija Markov is Naive Art Painter of Hungarian origin. She was born March 16, 1956 in Stari Lec (Yugoslavia). Started painting in 1985 and from then she had more than 200 solo and group exhibitions . She took part in many humanitarian fund-raising. Her paintings are in the museums, galleries and private collections all over the world.

JAN BACUR (1937-)

Jan Bacur is naive painter of Slovak origin. He was born October 22, 1937 in Padina (village close to Kovacica, Serbia), a city founded in 1806 by Slovaks from the region of Novohrad.


Member of the Kovacica Naïve Art Gallery

His parents were farmers, like all the Slovaks who came to the region to work the land and brought spiritual wealth of their country of origin. Jan Bacuri has inherited his talent from his mother that decorated the walls of the houses in Padina. In his childhood he was fascinated by painting and developed his talent in the secondary school Kovacica. There, as a schoolboy he saw the works of naive artists known, and this gave him more strength and determination to continue in that direction. Thanks to his talent, highlighted by participation in a collective Padina, at the age of 13 years. In October Kovacica exhibited for the first time in 1962, as a guest. In 1985 he became a full member of the Art Gallery of Naïve Kovacica. Since then he has behind him 28 individual exhibitions in his country and abroad, and was also a participation in many colonies of artists. "I paint slowly and quietly. I do my best to make known to the younger generations how people lived and worked in the past." The subject of his work is connected with the roads and fields of his native hills. The accuracy of the rural architecture of his native country is remarkable. His paintings reflect the conserved and ancient traditions, the beauty and spirit of old times. The spirit of citizenship is still clearly indicated on the Slovak national costume of the people portrayed.

"Winter" by Zuzana Chalupova
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ZUZANA CHALUPOVA
(1925-2001)



The World famous Naive Art painter from Kovacica

Zuzana Chalupova may not have founded Kovacica's naïve art scene, but she was certainly its foremost member. She was once taken to the Louvre Museum in Paris to view the world's great works of art. As she approached Leonardo's Mona Lisa, Zuzana's French hosts asked her what she thought of the painting. After gazing at Da Vinci's masterpiece for some time, she waved her hand flippantly and said: "Leonardo could have done better!"...The following day Le Figaro printed this statement over an entire page and ran a large photograph of the unusual female artist from the Banat village of Kovacica; she wore a kerchief wrapped around her head and had ten wide underskirts, as colorful as Easter eggs. The following day, the Paris gallery that was displaying her paintings was packed with visitors.



Those who knew her called her Mama Zuzana. She had a captivating effect wherever she happened to hold an exhibition – be it Paris, Tokyo, Brussels or Vienna. She was also a favorite of photographers and cameramen; Mama Zuzana took the art world like a hurricane, carrying the fame of Kovacica's naïve art the world over…



Many national and international celebrities visited Kovacica to meet these naïve art painters and to view their works. The visitors included such luminaries as François Mitterrand, legendary football player Pele, Ursula Andres, Alain Delon, Juan Carlos, Mstislav Rostropovich, Franco Nero... In 1989, some rather strange visitors knocked on Zuzana Chalupova's front door. They were an odd bunch who dressed and acted rather differently; they called themselves the Rolling Stones and were led by a certain Mick Jagger!



"The extremely colorful naive-style paintings recall children's works and fairy-tale illustrations. Admired by professional artists, they are a cute look at the world,"
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PAVEL CICKA (1961-)


Member of the Kovacica Naïve Art Gallery

Pavel Cicka is a painter of Naïve art. He is a member of famous "Kovacica trio", together with Pavel Hajko and Marci Markov.


Pavel Cicka was born 1961 in Kovacica.Member of Naive Art Galleries in Kovacica became in 1986. year. He had many solo and group exhibitions. his works often portray idyllic landscape of Banat, building a convincing impression of space. His favorite scenes from the shore of the river, but frequent motifs were village musicians, fall field work, vineyards, horses ...

Apart from Serbia, he have exhibited in Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, France, Japan, America, Mexico, Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria, Italy ... His paintings are in museums, galleries and private collections around the world.

ALZBETA CIZIKOVA (1936-)


Member of the Kovacica Naïve Art Gallery


ONE OF THE GREATEST REPRESENTATIVE OF KOVACICA SCHOOL OF NAIVE ART

Alzbeta Cizikova is naive painter of Slovak origin. She was born in 1936 in Kovacica (Serbia)



Her persistence and devotion to the art of painting, her consistency in accessing a work of fine arts, helped her remaining an encyclopedic significant name until today. So far, she has over 1,000 paintings, which got her many awards and recognitions (like the Award at the 6th Biennial in Jagodina, in Lisbon, Belgrade, the Medal of Amsterdam, the Award for the complete artistic work at the 9th Biennial of Naive Art in Jagodina). She had over 50 single and hundreds of group exhibitions all over the world.


The figures on her paintings aren't identical (which is often the case at naive art painters), but each character is unique, portrayed in its own way She has exhibited in 51 solo exhibitions and over 800 group exhibitions in the former Yugoslavia and abroad

JAN GLOZIK (1957-)

Jan Glozik is naive painter of Slovak origin. He was born in 1957 in small town of Kovacica (Serbia).

Member of the Kovacica Naïve Art Gallery

While attending school he often visited the exhibitions of Kovacica's famous naive art painters, such as Martin Jonas, Martin Paluska, Zuzana Chalupova and others. After viewing those beautiful paintings, he wanted and tried to make painting of his own. He couldn't manage it by him self, because he did not know the technique of preparing the canvas, oil colors, etc. After few years of trying to find his own artistic impression, he went to Zuzana Chalupova for help. She helped him gladly, and showed him the technique of preparing oil colors and canvas.

At the beginning of 1975, he made his first painting named “Going out to field”. In the middle of 1980’s he had his first exhibition. First collective exhibition was in Kovacica in 1989. He was admitted to Kovacica naive art council in 1989.

The themes on his works are often peasants, their work in field or yard, customs related to holydays from life of Slovaks who came in these parts of country two hundred years ago in search of better life. He had over 50 solo and collective exhibitions in country and foreign by now. He lives with his family in Kovacica.

PAVEL HAJKO (1952-)


Member of the Kovacica Naïve Art Gallery

Pavel Hajko is a painter of Naïve art. He is a member of famous "Kovacica trio", together with Pavel Cicka and Marci Markov.


Hajko was born in 1952 in Kovacica. In 1970 he finished high school, professional woodworking craft. His talent was noticed by Martin Jonas. And 'constantly engaged in painting since 1973. He participated in the 1974 group exhibition of painters Kovacica. It has been able to build a unique style and his artistic expression diverts attention from the works of previous works of popular artists of Kovacica.


Many compositions are based on scenes from the life, with imaginative and colorful stories. The main theme from 1975 is the rooster. The creation of a true legend as a symbol of beauty, life and death, love and struggle. The rooster is a bird of night and day, the bird of darkness and light. First he painted the rooster, symbol of life, struggling with the fox, which leads to death. Since 1981 is part of the 'Association of Kovacica naive painters.

Mgr Art JAN HUSARIK (1942-)



Mgr Art Jan Husarik is one of the World's Greatest Living Artists of a Naïve art. He is the President of fabulous painter's school of Naïve art called "Thirst".

Jan Husarik was born in 1942 in Padina, village of Banat near Belgrade. Of Slovak origin. Since 1958 he paints on canvas. He exhibited for the first time in 1969 in Belgrade. Growing up after the Second World War, he was so poor, he could not afford any education. Nevertheless, he kept his vision in his heart, knowing that someday he would tell all the stories of his childhood trough paintings.He worked as a farmer, and having little land, dedicate more time to painting. For style and use of color is very close to "school" of Kovacica. Show interest in certain topics wider existence of which he returns in many paintings, especially with the series entitled "thirst". In his paintings the strong colors predominate, and among these favors orange. Art world naive painter Jan Husarik from Padina, has three themes: Lust, Troy and Surrealism. All three visual themes are derived from love, love of homeland and love of the past. Birthplace of painter Jan Husarik-Padina is located in the Banat, on the very edge Deliblatska sands in the past had big troubles because of the lack of water.



He also became a source of thirst Jana Husarik artistic creativity. A real thirst is gradually transformed into a symbol of the universal thirst, thirst, physical and spiritual thirst, thirst for love, beauty and happier life. Specific themes of landscapes Husarik Jana, who is the artistic-broken jars and their debris-occupy a central place. Behind these dry jars Husarik power of imagination and love for growing flowers, whose petals are rising high and deep over the flat horizon. In this way, using image composition Husarik glorifies beauty, which grows in dry a broken shock-symbol thirst. Jan Husarik Banat by painting his landscapes with deep horizon previously narrative with all possible details, like other naive painters. Recently, he began to paint for him the characteristic motifs with significant details and expressed purely visual stylization of forms. His old motifs are represented by simple shapes, where the decorative side of his artistic expression and also more pronounced in simpler terms.

Another major theme of artistic creativity Jana Husarik the distant past. Jan Husarik many years interested in the question of geographical location of the famous site of Troy. Obsession is what You can find in this topic and same visual expression in painting works of Jan Husarik.


Jan Husarik is among the most prominent and best contemporary painters Kovacica naive art. Almost half a century of creativity has had numerous exhibitions from Paris to Melbourne and Sydney. The greatest recognition for their creativity Jan Husarik received in Italy and France. To mention only Oscar for art and technology in Milan, and honorary membership in the International Association of Culture in Naples and the Order of the French Republic for cultural cooperation.



He is honoured with France’s CHEVALIER DE L'ORDRE DES ARTS ET DES LETTRES

JAN KNAZOVIC (1925-1986)

Founder of Kovacica Naive Art School

Naive Art painter of Slovak origin.

Jan Knazovic painted with heart and even signed his paintings with red hearts and the letter K, and in this tradition continued after his daughter, who was signed by the two hearts and the initials A. K. a granddaughter who is already signed three hearts and the initials N. K. M..

MICHAL POVOLNY (1937-)

Michal Povolny is naive painter of Slovak origin. He was born October 22, 1937 in Padina (village close to Kovacica, Serbia)


Member of the Kovacica Naïve Art Gallery

Born in Padina. He completed five years of primary school. Engaged in agriculture. Noted as a good artist still in elementary school. He began to paint the 1958th year.

Member of Naive Art Gallery, Kovacica. Since 1965. Collaboration with self-taught artists Gallery in Jagodina. It was first exhibited 1970th in Kovacica with Jan Husarik. The event "October Kovacica" exhibits since 1971. year. Michal is one of the pioneers Favorable "Kovacica school" in Padina. Favorable picture hometown warm yellow-brown color. What is his emblem are the ruins of the old windmills that cause nostalgic memories of a time when people of Vojvodina secured the bread. Today, these windmills do not have wings or a millstone. Relatively common and winter motifs that exude serenity. One of the most important compositions is "fair" in 1973. year showing the village cattle market. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions at home and abroad (Tel Aviv, Rome, Dusseldorf, Jerusalem, Amsterdam ...)