On November 6, an exhibition will open at the M. A. Bazovský Gallery presenting the work of sculptor RUDOLF UHER, a founding figure of Slovak modern sculpture, who came from the Trenčín region. The exhibition titled TRACES will present his work in a new and unconventional way – as a look into his studio, as it has been preserved in the memory of his works, into the creative thinking in process, documented through the artist’s estate managed by his grandson Lukáš Uher within the Uher & Uher collection.
Practical information
Place: M. A. Bazovský Gallery, Palackého 27, Trenčín
Date: from November 6, 2025 to January 18, 2026
Opening: November 6, 2025 at 5:00 p.m.
Admission: free entry
In the second half of the 1940s, Rudolf Uher brought into Slovak sculpture the inspiration of that line of modern art which, in the discovery of primitive and archaic art, found new and unexpected moments of mysterious complexity and sensitivity. As a counterpoint to his early work, the exhibition will also show the transformation of his artistic expression in the 1960s toward a modern conception of the archetype and a sculptural elementalism of a specific rustic and rudimentary character. At that time, he reached a great symbolic form and a rusticly felt abstraction built upon the inner monumentality and drama of sculptural gesture. He was able to infuse his nonfigurative sculptures with a primordial unity, elevating them to universal, timeless signs and symbols of home and the environment from which he came. In his work, he combined expressive handwriting with a hint of geometrization of form, the archaic, pre-civilizational myth with the sensitivity of the technical age. In the 1970s, he devoted himself to ceramics. Through the exhibition, we aim to highlight the uniqueness of his artistic program not only in the Slovak but also in the broader Central European context. Visitors will see both iconic and lesser-known works, including previously unpublished and unexhibited pieces from different time periods, genres, and layers of his work (sculptures, ceramics, drawings, and paintings).
Photo and video documentation will be made during the event and may be published later.
