We create for ourselves, for friends, acquaintances, strangers, and for future generations. We know the past, but it could not have known us, and we can no longer change it. But the future—yes, that we can change. Robert Hromec’s art has been remarkably poetic and consistent for more than two decades. Over that time, he…
Hromec’s art might, at first, seem more like a chemical reaction than a painting. Sweeping paint strokes sputter across each other, colliding and twisting apart again. A mark from what could only have been a circular sander wanders its way into the chaos, eating away layers of paint and revealing a gleaming aluminum canvas underneath.…
The hand expresses the idea of activity, the concept of a regal emblem, an instrument of authority, power and domination. In the languages of the Far East, the hand is associated with actions tied to spiritual reception and the interior experience of a microcosm that escapes spatial and temporal conditioning. Robert Hromec, even before adding…
Robert Hromec’s new mixed-media work comes out of his extensive engagement with traditional forms of lithography and intaglio, but its exciting qualities owe more to his work as a painter, specifically with color and graphic design. In its formal sophistication, innovative use of materials, and atmospheric vitality, the work questions traditional painting even as it…
One of Robert Hromec’s favorite authors, Herman Hesse (on whom the author of these words also grew up), in his premier work, The Glass Bead Game, wrote, “…from a certain standpoint ordinary people can more easily and less responsibly express in words things that do not exist rather than those which do, whereas for a…
Robert Hromec is a rare and unusual talent. He is, all at the same time, an artist, an anthropologist, and an archaeologist. His works function on three different levels, each addressing the tripod of his artistic nature. First there is the artist, the visual level, the level of what you see before you, the work…
First of all I would really like to say thanks for this wonderful opportunity to write a few words about an artist who has influenced not only my life and my outlook on today’s artistic creation, but who has moreover influenced the modern painting and drawing scene in Slovakia, as well as in the last…
The central topic of The Panopticum of Senses paintings by Robert Hromec is the interrelation between mankind’s consciousness and his senses. It actually goes even one step further, by trying to enter into the marginal field of the interchangeability of our senses or the metamorphosis of the idiosyncrasies of each single sense into the area…
Inspirational returns to cultural history have a great influence on Robert Hromec – especially to the cradle of European civilization, Greek art, philosophy and literature. Up until today they remain an immense paradigm for the development of human thinking. As the artist says, “Everything derives from the figure, and we can manage to influence it.”…
The exhibition at the Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum is one of your largest independent presentations during your time on the artistic scene. What form will your artistic offering take in this space ?The centre-point of the exhibition is primarily conceived as large –format pictures coming out of the last two or three years. The space…