Palo Macho has devoted himself to cooperation with various Slovak artists for almost 14 years. At the beginning of the project, there was the cooperation with Laco Teren, a painter, which gave rise to four circles with a diameter of 90 centimetres. It began at the symposium Cut onto the Country 2 in...

Palo Macho, maliar, sklár, pedagóg, a básnik (1965) patrí k najvýraznejším osobnostiam slovenskej kultúrnej scény súčasnosti. Svojou unikátnou, nekonvenčnou výtvarnou (a literárnou) tvorbou si získal vysoký umelecký kredit doma aj v zahraničí.

Poznávacím znamením Machových prác je inovácia: inovác...

The oeuvre of Pavol Macho (born 22 September 1965 in Streženice near Púchov, Slovakia), the young talented glass artist representing contemporary Slovak glass, rightly captures our attention. His work differs from that of his contemporaries and even from that of his predecessors. He follows his own...

The artistic cooperation between Palo Macho and a guest artist is delineated by their common work, into which both artists bring the specificities of their discipline. In doing so, both of them look for opportunities to mutually interconnect, transpose and overlap these peculiarities. The resulting...

The intermedial character of Palo Macho’s work, his persistent quest for common boundaries between different artistic media and new possibilities for their conceptual fusion are frequent subject of discussion. I will, therefore, focus from the outset on an aspect that theory of art and philosophical...

The body, in opposition to the needs of the spirit, has always been a major topic of Western visual culture. Its surface, gestures, colours, folds and proportions have never ceased to attract, fascinate, inspire, but also to repulse or appal. It has served as a symbol of divinity, beauty and perfect...

Jozef Jankovič and Palo Macho: two artists, one exhibition. At first sight, easy arithmetic. After having a look at the different artifacts, however, you begin to realize it is not so easy. In fact, you will find three different groups – or subsets, if you prefer mathematics – of artifacts. The firs...

Palo Macho is, indeed, one of the most original contemporary Slovak glass artists, known mostly for his innovative approach to glass. The uniqueness of his position lies in the fact that he has been working with painting on and in glass for a long time, and has achieved remarkable results and recogn...

Macho: You first visited my studio in 2000. Since then, you have systematically followed the evolution of my work. You have also initiated, organised and even curated several of the shows at which my works have been exhibited. Back then, how did my work arouse your curiosity?

Michalovič:...

The present exhibition continues the successful cooperation between two artists working not only with different topics, but also with different media as well: Palo Macho, a painter working with glass, and Jana Hostričová, a photographer. On Macho’s initiative, different co-authored projects have ori...

Palo Macho is the only artist within the Slovak glass art scene to have chosen painting on glass. This somehow ambiguous position makes him kind of an outsider. Despite being essentially a painter, you will not find him listed in the catalogs of contemporary painting. Instead, he will be included am...

Cooperation between two creative personalities can produce results of different persuasive power. One of them yielding to the other would most probably enfeeble the individual accomplishments of both artists. On the contrary, too much mutual respect could result in a rather average outcome (for inst...

Everyone who reads even the shortest curriculum vitae of Palo Macho easily discovers that his training and present activities are linked to those of a glass artist whose work evolves in diverse facets. He is an artist passionately experimenting, searching for diverse stimuli, an artist involved in l...

Palo Macho and Svatopluk Mikita’s common project was Macho’s idea. It is the result of his urge to explore the synergy potential of different media. Indeed, his perfect knowledge of glass and his sovereign mastery of the techniques make it possible for him to introduce other artists into the world o...

L ́arroseur arrosé (The Sprinkler Sprinkled) - is originally a short film at the beginning of the history of film making. The plot is simple: a gardener is watering his garden when suddenly a naughty boy steps on his hose. Thinking that the hose is clogged, the gardener turns the end of the hose tow...

Even ancient philosophers knew that vision cannot be taken as given. In an attempt to explain it, they argued that it takes an environment, a medium or an element to make it possible. This element is called translucency. It is the medium that mediates vision without being visible. It is, therefore,...

The joint creation of two different artists is not only an interesting, but also a risky venture. It is not different in the case of the common objects by Jana Hojstričová and Palo Macho.

Everything would be o.k. if we considered Jana Hojstričová´s photographs and Palo Macho´s glass abstract paint...