The form follows... risk
24.05.07 - 29.07.07
Galerie Futura, Karlín Studios
Co-organizer of the exhibition: Slovak National Gallery
The international exhibition titled Form follows ...risk presents contemporary sculpture and architecture that seek a new form within a complex and hybrid whole. The new complexity incorporates a multitude of components, found objects, solid and liquid forms, materials, and media, including photography and video, which act simultaneously. Paradoxically, artists and architects manage to maintain the whole. The complex structure is ostentatiously displayed to our view, even though it is ultimately wrapped or covered by a unifying layer that calms its surface and contradictory form. This approach alludes at first glance to the tradition of Dadaism, neo-Dadaism, and Fluxus: to a mode of artistic practice where the material from the non-artistic world and its aesthetic stylization do not matter. All the hard-to-reconcile components enter the whole as an infinite possibility of its transformations.
In recent years, sculpture has taken on a rather conceptual form, voluntarily relinquishing a firmer shape, mostly resembling installation, and opened up to the free interpretation of the viewer, who was in fact its center and main actor.
The concept of the exhibition Form follows... risk deliberately pursues the opposite approach: the complex form retains its contradictions, randomness, and openness to various interpretations, but becomes a complex whole where the real values of the material and the real, non-conceptual presence of the work activate the space. There is no simplification involved. The entirety of the work remains uncertain, difficult to comprehend, and corresponds to the current form of our globalized identity.
The exhibition presents for the first time in a long time a confrontation between sculpture and architecture with the hope that in their mutual reflection, an urgent form of contemporary complexity will emerge. The exhibition will feature several prominent figures of contemporary American and European sculpture and architecture, as well as a number of young artists participating in the critical transformation of contemporary art.
The exhibition will be transferred to the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava in August.
Exhibition Curators: Jana and Jiří Ševčík, Monika Mitášová
Exhibition Concept: Jana and Jiří Ševčík, VVP AVU Prague, Monika Mitášová, SNG and IUV VŠVU Bratislava, Marian Zervan, Benjamín Bradňanský, and Vit Halada, Department of Architecture.
Exhibiting Artists:
Asymptote /USA/, Benjamín Brádňanský and Vít Halada /SK/, Coop Himmelb(l)au /AT/, Jiří Černický /CZ/, Dana Čupková-Myers /USA/, Jiří David /CZ/, Tomáš Džadoň /SK/, Christian Gebhardt /DE/, Vlado Havrilla /SK/, Rachel Harrison /USA/, HŠH /CZ/, Martin Horák /CZ/, Chalupa architekti /CZ/, Marek Meduna /CZ/, Milan Houser /CZ/, Minimaforms /USA/, NOX /NL/, IVA /SK/, KSA /CZ, SK/, Roland Kollnitz /AT/, Christian Korth /G/, Eva Koťátková /CZ/, Jiří Kovanda /CZ/, Michal Kuzemenský /CZ/, Denisa Lehocká /SK/, Václav Litvan /CZ/, Petr Lysáček /CZ/, Iveta Pilařová /CZ/, Petr Písářík /CZ/, Luděk Rathouský /CZ/, Lukáš Rittstein /CZ/, R&Sie(n) /FR/, Joe Scanlan /USA/, Pavla Sceranková /SK/, Fabian Seiz /AT/, Jiří Skála /CZ/, Vladimír Skrepl /CZ/, Peter Stec /SK/, Evžen Šimera /CZ/, Hana Vinklárková /CZ/, Franz West /AT/, Dušan Záhoranský /SK/, Zerozero /SK/, Radoslav Zrubec /SK/, Petr Zubek /CZ/
Galerie Futura, Karlín Studios
Co-organizer of the exhibition: Slovak National Gallery
The international exhibition titled Form follows ...risk presents contemporary sculpture and architecture that seek a new form within a complex and hybrid whole. The new complexity incorporates a multitude of components, found objects, solid and liquid forms, materials, and media, including photography and video, which act simultaneously. Paradoxically, artists and architects manage to maintain the whole. The complex structure is ostentatiously displayed to our view, even though it is ultimately wrapped or covered by a unifying layer that calms its surface and contradictory form. This approach alludes at first glance to the tradition of Dadaism, neo-Dadaism, and Fluxus: to a mode of artistic practice where the material from the non-artistic world and its aesthetic stylization do not matter. All the hard-to-reconcile components enter the whole as an infinite possibility of its transformations.
In recent years, sculpture has taken on a rather conceptual form, voluntarily relinquishing a firmer shape, mostly resembling installation, and opened up to the free interpretation of the viewer, who was in fact its center and main actor.
The concept of the exhibition Form follows... risk deliberately pursues the opposite approach: the complex form retains its contradictions, randomness, and openness to various interpretations, but becomes a complex whole where the real values of the material and the real, non-conceptual presence of the work activate the space. There is no simplification involved. The entirety of the work remains uncertain, difficult to comprehend, and corresponds to the current form of our globalized identity.
The exhibition presents for the first time in a long time a confrontation between sculpture and architecture with the hope that in their mutual reflection, an urgent form of contemporary complexity will emerge. The exhibition will feature several prominent figures of contemporary American and European sculpture and architecture, as well as a number of young artists participating in the critical transformation of contemporary art.
The exhibition will be transferred to the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava in August.
Exhibition Curators: Jana and Jiří Ševčík, Monika Mitášová
Exhibition Concept: Jana and Jiří Ševčík, VVP AVU Prague, Monika Mitášová, SNG and IUV VŠVU Bratislava, Marian Zervan, Benjamín Bradňanský, and Vit Halada, Department of Architecture.
Exhibiting Artists:
Asymptote /USA/, Benjamín Brádňanský and Vít Halada /SK/, Coop Himmelb(l)au /AT/, Jiří Černický /CZ/, Dana Čupková-Myers /USA/, Jiří David /CZ/, Tomáš Džadoň /SK/, Christian Gebhardt /DE/, Vlado Havrilla /SK/, Rachel Harrison /USA/, HŠH /CZ/, Martin Horák /CZ/, Chalupa architekti /CZ/, Marek Meduna /CZ/, Milan Houser /CZ/, Minimaforms /USA/, NOX /NL/, IVA /SK/, KSA /CZ, SK/, Roland Kollnitz /AT/, Christian Korth /G/, Eva Koťátková /CZ/, Jiří Kovanda /CZ/, Michal Kuzemenský /CZ/, Denisa Lehocká /SK/, Václav Litvan /CZ/, Petr Lysáček /CZ/, Iveta Pilařová /CZ/, Petr Písářík /CZ/, Luděk Rathouský /CZ/, Lukáš Rittstein /CZ/, R&Sie(n) /FR/, Joe Scanlan /USA/, Pavla Sceranková /SK/, Fabian Seiz /AT/, Jiří Skála /CZ/, Vladimír Skrepl /CZ/, Peter Stec /SK/, Evžen Šimera /CZ/, Hana Vinklárková /CZ/, Franz West /AT/, Dušan Záhoranský /SK/, Zerozero /SK/, Radoslav Zrubec /SK/, Petr Zubek /CZ/
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