Kristína Mésároš
Kristina Mésároš (1981) belongs to a generation of young artists who created the look of current Slovak painting in the last decade. The sources of the first author's motivations to paint were from the outset internal, personal, based on her own experience and innate need to express them in painting. The author often finds inspiration and specific fragments of her paintings in exotic locations of distant lands, borrows them from historical photographs, or searches for them with a camera in the banalities of the outside world – all according to her current creation cycles and related areas of interest.
Paintings of Kristina Mésároš are mainly based on stories. In her work, she is often exploring the idea of finding inner freedom and the meaning of life through poetic fantasy scenes in which an important role is played by the natural environment and in it a hidden hint of previous or future events. In her painting, she inserts stories of specific places that are normally unknown or only work in relation to a personal memory or fact taken out of its original context. Her own impressions and memories inspire her to poetry saturated scenes, in which an important role is played by the interaction of the environment with the human figure. The country of motifs is always changing, but the sense of imaginative narrative remains present throughout her work. Paintings where the natural background of the scene becomes a self-supporting element are an expression of a distinctive, enthusiastic passion for the possibilities of painting techniques (flushing, snorting, wash). Paintings of Kristina Mésároš consist of a combination of several approaches linking personal authenticity, at times certain naivety of ideas and artistic sensitivity and innovation in the creation process. She is inviting us to unleash those places in your mind that can perceive beauty of unnoticed details, decrypt metaphorical language and treasure short, fast-fleeting moments. By: Diana Majdakova (Less)
EDUCATION
2008 - 2014
Ph.D studies on Academy of Fine Arts & Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
2009
Research student on Lasalle College of Arts, Singapore
2004 — 2006
MFA in Printmaking, Academy of Fine Arts & Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
2000 - 2004
BFA in Printmaking, Academy of Fine Arts & Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
RESIDENCIES
2017
Artist in residence „Novum“, Nové Zámky, Slovakia
2011
Lind Art, International workshop, Gallery Muzeum Lendava, Lendava, Slovenia
2010
SIMPAT, International Worksho, Patince, Slovakia
International Young Artists Fine Art Colony, Lendava, Slovenia
2009
Research student on Lasalle College of Arts, Singapore, Philippines and Indonesia
International Ateliers of contemporary arts In Monteacuto delle Alpi, Italy
International symposium of painting, Turves, France
2008
Scholarship at Udajana University Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
2004
GARB, Workschop of young artist, Montescaglioso, Italy
2003
Student exchange at Academy of Fine Art, Warsaw, Poland
AWARDS
2014
Nominee and finalist on Maľba, Nedbalka Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2009
Finalist on STRABAG ARTAWARD INTERNATIONAL, Vienna, Austria
Nominee for Painting of the year 2009 Award for Young Artist Ministry of culture, Bratislava, Slovakia
2008
Nominee for Painting of the year 2008 Award for Young Artist Ministry of culture, Bratislava, Slovakia
2003
1st place, Competition for the best New Years illustration postcard 2003 and Gas de France