Juraj Bartusz Explained

Juraj Bartusz
Birth Date:	23 October 1933
Birth Place:	Kamenín, Slovak Republic
Nationality:	Slovakian
Field:	Sculpture, Performance, Neoavantgarde Artist
Movement:	Abstract art Concrete art Computer art
Spouse:	Mária Bartuszová

Juraj Bartusz (born 23 October 1933) is a Slovak sculptor known for his time-space statues and for his non-conventional approach to statue and object from the mid-1960s until the present. "In 1972 he started to work with the computer, cooperating with the computer programmer Vladimír Haltenberger. Computer generated curves were used as a template for manufacturing rotational, human-like sculptures."^[1] "The broad spectrum of author’s work includes constructivist sculpture, action and conceptual art, site-specific art, as well as installation. In the eighties he started working with the time factor and began to create time-limited paintings and drawings, and model his works by forceful hits, e. g. throwing bricks to solidifying plaster or slamming the material with planks or rubber straps, referring to the energy of the author’s gesture."^[2]

Biography

During the 1960s, he was a part of the Club of Concretists^[3] (Klub Konkretistov known as Concrete art), led by art historian Arsen Pohribny. Juraj Bartusz was the husband of woman sculptor Mária Bartuszová (between 1961 – 1984). His current wife is poet Jana Bodnárová. He was a professor of Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (1990-1999); later he established and he is academically active at the Art and Intermedia Department of the Technical University in Košice (since 1999). In 1992 he was appointed to the professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague (Czech Republic).^[4]

Public collections, selection

• Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava, Slovak Republic
• East Slovak Gallery, Košice, Slovak Republic
• Albertina, Vienna, Austria
• Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest), Hungary
• House of Arts Olomouc, Czech Republic
• Villa Merkel / Galerien der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar, Germany
• Nitra Gallery, Nitra, Slovak Republic
• L. Kassák Museum, Nové Zámky, Slovak Republic
• The Art Gallery of Považie, Žilina ^[5]

Bibliography

• BARTOšOVÁ, Zuzana. Juraj Bartusz. In. Výtvarný život 30, 1985, č. 8, s. 24 – 26
• POHRIBNÝ, Arsén. Under The Sign of Principles of Constructivism. Concretist´s Club after 20 Years I. In.: Výtvarný život 36, 1992, č. 2-3, s. 2-14
• Col. 60´s, Slovak National Gallery : Bratislava, 1995
• BAJCUROVÁ, Katarína. Geometric Tendencies In Slovak Sculpture. In.: Changing of Statue 1960 – 199. International Colloquium. Bratislava, 1994, s. 26- 33
• BÜNGEROVÁ, Vladimíra, Katarína BAJCUROVÁ and Lucia GREGOROVÁ-STACHOVÁ. Bartusz: Gesture, Points, Seconds. Bratislava: Slovak National Gallery, 2010. .
• RUSINOVÁ, Zora. "Juraj Bartusz", in Umenie akcie 1965-1989, ed. Zora Rusinová, Bratislava: Slovenská národná galéria, 2001, pp 131-138. (online Slovak)
• VRBANOVÁ, Alena: Slovak Alternative Graphics. Untraditional, Experimental and Author's Sides of Slovak Graphic During 2nd Half Of 20th Century. Bratislava : Roman Fecik Gallery, 2019

Further reading

• Maria Bartuszová. Provisional Forms

Notes and References

1. Web site: Juraj Bartusz - Monoskop. 2020-08-23. monoskop.org.
2. Web site: Marschieren Marsch!, 1993 – The first museum of intermedia. 2020-08-23. en-GB.
3. Book: Medosch, Armin . New Tendencies: Art at the Threshold of the Information Revolution (1961 - 1978) . 2016 . MIT Press. Cambridge Mass. London, England. 9780262034166 . 175 . 1st.
4. Book: BÜNGEROVÁ, Vladimíra, Katarína BAJCUROVÁ, GREGOROVÁ-STACHOVÁ Lucia (ed.) . Gestá, body, sekundy. . 2010 . Slovak National Gallery Bratislava. Bratislava . 9788080591519 . 94–100 . 1st.
5. Book: POHRIBNÝ. Arsén . Klub konkrétistů / Club of Concretists . 1997 . Kant . Prague . s. 22 – 23 . 1st.