OIL PAINTINGS
Work 2020-2021
MIX Media
Work 2020-2021
Mix media
Work 2003-2021
OIL Paintings
Work 2019-2021
Nina Veselá (Cohen) was born in Bratislava, on December 10, 1975. Here she studied at the Secondary School of Fine Arts, Department of Graphics, and at the Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Graphic Design. Later she graduated from SVA in New York City. During her studies, she has become acquainted and connected with fine arts and culture. Her talent for not only drawing, line, shape, surface, color, rhythm, and composition but also for the gesture, along with play in the time and space of her work and life, was given to her by God at birth and also as a result of her genetic proximity and close relationships.
The artist‘s orientation was first shaped at home, through knowledge of the end of the 20th century and the turn of the 20th and 21st century in Europe. Then she got a great lesson from the American art scene. Since 2000 she was in New York City, where she studied and graduated from the School of Visual Arts. In addition to paintings, she also specializes in advertising, especially in the area of graphics, photography, and creative copywriting. It is characterized by her conceptual understanding of graphic design and awareness of social advertising, its tremendous potential, urgency, feedback, and indisputable risks in the area of formation but also deformation, of not only the direct client but also a broad consumer society, as O. Toscani also writes.
In addition to Nina‘s American lesson, connections with the art and artists of Israel have been recently added. Together with that, she continues her work in a graphic design studio in Bratislava again. Since the year 2000, she has created art for numerous original art exhibitions at home and abroad: 2000 in Bratislava, Slovakia, 2001 in New York City, USA, 2004 in Kibbutz Ginosar, Israel, Vienna, London, and others.
On the premises of her Bratislava studio, we talk about her life, work, exhibitions, advertising, and free painting. Here I see large and small formats of her latest work. They are images of the landscape and the urban environment, they are compositions in which she talks about her world, life, feelings, and knowledge in painter‘s speech. Loud, visible, spontaneous, aggressive, and targeted, from person to person are her figural components of predatory, expressive painting. As she says, „she dwells on the brink of hell.“ The internal and external syntheses of the form, spirit, and meaning of its compositions, are characteristic and suggestive.
Somewhere in the depth of her paintings, we can sense the legacy of children‘s drawing with its expressive charge, then they turn into European and overseas modern and postmodern style, new figuration, and its forms. We can sense possible contexts within the European Community – Germans, Italians, French, Spanish … The legacy of the ancient COBRA group (Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam, and K. Appel and A. Jorn), J. Dubuffet, with new Wilde‘s S. Polke, AE Penck, G. Baselitz, and their paintings „wild and fierce.“ Naturally, adding to this mix the Americans. Unforgettable J. Pollock, A. Gorky, pop artists R. Rauschenberg and J. Johns, from the younger ones especially J. M. Basquiat, J. Schnabel.
The essence of Nina‘s paintings and their explosive power are born in the soul, body, and mind of the painter herself. It is she who coordinates the harmonies and the popular, desirable, and probably necessary contrasts and connections. Within them lies the energy of the images and the radiance of iconic and lethal elements of the compositions. Paintings speak, sound, scream, and roar, but there is also a paradoxical moment of silence and meditation, answers, thoughts, and questions. What‘s going on? Asks Nina‘s L‘art brut. Her grotesqueness and narrative, her character and symbolism, wholeness and fragmentation, are something unique, universal, and global. Her paintings resonate with current times and are similar to the common destiny of people of our time, their communication, about what all may be possible this time, what is, has been, and what will be. As she states herself „Her paintings have open
Bohumír Bachratý
Art historian, PhDr., CSc.
Nina Veselá (Cohen) was born in Bratislava, on December 10, 1975. Here she studied at the Secondary School of Fine Arts, Department of Graphics, and at the Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Graphic Design. Later she graduated from SVA in New York City. During her studies, she has become acquainted and connected with fine arts and culture. Her talent for not only drawing, line, shape, surface, color, rhythm, and composition but also for the gesture, along with play in the time and space of her work and life, was given to her by God at birth and also as a result of her genetic proximity and close relationships.
The artist‘s orientation was first shaped at home, through knowledge of the end of the 20th century and the turn of the 20th and 21st century in Europe. Then she got a great lesson from the American art scene. Since 2000 she was in New York City, where she studied and graduated from the School of Visual Arts. In addition to paintings, she also specializes in advertising, especially in the area of graphics, photography, and creative copywriting. It is characterized by her conceptual understanding of graphic design and awareness of social advertising, its tremendous potential, urgency, feedback, and indisputable risks in the area of formation but also deformation, of not only the direct client but also a broad consumer society, as O. Toscani also writes.
In addition to Nina‘s American lesson, connections with the art and artists of Israel have been recently added. Together with that, she continues her work in a graphic design studio in Bratislava again. Since the year 2000, she has created art for numerous original art exhibitions at home and abroad: 2000 in Bratislava, Slovakia, 2001 in New York City, USA, 2004 in Kibbutz Ginosar, Israel, Vienna, London, and others.
On the premises of her Bratislava studio, we talk about her life, work, exhibitions, advertising, and free painting. Here I see large and small formats of her latest work. They are images of the landscape and the urban environment, they are compositions in which she talks about her world, life, feelings, and knowledge in painter‘s speech. Loud, visible, spontaneous, aggressive, and targeted, from person to person are her figural components of predatory, expressive painting. As she says, „she dwells on the brink of hell.“ The internal and external syntheses of the form, spirit, and meaning of its compositions, are characteristic and suggestive.
Somewhere in the depth of her paintings, we can sense the legacy of children‘s drawing with its expressive charge, then they turn into European and overseas modern and postmodern style, new figuration, and its forms. We can sense possible contexts within the European Community – Germans, Italians, French, Spanish … The legacy of the ancient COBRA group (Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam, and K. Appel and A. Jorn), J. Dubuffet, with new Wilde‘s S. Polke, AE Penck, G. Baselitz, and their paintings „wild and fierce.“ Naturally, adding to this mix the Americans. Unforgettable J. Pollock, A. Gorky, pop artists R. Rauschenberg and J. Johns, from the younger ones especially J. M. Basquiat, J. Schnabel.
The essence of Nina‘s paintings and their explosive power are born in the soul, body, and mind of the painter herself. It is she who coordinates the harmonies and the popular, desirable, and probably necessary contrasts and connections. Within them lies the energy of the images and the radiance of iconic and lethal elements of the compositions. Paintings speak, sound, scream, and roar, but there is also a paradoxical moment of silence and meditation, answers, thoughts, and questions. What‘s going on? Asks Nina‘s L‘art brut. Her grotesqueness and narrative, her character and symbolism, wholeness and fragmentation, are something unique, universal, and global. Her paintings resonate with current times and are similar to the common destiny of people of our time, their communication, about what all may be possible this time, what is, has been, and what will be. As she states herself „Her paintings have open.
Bohumír Bachratý
Art historian, PhDr., CSc.
