ARTIST PROFILE

Veronika Sramaty

  • Slovakia (b. 1977 in Zvolen)
  • Currently in Reca, Slovakia.
Slovak National Gallery

Slovak National Gallery

  • 2010
  • Gouache on Paper
  • 6 x 4 cm
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    Expanding Collection / Expandujúca kolekcia | 2010

In her project Expanding Collection/Expandujúca kolekcia (since 2010) she reflects on the acquisitive strategies of institutions collecting works of art by way of producing a collection of hyper realistic façade repaints of well known Slovakian and foreign galleries. Author offers this repaint to the involved gallery/institution as a gift, and thus intervenes into its artwork collection. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- / SK -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reflexiou postupov akvizičných systémov zbierkotvorných inštitúcií sa zaoberá v projekte Expanding Collection/Expandujúca kolekcia (od r. 2010), kde pracuje na vytváraní kolekcie hyperrealistických premalieb fasád renomovaných slovenských a zahraničných galérií. Premaľbu autorka následne ponúka zobrazenej galerijnej inštitúcii ako dar, a tým intervenuje do jej zbierkového fondu. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From text by Zuzana L. Majlingová (Veronika Šramatyová Catalogue, 2010)