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Mária Balážová (born 31 August 1956 in Trnava, Slovakia, former Czechoslovakia) is a contemporary Slovak artist. Her practise as an artist is usually associated with new geometry, post-geometry and postmodern.
Balážová studied at the Academy of Muse Arts, Bratislava and Magister of Arts degree received in 1984. Balážová is also known as a teacher at the University of Trnava - since 1997. Husband - Blazej Balaz, slovak painter.
Immediately at the beginning, Mária Balážová, created her own „personal mythology“, emphasizing a snake motif in the geometrically stylised form of a cobra. This animal, which occupies an important position in world mythologies and religions, became the main motif of cycles of paintings, to which the artist gave the name Serpent Geometry. Balážová distinguished herself from classic Neo-Constructivism, outlined on subjectless combinations of shapes and colours, put together into geometric structures. Art theorists appreciate the „new significance“ she achieved by creating radically reductive forms (Jiří Valoch, 2002). "
Her works are held in the collections of Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, National Gallery, Prague (CZ), Wannieck Gallery Brno (CZ), Jan Koniarek Gallery [1], Trnava.
The artist has been a member of the revived Club of Concrete Artists 2 and the artist's group East of Eden. She lives and works in Trnava.
Awards
1990 Honorable Mention, Drawing 1990, Provo (USA)
1995 Prize of Masaryk's Academy, Prague (CZ)
Selected solo exhibitions
Maria Balazova, Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, 26 June – 30 July 1991 (catalogue)
Maria Balazova, Gallery Arpex, Bratislava, 28 January – 17 February 1993
Serpent Geometry, Cyprian Majernik Gallery, Bratislava, 19 April – 8 May 1995
Serpent Geometry 2, Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, 23 May – 23 June 1996 (catalogue)
Dozen 1988-2000, The Central Slovakian Gallery, Banská Bystrica, 5 May – 30 June 2000
Dozen 1988-2000, The East Slovak Gallery, Košice, 14 September – 15 October 2000
5th International Drawing Triennale, Tallinn, Kunsthalle (EE), 2015
4th International Salon Graphics, Kraljevo (RS), 2016
Osten Biennial of Drawing Skopje 2016, Osten Drawing, Skopje (MK), 2016
Socially alive, Bratislava, Slovak Union of Visual Arts, 2016
Works
Archetyp (1988) : Collection of Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
Pose VII (1989)
Rocket Man 1 (1989)
Lexicon 1 (1990)
Flowing 6 (1993) : Collection of Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava [2]
Serpent Geometry 2 (1994) : Collection of Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava [3]
Serpent Geometry 3 (1994) [4]
Serpent Geometry 5 (1996) [5]
Serpent Geometry 15 – Church (1998) [6]
Serpent Geometry 33 – Fatum (2000/01) [7]
Serpent Geometry 40 – Alphabet 3 (2002) : Collection of National Gallery, Prague [8]
Serpent Geometry 43 (2004)[9]
Serpent Geometry 49 - Portrait (2005/06) : Collection of Wannieck Gallery Brno [10]
Serpent Geometry – Shoot (2005) [11]
Serpent Geometry 70 – History (2005/07)
Chaos 1 (2006/09) [12]
Books and Catalogues
BALGAVÁ, B. - ORAVCOVÁ, J. - VALOCH, J. 1997. Mária Balážová. Trnava : Ján Koniarek Gallery, 32 p.
VALOCH, J. 2002. Mária Balážová / Serpent Geometry 1997-2002. Trnava : Trnava University, 12 p.
BESKID, V. - VALOCH, J. - GAJDOŠ, R. 2009. Mária Balážová / 1985-2009. Trnava : Typi Universitatis Tyrnaviensis, (English – Slovak, colour), 111 p. ISBN 978-80-8082-265-1
