My bachelor project is inspired by the last page spectacle of the book Victor Hugo's book

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame de Paris, which was always a strong emotional impulse for me.

As for the mysterious disappearance of Quasimodo,

this is all that we have been able to discover.

About eighteen months or two years after the events

which terminate this story, when search was made

in that cavern for the body of Olivier le Daim, who

had been hanged two days previously, and to whom

Charles VIII. had granted the favor of being buried in

Saint Laurent, in better company, they found among

all those hideous carcasses two skeletons, one of

which held the other in its embrace. One of these

skeletons, which was that of a woman, still had a few

strips of a garment which had once been white, and

around her neck was to be seen a string of adrézarach

beads with a little silk bag ornamented with green

glass, which was open and empty. These objects were

of so little value that the executioner had probably

not cared for them. The other, which held this one

in a close embrace, was the skeleton of a man. It was

noticed that his spinal column was crooked, his head

seated on his shoulder blades, and that one leg was

shorter than the other. Moreover, there was no fracture

of the vertebrae at the nape of the neck, and it

was evident that he had not been hanged. Hence, the

man to whom it had belonged had come thither and

had died there. When they tried to detach the skeleton

which he held in his embrace, he fell to dust.

(The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugo)

I decided to recreate this spectacle in my personal Silver technique - linear drawing by dry needle tip in silver foil glued to cardboard . It is a panel made up of nine cardboards (100x70cm) , which is complemented by space - a path, formed by cardboards on the floor .
Work is related to works arising from a sense of deep loss of a loved one . It is about the search for peace and reconciliation . About hope - one shall open his eyes in order to find the beauty embracing him.
It is a silver altar, with which one shall experience an intimate moment of searching and finding. Moment of silent questions and silent answers.
Alone. Like You.

This is my last work at Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia.
This is my farewell piece, gesture of final goodbye with AFAD.

available for public:
9.-11.5.2014
Academy of Fine Arts and Design

Drotárska cesta 44, Bratislava

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