Peter Pauko

Peter Pauko was born in Martin in 1982. He graduated at the university in Nitra. He studied at Pedagogical Faculty, Department of Art and Education. He was led by exceptional personality /in this time dead/ – surrealist professor Karol Baron and great Slovak artist Robert Bielik. He finished the university studying in 2006. He had his first exhibition in 2004. Since that time his works have been presented at solo and group exhibitions. He dedicates to painting, drawing, installations and ceramics techniques. As a teacher at a private art school Atelier Medea in Bitra he shares his acquired artistic and visual experience with his students. He is a member of art group “Club of free artists SVVU”. He lives and creates in Nitra. He is very creative, he is still pushing his work towards the quality of panting and to the percepient – recipient of art work.

Peter Pauko introduce himself and his current creation:

„The theme of my current painting cycle is: Such a nice, contemporary landscaping. And it is the result of the sum of the following variables:

1. landscape
2. balans between the light artwork to the apartment (the so-called “couch”) and the artistic concept of landscaping
3. balans between “the past (classical, oppressed, often boring, worn out) and” contemporary (inventive, unintentional, young …)
4. A view of the landscape through the eyes of “the child of today”, i. me alone

The title of the cycle, somewhat ironically, is based on calling, the finding of a “majority” spectator: “Also nice!” “How dear!” Let the list of calls be complete, and let it be more relevant to my theme, I will add: “What a beautiful country!”. These summons stood at the beginning of the work. They were such a small detonator, maybe a spark. The flame was the challenge of artistically processing the theme that has been in the history of art culture for centuries. The theme of the landscape is the continuation of the last independent exhibition where I started with this theme. In my paintings I deal with the landscape. The theme attracted me rather with an emphasis on the location of the painting itself. What is important to me is the way of display, the use of art abbreviations, the use of stylization. the topic itself is just an add-on. All of this, including my study, had an impact on my paintings.  

It is sometimes difficult for musicians to play the songs. It is difficult to find a new approach to them. A new approach to the musical work will usually be done by those who have a new approach to other aspects of life. To life as a whole. I tried to “play the songs” and give them a clear and understandable speech, but without the old one, without the laziness of the cheap and without (pseudo) complication of the snob.“