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THIS! is a kind of gallery that displays illustrations - pictures that we remember from the books we read as children, and from the ones we now read with our children. But we often don't even know the illustrators who painted them: after all, who would think of looking for a name written in tiny letters somewhere at the end of a book. And so we often miss how wonderful the Slovak tradition of illustration is. And that illustration is as much a work of art as painting or graphic art. It deserves to hang in a gallery. Or in your home.
Mission
We are looking for lost originals of illustrations from children's books: it is often the case that when the author is lost, so is his work - it survives somewhere in cupboards, drawers, is badly stored... many beautiful illustrations have already been destroyed - faded, torn, soaked... We are trying to save them: to exhibit them, to describe how they were created, to get them into our or other good collections, to talk about them with people who come to our gallery. Simply, to do everything we can to make sure that neither the works nor those who created them are forgotten.
Vision
There is a lot that we still want to do - we are looking in archives, in collections, we are planning more and more exhibitions (we already know whose works we will exhibit in a few years), we want to bring illustrations to the regions of Slovakia, to other galleries, so that you don't have to travel all the way to Bratislava to see them, and especially now we are looking for a space for the Museum of Illustration... because we are convinced that those fragile pictures for the stories deserve to have a place "just for themselves".
Who we are
Miloš Kopták
artist, painter, illustrator, studied literature and art education at the Faculty of Education in Banská Bystrica, later graphic design and book illustration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava in the studio of prof. Dušan Kállay. He is engaged in painting, drawing, spatial creation, land art and book illustration. He cooperates with domestic and foreign publishers. He is the recipient of many awards. In 2006 he founded a free platform ASIL - Association of Illustrators in Slovakia. In May 2010, together with Mária Rojko and Ida Želinská, they opened ASIL Gallery on Štefánikova Street. in Bratislava and in September 2014 TOTO! is a gallery.
Maria Rojko
graphic designer, studied with Stanislav Stankóci and Pavel Choma at the Academy of Fine Arts, is the author of several book covers, booklets and corporate visuals and magazines (e.g. Zornička and Včielka), was behind the founding of ASIL Gallery (in 2010), collaborates with Slovak music bands, music and book publishers. In September 2014, together with Ida Želinská and Miloš Kopták, they opened a gallery focused on book illustration TOTO! is a gallery. In 2016, she co-founded the Union of Graphic Designers of Slovakia.
Ida Želinská
Consultant and manager of cultural, community and social projects. She graduated from the Faculty of Education at Comenius University. Since 2009 she has collaborated with Mária Rojko and Miloš Kopták on projects related to illustration. In 2009 and 2010 she was the editor-in-chief of the children's magazines Zornička and Včielka, later she was behind the founding of ASIL Gallery (in 2010), and gradually in all the projects of the civic association TOTO! - cultural playground. She does not draw - but she writes about illustration and illustrators in the gallery.