Ján Glózik

Jan Glozik was born in 1957 in Kovacica. He finished his elementary school here, and that moment is tight up to start of his interest in painting.  Judgment for that was often visit to exhibitions of Kovacica’s painters. After viewing those beautiful paintings, he wanted and tried to make painting on his own. He couldn’t manage it, 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 asked Zuzana Chalupova for help. She helped him gladly, by letting him know the secrets of preparing colors and canvas. At the beginning of 1975, he made his first painting named “Going out to field”. At the same time, the first club of Kovacica’s painters opens. He was good friend with the president of the club, Martin Kizur, who later becomes academic painter, they talk about art, even had a trip to Italy where Jan Glozik was inspired by the skills of the old Italian masters of painting. He presented his works on annual exhibitions of this club every may. In the middle of 80’s he had his first exhibition. First collective exhibition was in Kovacica in 1989. He was admitted to Kovacica naive art council in 1989. During the year 2000 he was the president of the council. The themes in his works are often peasants, their work in field or yard, customs related to holidays from life of Slovaks who came in these parts of county two hundred years ago in search of better life. He had 40 separate exhibitions in country and foreign by now.