Juraj kralik martina navratilova biography
With the collaboration of tennis star Martina Navratilova, Juro had worked tirelessly over nine years to materialize his artistic vision for Art Grand Slam.!
Navratilova was creating art.
Navratilova was first approached about the project in 2000. |
Navratilova, 50, has been working on the project in secret for four years with Slovak artist Juraj Kralik.
"What I like is that you hit the ball but you don't exactly know what you're doing," she told the AFP news agency.
More than 60 canvases have been created for the Art Grand Slam show at Roland-Garros, home of the French Open.
Kralik came up with the project in Navratilova's Czech home town, where she first learnt how to play the game.
Navratilova, 50, has been working on the project in secret for four years with Slovak artist Juraj Kralik.He first put the idea to Navratilova in 2000. Between 2001 and 2005, the pair created the works on the courts of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments in New York, Melbourne, Paris and Wimbledon.
The tennis balls were covered in paint and hit onto a canvas that was hung on a wall or laid out on the ground at each of the four Grand Sla