Risoto Design was founded in mid-February 2020 as a small graphic studio that wanted to offer graphic designers, art enthusiasts, or publishers the opportunity to learn about the risography technique.

Although the pandemic that hit the world interfered with their plans, they still tried to enrich the current range of art disciplines with this unique graphic technique that is not well known to the public.

During the pandemic, thanks to cooperation with authors from Slovakia and the Czech Republic, they managed to print more than 50 original graphics. Their creative enthusiasm has not left them, and today, in addition to custom printing with a range of more than 200 motifs, they also have 70 original risographs.

Today's exhibition will present the audience with a selection of 40 works that capture the architecture and unique corners of Bratislava. The original Risoto Design team behind their implementation includes: Kristína Slezáková, Sarah Camilla Pekarčíková, Laura Uhliarová, Ráchel Noemi Izrael, Andrej Čverha and Saumel Fukumori, Tatiana Takančíková, Anton Herényi and Roman Babuščák.

Risography is a modern, graphic technique related to serigraphy, which uses a narrow range of original bright colors, which overlap each other to create very interesting shades. Since subtle color shifts and other imperfections can occur during printing, it is this apparent defect that makes every graphic an original when risography is used. That is why it becomes a sought-after collector's item and is often used to create unique author's graphics, which are printed in limited series and signed by the author.

The expressive elements of risography are primarily based on the linear effect of the drawing and the color surface. It depends on the author's creativity how he handles these elements, so the result is bright panoramas of nature, silhouettes of cities, convincing forms of architectural solitaires, but also portraits, still lifes or genre scenes.

Exceptional architectural objects belong to the most remarkable artistic reflections of reality in the risography technique. This technique, precisely because it can emphasize individual details of buildings, choose a suitable perspective or angle of view and of course create a magical space for the given architecture, has many advantages, for which it is sought after by collectors and ordinary viewers.

The creative team of Risoto Design, which participated in the creation of the collection "View of Bratislava through a grid", is extremely creative and each of the authors brings a unique style and handwriting. It depends only on the degree of imagination and the ability of the author to stamp the seal of authenticity on individual works and of course on the viewer's imagination, sensitivity and willingness to enter into a dialogue with the architectural highlights of Bratislava.

Exhibiting authors:

Sarah Camilla Pekarčíková (1998)studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, majoring in graphics and other media. He is dedicated to graphic techniques and painting with multimedia overlays. Her free work is a reflection of topics that connect her personal experiences and problems with current social situations, especially family, discrimination, contemporary culture....

Kristina Slezáková (1993)she is a graduate of Tomáš Bata University in Zlín, department of digital design. She mainly devoted herself to computer graphics and UI/UX design. Today she creates digital illustrations, but she is also interested in traditional drawing in a realistic version, for which she is inspired mainly by the works of Renaissance and Baroque masters. In her free work, she was primarily interested in portraiture.

Laura Uhliarová (1994)she is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, majoring in visual communication. She mainly devoted herself to animation and game creation, later mainly illustration creation and work for Risoto Design, where she was primarily interested in the ecological essence of this technique. She created several risographs with an architectural theme, and her works are characterized by geometry, precise shapes and a clean white background.

Rachel Noemi Israel (1996)she studied at the Josef Vydra School of Applied Art in Bratislava, majoring in textile design. Subsequently, she graduated from the Metropolitan University in Budapest, majoring in graphic design. In his work, he very creatively combines traditional graphic work with precise and prompt drawing.

Samuel Fukumori (1998)is a native of Bratislava who has been drawing and illustrating since high school. He studied at the Bohumil Bača Private School of Art Industry and since 2020 he has been studying animation at L'école de l'image GOBELINS in Paris. His main inspiration is mostly illustrated books and graphics from the times of the Soviet Union.

Andrej Čverha / Ave Lårsen(1984) is a graduate of Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín, department of multimedia communication. As an illustrator, through his long-term work in the field of industrial design, he has created an authentic visual language in which he places primary emphasis on the meaningful simplification and comprehensibility of complicated shapes.

Admission is FREE.

The event is brought to you by the Bratislava-Ružinov district as part of the international multi-genre festival Symphony of Arts.

Main partner:studio Risoto Design

Organizer: CULTUS Ružinov,studio Risoto Design

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