Miloš Balgavý
1955, Bratislava
Balgavý studies the intensity of color in relation to the thickness of the body. Frequent shapes in his work are narrowing leaf-like or needle-like formations. He focuses his attention on the basic geometrical shape of the sphere, which becomes the tool that delivers symbolic messages. The artist goes on making use of intense color and its effects, of the transparency of glass and its ability to capture light.
1970 – 1974 Secondary School of Applied Arts, Bratislava
1978 – 1984 Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Department of Glass Art (V. Cigler, A. Žáčko)
Solo Exhibitions (selection):
2006 Light of Colors III. – Retrospective, West-Slovak museum, Trnava
2004 Gallery NOVA, Bratislava
2003 Studio A/D/A, Trnava
2002 Glass gallery DIVYD, Hummel Museum, Bratislava
Gallery Plateaux (together with P. Hlôška), London, GB
2001 Gallery Groll, Naarden, NL
Etiene & van den Doel Gallery (together with P. Bremers), Gulpen, NL
1999 Rob van den Doel Gallery, Haag, NL
Municipal Gallery, Mirbach Palace, Bratislava
1997 Vermes Vila, Slovak National Gallery, Dunajská Streda
Group Exhibitions (selection):
2007 Contemporary Slovak Glass, Leo Kaplan Modern Gallery, New York, USA
2006 Glaskunst, Galerie des Beaux Arts, Heeze, NL
2005 Thinking in Glass, Václav Cigler and His School, Gemeentemuseum Den
Haag, NL
2004 Hommage aan Rob van den Doel, Etiene & Van den Doel Galerie, Oisterwijk,
NL
Collect, V&A Museum, London, GB
2002 Dialogo con la luce, Cristallo Slovaco Contemporaneo, Gallery Via Larga,
Florence, Roma, I
2001 Reflecties, Gallery Groll, Nieuweigein, NL
Representation in public collections (selection):
Museum van den Togt, Amsterdam, NL
Museé des Arts Décoratifs, Lausanne, CH
Glassmuseum, Ebeltoft, D
Nationale Nederlanden, Rotterdam, NL
Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
Gallery NOVA, Bratislava
Museum of Applied Arts, Prague, CZ
