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on 14 th March, the Týždeň magazine published articles<br />
by architects Matúš Vallo 76 and Ján Bahna 77 which<br />
commented on the Slovak National Gallery.<br />
Ján Bahna wrote about Dedeček: “This architect was<br />
almost unknown to the Prague Spring generation.<br />
The theorists also showed no great interest in the work<br />
of this titan of typification. Everything began after the book<br />
Eastmodern was published in 2007 in which two Slovak<br />
expatriates discovered Slovak monuments from the socialist<br />
era. (...) Architect Dedeček became active in the period<br />
of sorela [Socialist Realism]. He was inspired at that time<br />
by the architectural icon Oskar Niemeyer. The elements<br />
of monumental Brazil impressed the young graduate and<br />
he implemented them in his works in the smaller Slovakia.<br />
It was still logical in Nitra [Slovak University of Agriculture in<br />
Nitra]. However, when he entered the city with these solitaires,<br />
he crashed with an existing structure. He had big problems<br />
with the Slovak National Gallery, his wife [art historian, SNG<br />
Drawing Collection curator Ol’ga Dedečková] suffered from<br />
them and the public suffered from them too. The building<br />
has never been completely finished. [Slovak actor] Milan<br />
Lasica writes in his letters to [his friend, Slovak actor] Stano<br />
Štepka in the Slovenské pohl’ady magazine: ‘When this<br />
Le Corbusier of the third generation, the designer of the<br />
National Gallery, was asked questions about his project he<br />
replied with the typical arrogance that he is creating works<br />
for the 21 st century.’” 78<br />
Architect Matúš Vallo, who is two generations younger<br />
to architect Ján Bahna wrote: “It is the opportunities that often<br />
make the difference. Of course, no contract or client can help<br />
an architect who does not take his/her job seriously and does<br />
not have some additional value – talent, experience<br />
or an open mind. / In the past this was very much the truth<br />
about Vladimír Dedeček. As he told me with modesty<br />
in the interview for this magazine [.týždeň], the attention<br />
he is being currently given is also the result of the fact<br />
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