Photo: Babka GalleryPeasants with giant hands and feet, figures of Suzana Halupova's children and other motifs of the naive painters of Kovačica, have been nominated for the UNESCO list. They can currently be seen at the Festival in Kovačica
The second Festival of Slovak naive art started with good news: naive painting in Kovačica was nominated for inclusion in the UNESCO representative list of intangible cultural heritage.
So far, Slava (2014), Kolo (2017), Pevanje uz gusle (2018), Zlakuska lončarija (2020), and Pirotski kilim (2022) have been registered.
It is expected that the final decision on the inclusion of Kovačica's naive painting on the UNESCO list will be made during the next year, and Maja Gojković, Minister of Culture, said that "with great and realistic optimism, we expect the completion of that process".
Applying for the inclusion of an element of Slovak naïve painting in the UNESCO list is based on the method of passing on the skills created in the Slovak national community in the territory of Kovačica and Padina. It is passed on to talented individuals and constantly changes, representing one of the most significant features of this South Banat municipality.
Enrollment in the representative list recognizes the artistic value of Slovak naive painting in Serbia, affirms the creative work of the minority community that is responsible for the current status of "sincere art" in Kovačica, but also adds to the market value of the works of Slovak naive painters.
It all started from the heart, in the late thirties of the last century on the canvases of mechanic Martin Palushka and farmer Jan Sokol, as a hobby and without any painting craft. Other villagers soon joined them, an art section was founded under the auspices of the Cultural and Educational Association "Pokrok", until 1952, when the first exhibition with the works of the first 12 naive painters was held. Three years later, the Gallery of Peasant Painters opened at the House of Culture, the first in Yugoslavia at the time.
And when Martin Jonas and his peasants with giant hands and feet, whose graphics were printed in gold by the Italians, and Zuzana Halupova, whose picturesque children's figures achieved meteoric success by ending up on Unicef postcards, were busy with their brushes, journalists, diplomats, tourists arrived in tiny Kovačica, and the story of her naïves is irresistibly going out into the world.
During this year's festival, the exhibition "Reformers of Slavic literacy and language among the Slavic peoples in Europe" was opened in the Babka Gallery in Kovačica, the "Primer of Slovak naive painting in Serbia" by Juraj Hamar was presented, and a digitized monograph on Zuzana Halupova and Martin Jonas will be promoted.
An exhibition was opened in Belgrade at the Institute for the Study of Cultural Development The anniversaries of Slovak naive painting in Serbia, on which there are works about the daily life of painters from Kovačica who are celebrating jubilees.
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