Agria 40. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2004)

Martin Mešša: Nagyméretű kortárs faszobrok a Východnái folklór fesztiválon, s ezek hatása a jelenkori szlovákiai faszobrászatra

PISÚTOVÁ, Irena 1976 Súcasná l'udová plastika na Slovensku. BRATISLAVA: PALLAS, 143 s. 1995 Kresané do dreva: О stálej vystave drevenych plastík vo Vychodnej In: Národná osveta. - Roc. 5, с. 13, s. 10-11. SLOVENSKÉ EUDOVÉ UMENIE I. - II. 1953 Vytvarny prejav. Architektúyra, kroje a vysivky, keramika, rezba, та1Ъа. Tatran Bratislava. 1954 II. Vytvarny prejav. Keramika, rezba, mal'ba. Tatran Bratislava. Martin Messa Contemporary Monumental Wood Sculptures from the Vychodná Folklore Festival and their Influence on Contemporary Woodcarving in Slovakia Ever since 1975 the Drawing in Wood (Kresané do dreva) woodcarvers' symposium has taken place as part of the folklore festival held in Vychodná. The event is organised by the Bratislava National Arts Centre (Národné osvetové centrum), the Vychodná Local Council and the Liptovsky Mikulás Arts Centre (Ostetové stredisko). The large scale, monumental sculptures created at Vychodná prompted the founding of more than ten similar events throughout Slovakia, whose initiators and organisors were more often than not former and in some cases current participants at the Vychodná symposium themselves. The sculptures made during the course of the symposium are put on display in amphitheatres, parks and galleries, and make a big impression on people showing an interest in this branch of the arts for the first time. At the same time, however, it would be wrong to say that all the works produced fall easily into the category of folk art in a purely ethnographical sense. Rather, one should say that one is dealing here with works which use the numerous formal and informal elements familiar to students of wood sculpture. The folk influences which do exist on the large-scale sculptures come either from the sheer scale of the carved beehives; the freely carved motifs, with their stylised and abbreviated mode of expression, found on pastoral drinking vessels (Hung: cserpák) and other objects associated with shepherds; and finally the pastoral motifs found in the Visitation of the Shepherds episode in the Nativity and other pastoral motifs, whose individual elements, as in sacred works in general, are given the special detailed treatment. This is a formal device still popular with the contemporary woodcarvers when depicting people engaged in work or particular social situations. 449