Too Many Angels Illustration

Zuzana Bočkayová Bruncková’s work is different at first glance, easily recognizable thanks to her expressive and at the same time, in her own way, tender artistic language. Its originality and authenticity is guaranteed at first glance by the contradictory combination of harmonious colouring, expressive painterly handwriting together with bold shape stylisation and even deformation leading to the border of the acceptable.

The artist creates her fabulous compositions with a baroque sense of shape, light and space. She depicts the key situations of the story up close, often from bizarre, unexpected angles and changing perspectives, through which she draws the reader into the action, creating a kind of unease, but at the same time heightening the intensity of the experience.

Characters, animals, plants and things deliberately fill and dominate the entire space of the surface, giving the impression of wanting to transcend it and expand into our real world… An important expressive component of her expression is the unrepeatable, harmonious, at times even delicate colouring, together with her acknowledged painterly handwriting.

As it is customary in the case of quality book titles, Zuzana Bočkayová – Bruncková’s illustrations become an equal partner of the text, they live their own life, they complete what has been hinted at. With ease and a great deal of feeling and intuition, the author reveals and then visualizes the atmosphere of the books and the stories themselves.

She modifies her artistic expression very freely and non-violently, adapting it to changing themes, time periods and authors. Even with the unquestionable artistic complexity of his illustrations, he respects the possibilities of children’s perception. In a relatively short period of time, his work has shaped and co-created the visual language of contemporary children’s literature.

Zuzana Sýkorová

Biography:

Zuzana Bočkayová Bruncková was born in 1980 in Martin. She graduated in 1999-2005 in Bratislava, where she studied book graphics and illustration in the studio of prof. Dušan Kállay. In the same period she studied at the Faculty of Commerce of the UE in Bratislava, specialization in business and marketing. In 2004 she completed a professional internship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, in the studio of graphic design under doc. J. Lindovský. Since graduating she has been living and working in Bratislava, working in book illustration, for which she has won several awards. She is a member of the Association of Illustrators.

Awards:

2001 The Most Beautiful Books of Slovakia, SNK Prize for student work Nox et solitudo
2007 The most beautiful children’s book of the winter – Being a dragonfly is amazing!
2007 The Most Beautiful Books of Slovakia 2007, Prize of the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic for illustrations of the book Being a Dragonfly is Amazing!
2010 The Most Beautiful Children’s Book of Autumn – Slovak Tales III
2011 The Most Beautiful Children’s Book of Summer – Seven Days in the Cellar
2011 Best Children’s Book of Winter – Stories from Old Bratislava
2019 Best Children’s Book of Autumn – Honey from Ice Flowers
2021 Mayor’s Prize of the Capital City of Prague City of Bratislava, BIB 2021

Location: Danubiana, Čunovo, Slovakia
Date: from 16.04.2024 – 02.06.2024
Start: 10:00 – 18:00
Admission:
Adults – 10 €
Family (2 adults and 2 students) – 20 €
Pensioners (over 62 years old) – 5 €
Students – 5 €
Children (under 6 years old) – Free
Danubiana Club Members – Free
Disabled persons, persons over 75 years of age – Free

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