Klára Bočkayová, an important figure in Slovak art, appeared on the stage at the beginning of the 1970s as an artist with a focused interest in the medium of painting and drawing. In 1974 she started working with an adopted banal pattern from rural and city households of the 19th and first-half of the 20th centuries (tablecloths, doylies, embroideries). The artist draws from this needlework when she makes her frottage works that are an ironic reflection of women’s status in society. Bočkayová applies the frottage technique, invented by Max Ernst in the 1920s, to paper, canvas and fine grain white fabric and following her own experiments transforms it into her specific technique – so-called phased frottage.
