Kateřina Vincourová / "WHENEVER YOU SAY."

The events that are present in Tomáš Bárta's paintings take place between two spaces and the partition between them. These pictures inevitably set a "backward course" through the history of European painting, all the way back to Leon Battista Alberti’s reflections on the construction of pictorial space which he incorporated into his seminal work De pictura (1435). However, instead of a well-organised renaissance arrangement, Bárta offers us more ambiguous spatial relations and a spectral illusion of the objects inhabiting his paintings, as if architecture produced its own ghosts.

Kateřina Vincourová / "WHENEVER YOU SAY."

23.03.2016 - 04.06.2016

Fait Gallery
Ve Vaňkovce 2, Brno
23rd March - 4th June 2016
Opening: 23rd March 2016 at 7 pm

Photo: Martin Polák

Kateřina Vincourová does not exhibit often, so her exhibitions are naturally more concentrated. After some time, she now returns to the Fait Gallery with a project, in which she develops several parallel interlinking themes, particularly memory, body and the routine of everyday life. On one side there is the idea of travelling in time, in the sense of a collective as well as personal history, whilst on the other side there is the exploration of hidden, sometimes almost ethereal forms of physicality. The connector for both is a cross of sophisticated work with banality, thanks to which the author is able to take the most ordinary of materials and tell the most powerful of stories, these are often randomly found items and fragments of the material world. Kateřina Vincourová entered the Czech art scene in the early 90s of the last century and in 1996 she became the first woman to win the Jindřich Chalupecký Prize. The exhibition "WHENEVER YOU SAY.", in which Vincourová connects her sense for handmade detail and intimacy with the monumental scale of generous space in Vaňkovka in Brno, follows up the author's extensive exhibition in Špála Gallery in Prague (2014) and also anticipates her presentation at the exhibition Bittersüße Transformation (Bittersweet changes), which will be opened at the Kunsthaus in Graz, Austria from the end of May this year.

Martina Pachmanová, Curator of the exhibition

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