Josef Jankovič is one of the most prominent representatives of Slovak sculpture of the second half of the 20th century. During the 1960s, he absorbed the impulses of American pop art and European New Realism, and since then the central motif of his work has been the human figure, set in the context of the turbulent Central European history of the second half of the 20th century. The human figure, or only its parts (hands, feet, head) created mainly in white plaster and often painted with basic signal colors, is stylized or deformed and expresses the fate of man, his dramas, individual social destiny, isolation and alienation against the background of totalitarian power, but often also with a significant dose of grotesque and irony.
