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THE
CORRIDOR OF TOLERANCE
AT
MOJMÍROVCE MANOR HOUSE
Latest addition to
the Mojmírovce Manor House decorations is the hall of tolerance with
which they are trying to accentuate the real meaning ofthe word
tolerance, which means for today and for the future the basic meaning
for preservation of the civilization in the world. In this corridor they
are inviting the visitors to try to find through the art and religion
contiguous points that are bringing people together. Spectres that the
artist depicts in their paintings of half round shapes are visions or
symbols of different religions.
We can see two
paintings depicting Indian Hinduism by
Táňa Zitanová, two paintings depicting Greek
mythology-winged Daidalos and Ikaros and typical figure of ancient Egypt
by Jana Sabíková-Farmanová. We also can see paintings depicitg Taoism,
seven intelectuals and Confucius by chinese painter living in Bratislava
Paolo Zhang. We can also
find well known sitting Buddha by Soňa Heréniová. Following we can see
paintings depicting Christianism-Old and New Testament by young artist
Rasťo Podoba. Last two paintings are depicting Islam by Blažej Mikuš.
All paintings are full of symbols;
each motif is certain exactly caught authentic spectre of that or other
religion. Beautiful crystal chandeliers light up the corridor and they
are giving it historic atmosphere. They are made by well-known artist
from Brno, Lea Raisová. The
half round shaped paintings are hanged immediately under the ceiling of
the corridor and the space under the paintings will be used to display
portraits of important religious personalities from the history of man
kind. First two paintings are finished-portrait of the reformer of
Catholic church Martin Luther by Ingrid Zámecníková and portrait of
Mahatma Ghandi, who himself is the symbol of tolerance, by Táňa
Zitanová. All authors are well known Slovak painters.
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Published in the Slovak Heritage Live
newsletter Volume
13, No.3, Fall 2005
Copyright © Vladimir Linder 2004
3804 Yale Street, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5C 1P6
The above article and photographs may not be copied,
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