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1987<br />

journal Výtvarný život published an article by L’ubomír<br />

Podušel called Slovenská národná galéria o budúcnosti<br />

(The Slovak National Gallery about the future) 29 .<br />

1988<br />

the former director of the SNG Dr. Karol Vaculík published<br />

a catalogue/publication 30 dedicated to the history of the<br />

gallery on its 40th anniversary. An article on the construction<br />

of this institution was also published by an actual director<br />

Dr. Mruškovič in Výtvarný život 31 .<br />

1990<br />

in his article “Hriechy architektúry” (The Sins of<br />

Architecture), Professor Štefan Šlachta, architect, historian,<br />

(after 1989) post-revolution Dean of The Academy of Fine<br />

Arts and Design in Bratislava and politician, commented<br />

on Dedeček’s Archive and the Supreme Court buildings in<br />

Bratislava as well as on the question of context or lack of<br />

context of Dedeček's extension of the SNG: “One of the<br />

dominant architectural sins is the Slovak National Gallery –<br />

more precisely the extended part of the old Water Barracks.<br />

(...) The aggressiveness of the mass of the gallery towards the<br />

neighbouring objects is the first characteristic mistake of the<br />

author's concept. (...) The misunderstanding of the “genius<br />

loci” is most distinctively documented by the solution of the<br />

gallery courtyard. More precisely the former courtyard that<br />

used to be here but ‘left’ with the new solution. (...) Although<br />

the filled and elevated area of the court has created space<br />

to exhibit sculptures, it has destroyed the possibility of their<br />

cultural perception and feeling.” 32<br />

1991<br />

Slovak magazine Projekt published a review of mentioned<br />

Dedeček’s building of the Supreme court of Slovak Socialist<br />

Republic in Bratislava. The authors of the review, architects<br />

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