In the head of Peter Sceranky

PAVLA LUCIA MATÚŠ ZUZANA SCERANKOVI

Exhibition: 10 November - 31 December 2022, extended until 7 January 2023

Accompanying text: Zuzana Sceranková st.

The four siblings pay tribute to their father with this joint installation. And the mother writes the text.

Sometimes it happens that death fails
to silence the song,
that sounded in the lives of the long lost dead.
It happens,
that in time, that song will ring out again.
Brighter, stronger, with new and rich tones.

I am lucky enough to have experienced this with my children.
Our children.
Pavla Lucia Matthew Zuzana
All our children are a reflection, a picture, a symphony of tones,
that sounded in their father's life.
I see and hear Peter when I see and hear our children.
A breathtaking talent. Amazing creativity. Incredible playfulness.
Humour and joy.
Consistency, diligence, responsiveness, focus.
Kindness and curiosity.
Slight melancholy, occasional uncertainty and explosiveness.

The song I hear in our children's lives mirrors our life together, a life I dreamed up and which has vanished like the morning mist over the lake. This song is the best way to fool death.

Zuzana Sceranková, mother

PETER SCERANKA was an important Slovak artist who worked in the 1980s and 1990s. He was born in 1955 in Košice. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, where he graduated in the studio of figurative sculpture in 1981. After graduating he lived and worked in his hometown. He and his wife Zuzana had four children: Pavla *1980, Lucia *1985, Matúš *1988, Zuzana *1993.

Peter's works have been presented at several solo and group exhibitions, for example at the Július Jakoby Gallery (now VSG) in Košice (1994), at the Vojtech Loffler Museum (KE, 1996), at the A Miskolc Gallery (Miskolc, 1997) or at the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava (1996). He has been primarily devoted to sculpture and drawing, which has gradually become an equal mode of expression for him. In the category of drawing he won the highest award at the 10th International Biennial in Barcelona (1992). In 1997 he won the competition for the M.R. Štefánik memorial together with the architect Juraj Koban.

Unfortunately he could not complete the project. After an insidious illness in the spring of 1999 Peter died.

Photo: Mikhail Slava