Eva Cisarova Minarikova

Cisárová-Mináriková, Eva, 16/12/1945 Cífer, district Trnava — Slovak textile artist, wife of I. Minárik. In the years 1961–65, she studied at the High School of Textiles in Brno (textile design department) with the famous textile artist Bohdan Mrázek (*1931, †2009) and in the years 1966–72 in the studio of Free Painting and Tapestry at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava (with P. Matejko). In the years 1990 – 2008, she worked at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, where in 1991 she founded the studio of Free Textile Creation with the concept of teaching the history of textiles, old textile techniques, and from 1995 also teaching the restoration of historical textiles. She created original woven tapestries with copies of fragments from late Gothic tapestries, confronted with relief and perforated binding weaving. Later, she also started creating textile books with collages of embroidered monograms from 19th century wedding accessories, calligraphic knot notebooks and frottage sheets, three-dimensional miniature textile objects and jewelry. Since 1972, she has been researching the historical embroidery of the Izabella Association, while publishing and exhibiting their works, and in 2017 she conceived and realized the Memorial Room of Sacred Embroidery of Mária Hollósa at the parish office in Cíferi. She also wrote the publication Mária Hollósy: Rediscovered Embroidery 1858 – 1945 (2000) on this topic.