{"id":25207,"date":"2025-03-19T11:23:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T10:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zgjm.sk\/?page_id=25207"},"modified":"2025-03-19T11:54:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T10:54:44","slug":"richard-marco-styx","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.zgjm.sk\/en\/exhibitions\/archive-of-exhibitions\/2025-2\/richard-marco-styx\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Marco: Styx"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Richard Marco: Styx - \u03a3\u03c4\u03bd\u03be<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The second in a series of five thematic exhibitions by a young painter.<\/strong><\/p>

Author, Exhibition Title: <\/strong>Richard Marco: Styx \u2013 \u03a3\u03c4\u03bd\u03be
Venue<\/strong>: Z\u00e1horie Gallery of J\u00e1n Mudroch in Senica, Sadov\u00e1 619\/3
Curator: <\/strong>Peter Megye\u0161i
Exhibition Opening: Friday, March 21, 2025, at 5:00 PM
<\/strong>Musical guests at the vernissage: <\/strong>Colorful Music \u2013 Lucia Lu\u017einsk\u00e1 (vocals), Val\u00e9r Miko (piano)
Exhibition Duration: <\/strong>Friday, March 21, 2025 \u2013 Sunday, May 11, 2025<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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About the exhibition<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The Styx \u2013 \u03a3\u03c4\u03bd\u03be exhibition presents a selection of Richard Marco\u2019s paintings from the past three years, continuing his conceptually driven artistic program. In ancient Greek mythology and topography, the sacred river Styx forms the boundary between the world of the living and the dead. Its waters granted invulnerability to those who bathed in them, yet they were also poisonous. These borderline states and ambivalences evoked by the river Styx are typical of Marco\u2019s work. He explores the tension between the profane and the sacred, the contemporary and the historical, the archetypal and the individual. With his technically and technologically masterful “realist” painting, he comments on the transience of artifacts while also reflecting on the enduring relevance of themes and the immortality of artistic creation. Marco\u2019s painterly variations, resurrections, and reinterpretations embody an effort to resist decay and dissolution in their many forms.<\/p>

Styx \u2013 \u03a3\u03c4\u03bd\u03be follows his 2022 exhibition \u03bb\u03ae\u03b8\u03b7 \u2013 L\u00e9th\u00e9 at the Nitra Gallery, the first in a planned series of five thematic presentations focused on themes of transition, transience, and forgetting. The exhibition titles and concepts are inspired by the unique characteristics of the five mythical rivers that separate the living from the dead in Greek mythology: the all-freezing Styx, the river of wailing Acheron, the river of lamentation Cocytus, the fiery Phlegethon, and the dark Lethe, whose waters erase memories of the earthly world.<\/p>

Marco examines the potential of painting in shaping both individual and collective memory and in visually capturing impermanence, mortality, and their endurance across different eras. Through his paintings, he reveals, highlights, and comments on the conventions and contexts of sacred and mythological motifs and symbols, exploring their transmission, experience, and reinterpretation. By combining a fixed repertoire of symbols, motifs, and compositional solutions, he challenges the identity of images and disrupts expectations of a singular visual narrative. This approach is further emphasized in the current exhibition by the inclusion of works of Baroque figurative sacred sculpture\u2014fragments from an original altar ensemble now housed in the Z\u00e1horie Gallery of J\u00e1n Mudroch. Richard Marco\u2019s informed painterly dialogue with art history draws attention to the ambivalences of seemingly familiar genres, themes, and symbolic expressions in their evolving visual representations.<\/p>

His work is defined by the tension between conventional motifs and their reinterpretation, shifts, and commentary, as well as by an emphasis on emotional states and the blending of different temporal layers within the image. His approach to updating archaic themes and navigating between sacred and profane iconography serves as a means of engaging with profound artistic and historical questions: mortality, transience, and the concept of eternity.<\/p>

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