Dusan Sekela exhibition

Dušan Sekela is one of the outstanding artists of Slovak painting and one of the leading representatives of geometric abstraction. In the exhibition spaces of Danubiana we present a selection of his rich painting works from the last ten years.

Sekel’s artistic expression is based on original colour, shape and spatial configurations; the material composition of his relief paintings borders on “sculpture-painting”.

Colour has always played a very significant role in his work. He applies it on an atypical support, a concrete synthetic material, which allows him to create a three-dimensional image – a relief – where he applies colour by smearing, wiping, layering, casting, dabbing or dripping.

The geometric vibrating shape overlaps, juxtaposes or harmonizes with the coloured surface. The result is a compact morphology based on the juxtaposition of isosceles triangles, ellipses, spirals, rosettes, squares or quadrilaterals. When we perceive his works, we are impressed by the infinity and limitlessness of space. Sekel’s natural artistic interpretation is the dynamic gesture, the phenomenon of light, the contrasting colours and, above all, the very expressive movement in the structure of the surface.

However, the three-dimensional spatiality is also remarkable, as Sekela says, an attempt at 3D. In his works he has always expressed a desire for harmony in a chaotic world, trying to bring elements of spirituality and balance into the inner world of contemporary man, he is true to his artistic motto: “Art is not a metaphor of life, but of its ideas.”

Therefore, all the works carry a mission that contains the idea of not harming oneself, other people and one’s surroundings within contemporary civilization. It is natural that Sekela admires, as he says: “The breathtaking beauty of the cartography of our earth, the enchanting twinkle of mysterious stars, the fantastic richness of interpersonal relationships, love and art.”

PhDr. Dagmar Kudoláni Srnenská, PhD

Biography:

Academic painter Dušan Sekela was born on March 3, 1955 in Medzilaborce. From 1974 to 1980 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, in the department of monumental painting under professors Elvira Antalova, Róbert Dúbravec, Ján Želibský, Dezider Gastiglione and Ivan Vychlopen. He has had solo exhibitions at home and abroad, for example in France, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Portugal, Uzbekistan and Austria.

He is represented in the Gallery of Fine Arts in Prešov, the Zemplín Museum in Michalovce, the M. A. Bazovský Regional Gallery in Trenčín and the Nitra Gallery, as well as in private collections in Canada, Switzerland and Austria. He is a member of the board of directors of the Fine Arts Fund and the Slovak Art Union. In 2024 he was awarded the Grand Prix of the Slovak Art Union at the Biennial of Free Art.

Date: from 10.12.2024 – 02.02.2025

Opening hours:

Monday – closed
Tuesday – Sunday
from 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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