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As a student I met Irina, who was also a student, in Rostov Velikiy in Russia. After thirty years Irina found me through social networks. She arrived in Snina and was a guest at the International Fine Art Festival. She joined the project and painted a picture. She started to promote the idea of the project in Saratov. Irina was a TV announcer. Together with her daughter Marina they organised the biggest project presentation we have ever given, got sponsors and approached the personalities. They invited me to Saratov and paid for my trip and stay. They also organised an exhibition of my paintings. Several television companies and various other media came.

Many personalities were painting the pictures, for example the Minister of Culture of the Saratov region Svetlana Krasnoshchokova, the circus director Ivan Kuzmin, artists and non-artists. The well-known actress and philanthropist Chulpan Khamatova also joined the project, and she wrote this on the canvas: „Мы с тобой одной крови“ – „We two are the same blood group“.

Both ladies, mother and daughter, I appointed the ambassadors of the project. Not only they organised a spectacular event with top advertising, but moreover they invited other people to join the project.

saratov

saratov

saratov

saratov

saratov

saratov

In the House of Sports in Bratislava, we made a presentation of the project and the invitation to paint the pictures was accepted by sportsmen - Olympians. Among them was also Roman Hanzel - project manager of the Slovak Olympic Committee, media communication manager SOC Ľubomír Souček, Ján Grexa - sportsman and humorist.

Maľovaný rovník v Dome športu

Maľovaný rovník v Dome športu

Maľovaný rovník v Dome športu

Maľovaný rovník v Dome športu

Maľovaný rovník v Dome športu

Painter Natalia Tarnay organised a presentation of the Painted Equator in Uzhhorod and Egan Pub selflessly provided its rooms. Quite important people came, Natalia told me: "Mr. Andriju, very respected people". Of course, personalities are not just those who are often seen on TV screen. Personalities are people who have created or achieved something in their lives. The personalities are surgeons, scientists, athletes, olympians and paralympians. This does not mean that if we do not know them or we do not know about them, that they are not known in their country.

Užhorod

Užhorod

Užhorod

Užhorod

Užhorod

Kovacica is in Serbia, but there live Slovak peopl, who left 250 years ago to work in a "good country" and have been growing corn until now. During the warm months they cultivated land and during the winter evenings nostalgia for home led them to paint. They painted naively. As they knew, not as they saw. The naive art of Kovacica is well known in the world.

A friend and naive painter Ján Glozik organised a two-day event in the Gallery of Naive Art (Galerija naivne umetnosti) in Kovacica, during which came to paint not only naive artists, but also other various people. The collection of naive pictures will expand and we believe that other naive artists will also be involved in the project.

Kovačica

Kovačica

Kovačica

Kovačica

Kovačica

Kovačica

Kovačica

Kovačica

Kovačica

Kovačica

As an artist I am a member of SAF – Slovak Art Forum. At the general meeting I informed my colleagues about the project and handed out the canvases. The canvas was also taken by Ladislav Jurovatý and in two weeks he brought me a canvas not painted but tinkered. Actually, Mr. Jurovatý came up with the idea and we agreed to involve other tinkers in Slovakia as well as their colleagues from the Czech Republic.

As agreed before we distributed several canvases in a short time and we organised an elegant event in the Budatín Castle of the Považské Museum in Žilina, where an exhibition of unique tinkering art is installed. Let us have a look at the pictures of Slovak and Czech tinkers.

Drotári

Drotári

Drotári

Drotári

Drotári