Roman Bicek
"My work reflects my everyday reality, confronted with the seemingly distant images from the media. Ideas and concepts from my Eastern European background mix with more global imagery. I think that there is a feeling of alienation present in my work. I moved frequently all my life so, I feel like a bit of an outsider everywhere. I feel that there is an effort from my side to invent a legitimate place/space for this hybrid way of seeing things, which comes through in my art."
Anna Mária Beňová
The paintings I paint are articulations of corporeality, pleasure, or intimacy, often on the verge of provocation or wit. For me, the mutual relations of female characters in a figurative sense are essential - their expressions, the fictional / real space in which they are placed