Michal Škoda / Interweaving
22.05.2024 - 27.07.2024
Fait Gallery, Ve Vaňkovce 2, Brno
Curator: Silvia L. Čúzyová
Opening: 22nd May, 7 pm
Michal Škoda (1962) works with a reduced abstract form and executes his subjects - interest in space and architecture, the place for man, archiving of existence, and everyday life – by means of various techniques. Škoda's representational exhibition INTERWEAVING is not a retrospective but a focused continuation of his creative interaction with Places with Specific Qualities. The exhibition, alongside the presentation of new works in the current series of objects and drawings, offers a unique opportunity to look into the "laboratory" of individual artistic thinking.
Svätopluk Mikyta / Ornamentiana
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Fait Gallery MEM
Ve Vaňkovce 2, Brno
30. 11. 2016 - 17. 1. 2017
Vernissage: 30.11.2016 at 19:00
Curators:: Lucia Tkáčová & Anetta Mona Chisa
Svätopluk Mikyta experiments for a long time with materiality and visuality, and in his work playfully rearranges potential of the existing in the direction to the past and the future. His work is "hauntological" (Derrida), meaning that his themes and the creative process are marked by the „disjointed time". He does not address the time point of pure origin, always only the absent presence: big and small history, remixing of signs and symbols, designing new iconographies, samples of the new collective memories, alternatives of the reality tunnels, creating new beginnings and new ends, recycling of the old grammar, discarded books and dumped materials.
ORNAMENTIANA creates a fresh grid of correlations and searches for a new aesthetic. Remix of techniques and materials, collage-like installation approach, exploration of the very notion of „art” lead to a choreographed experience that includes the viewer into the overall assemblage.
ORNAMENTIANA changes the axes of our three-dimensional arena. It is based on Cartesian choreography of space, on regular but also moving grid of horizontals and verticals.
ORNAMENTIANA is a levitating surface full of relationships moving to the complexity of time and space, a visual manifest, detachment from the gravity of the committed towards the infinity, weightlessness, universality.
ORNAMENTIANA is a horizontal landscape, flat surface, horizontal sculpture, in which the unique vertical is made by the visitor of the exhibition, whose presence expands it by another coordinate.
ORNAMENTIANA reconstructs and translates ornaments, renders new visibility and allows the viewer to feel the archaeology of time. It is reoccurring use and subsequent stigmatization of folklore. Past future, future past.
ORNAMENTIANA is the acceleration of existing aesthetics. Exploring of the visual and material nature of perceiving of the world here and now. Anadigilogtal.
ORNAMENTIANA reviews the formal aspects of art on the border between high and low, the circumstances of their production in the context of never sleeping society.
ORNAMENTIANA is non-hierarchical, de-centralized, de-politicized. It denies the affirmative, fixed position, proclaiming, barricades and it contradicts our vision about our demonstrative political-activist gesture.
T: Lucia Tkáčová & Anetta Mona Chisa
