Year: 2010

Technique: Mooving Videosculpture
Duration: 10 minutes loop
Size: 350 x 350 x 100 cm

Documentation of object

Metropolia

The city hovers authoritatively overhead. A unique view of the colossus in which most of us live. An icon of today’s city in a regular turning rhythm every moment links a new event to itself. The rotating frequencies contain visual and symbolic rhythms of present-day cities. But mostly from Shanghai and Prague. An abstract story of a universal city culminates in several phases and then sinks back into darkness. It’s as if a charge of energy left the space and then after a while returned for another hypnotic cycle.

The relief projection surface is created by a circular construction from the packages of real products originally manufactured in China. This often works as an art object itself, as an illuminated physical casing or it can give space to the projected image.

The aim is to encourage people to confront the city as a whole and to take advantage of its potential (dual) energy, which unfortunately usually manifests itself negatively, for instance on a person’s psyche. Another aim is to find in oneself a positive approach to the city as an inevitable mechanism of today’s society.

Metropolia

Město se vznáší autoritativně nad hlavami lidí. Nezvyklý pohled na kolos, ve kterém většina z nás denně funguje.  Ikona současného města v pravidelném rytmu otáčení na sebe balí každým okamžikem nové dění. Rotující  frekvence obsahují  vizuální i symbolické rytmy současných měst. Převážně však z Shanghaie a Prahy. Abstraktní příběh univerzálního města graduje v několika fázích a opět se noří do tmy. Jakoby energetický náboj opustil prostor a znovu se po chvíli vrátil do dalšího hypnotického cyklu.

Reliéfní  projekční povrch tvoří kruhová zástavba z obalů z reálných výrobků původně vyrobených v Číně. Ta občas funguje plasticky samotná pouze jako osvícená fyzická schránka a nebo dává prostor promítanému obrazu.

Cílem je nabádat lidi postavit se k městu jako k celku a naopak využít neztrátově jeho potenciální (duální) energii, která se bohužel projevuje většinou negativně například na psychiku člověka. Cílem je i najít v sobě pozitivní přístup k městu jako nevyhnutelnému mechanismu současné společnosti.

Cultures and Anomalies

Cultures

A world of many cultures appearing from afar more like micro-organic cultures. A semi-transparent structure derived from plant cell casings is filled with the rhythm and natural bustle of everyday life and cultural traditions. The natural sky in the upper part connects to the neutral middle area of the whole all the way to the root part of the controlling system.

Anomaly

An anomaly of unknown origin disrupts a relatively stable structure, just as it unexpectedly happens in all systems. The origin or diagnosis of this problem becomes, even in a relatively artificially created world, all the more complicated and can be guessed. An example can also be the financial crisis which, in this phase of evolution, appears more like a natural catastrophe, whose inevitability we can again only suspect, but it is not in our power to effectively intervene against the inaccessible whole from which it comes.

Kultury a Anomálie

Kultury

Svět mnoha kultur jevící se z dálky spíše jako mikroorganické kultury.  Poloprůhlednou strukturu vycházející z obalů rostlinných buněk vyplňuje rytmus a přirozené hemžení z běžného života i kulturních tradic. Přírodní nebesa v horní části navazuje na neutrální prostřední oblast většinového celku až po kořenovou část řídícího systému.

Anomálie

Relativně stabilní strukturu občas naruší anomálie neznámého původu podobně jako se to nečekaně stává ve všech systémech. Původ nebo diagnoza problému se i v relativně uměle vytvořeném světě stává čím dál složitější a dá se spíše hádat. Příkladem může být i finanční krize, která se v této fázi evoluce jeví spíše jako přírodní katastrofa, jejíž nevyhnutelnost opět jen tušíme, ale není v naší moci efektivně  zasáhnout proti nepřístupnému celku z kterého pochází.

Expo Shanghai 2010

Auras of Communication

The seemingly solitary islands of civilization are closely linked and communicate with each other. Many things carry around them a charged energy full of enigmatic emotions and other information that is not visible by the mere eye. These can even be auras whose existence is proven and even measurable particularly around living creatures.

The dynamic, albeit immobile assemblage of toys on the surface of the objects stylizes contemporary society.  They create clusters similar to planets, cities or a segment of a closely bound atomic structure.  On the whole they show principles or relations that are not apparent around us at first glance, but we know or feel that they have an important function. An example is the question of the presence of a major black whole in space or, for instance, the “unexplored” storage of information in the DNA code which apparently does not have a function. Nevertheless, the strength of a person’s thoughts plays an enormous role in the resulting intricate whole of natural relations. Sent thoughts, emotions and other energy mingle in society, react in this collective consciousness and then return like a boomerang.

Sign language symbolism is intentionally used in the installation for subliminal communication. It has a delayed dispersal as in nature. Each diffusing wave represents a single word that is related to the given theme.

Auras of Communication

Zdánlivě osamocené ostrovy civilizace jsou úzce provázány a komunikují mezi sebou. Mnoho věcí  nese kolem sebe nabité náboje plné záhadných emocí a jiných informací, které nejsou viditelné pouhým okem. Mohou to být i aury, jejichž existence je i prokázána a dokonce i měřitelná hlavně kolem živých bytostí.

Dynamické avšak nehybné asambláže z hraček na povrchu objektů stylizují  současnou společnost. Tvoří shluky podobné planetám, městům nebo výsek úzce provázané atomární struktury. Vcelku ukazují principy nebo vztahy, které okolo nás nejsou na první pohled patrné, ale víme nebo cítíme, že mají důležitou funkci. Příkladem je třeba otázka  přítomnosti většinové černé hmoty ve vesmíru nebo například „neprobádaný“ sklad informací v DNA kodu, jež zdánlivě nemá funkci. Avšak síla myšlenky člověka hraje také obrovskou roli ve výsledném spletitém celku přírodních vztahů. Vysílané myšlenky, emoce a jiné energie se ve společenství mísí, reagují  v tomto kolektivním vědomí a následně se bumerangově vrací .

Pro podprahovou komunikaci  je v instalaci záměrně  použita symbolika znakové řeči. Šíří se ze zpožděním jako v přírodě. Každá putující vlna představuje jedno slovo, které se váže k danému tématu.

The work Processes contemplates the frailty of values that change in the course of life. I created a lab remotely suggestive of a chemistry set with a lot of test tubes. Things that go on in this kind of places in general are hard to grasp for an outsider. Substances interact, alter, change color, condition, burn or even explode. This notion of a lab became the basis of Processes.

I recorded a number of sets, where values, normally incarnated in money, alter and interact in peculiar transparent containers. The containers are mouldings of served out everyday objects and give their shape (design) to further imagery (life). The plexi glass relief becomes a transparent skin, animated by the light imagery (the value phantoms).

Animation series run in different ways anti-clockwise. Values concerning what we usually call “wealth”(money) from the left, by means of filters, often natural, alter towards the right and evoke things like counting of buttons or spikes. At the end all of it gets lost in a dark whirl, where it’s hard to see what happens next. This is an allusion to the crisis we are going through. To me it seems to be a normal natural phenomenon.

My work is a study of the metamorphosis of values and priorities in life.

Iillusional videosculpture with the rotation scructure under the surface of the stone. I found the inspiration in the center of our Earth where is the pith levitate separately. I try to show the emotion that the rock-bottom stand-alone like independent live structure.

New reality sometimes appears to be ephemeral. Illusion intertwines with reality. Information is now constantly being stored – deposited – in digital form for perpetuity. The principle of intangible digitalisation is also one that is most often employed in the transcription of this new reality. Active Sediment is a metaphor for my feelings and for what is happening around us. Just as information about an ancient event is recorded in a layer of rock, the digital reality of our era is ceaselessly being stored in some location. Everything we see, all that we come into contact with, is being passed on and has some kind of influence on the future. All that we emit bundles together to form a fertile layer, spawning further evolution. Thus for me even this apparently immaterial digital illusion constitutes a reality that is physically stored for eternity, as if in an active stratum. This is the sediment of our present era, of one stage of our superorganism’s natural development.

Exhibitions:

Solo exhibitions:

2009
Sediment II, „Sediment Sphere, Cultures, Reactor, Trip, Generator p-730“, Arthobler gallery, Porto, Portugal
Sediment II, „Sediment Sphere, Cultures, Reactor, Trip, Generator p-730“, Arthobler gallery, Lisbon, Portugal

2008
New & Diferent, „Active Sediment, Sediment Sphere”, Galerie Vernon, Padova, Italy

Art Fairs:

2010
Art Basel Art fair, „Sediment Sphere, Reactor, Ayahuasca”, Basel, Switzerland
Arco Art fair, „Sediment Sphere, Reactor, Labo relief ”, Madrid, Spain

2009
Pulse Art fair, „Sediment Sphere, Reactor“, New York, United States of America

A video with real audio is projected into fragments of crafted stone, forming an animation inside a real piece of rock. Wandering particles are organized into a cyclic loop, an eternal loop within a fixed geological skin, an apparently permanent structure of solid matter that is in reality interwoven, as if every particle was coming into contact with all others at the same time.

New reality sometimes appears to be ephemeral. Illusion intertwines with reality. Information is now constantly being stored – deposited – in digital form for perpetuity. The principle of intangible digitalisation is also one that is most often employed in the transcription of this new reality. Active Sediment is a metaphor for my feelings and for what is happening around us. Just as information about an ancient event is recorded in a layer of rock, the digital reality of our era is ceaselessly being stored in some location. Everything we see, all that we come into contact with, is being passed on and has some kind of influence on the future. All that we emit bundles together to form a fertile layer, spawning further evolution. Thus for me even this apparently immaterial digital illusion constitutes a reality that is physically stored for eternity, as if in an active stratum. This is the sediment of our present era, of one stage of our superorganism’s natural development.

Exhibitions:

Solo exhibitions:

2009
Sediment, „Interlinked Sediment, Active Sediment, Cultures, Generator p-730“, Galerie Alain Le Gaillard, Paris, France

New reality sometimes appears to be ephemeral. Illusion intertwines with reality. Information is now constantly being stored – deposited – in digital form for perpetuity. The principle of intangible digitalisation is also one that is most often employed in the transcription of this new reality. Active Sediment is a metaphor for my feelings and for what is happening around us. Just as information about an ancient event is recorded in   alayer of rock, the digital reality of our era is ceaselessly being stored in some location. Everything we see, all that we come into contact with, is being passed on and has some kind of influence on the future. All that we emit bundles together to form a fertile layer, spawning further evolution. Thus for me even this apparently immaterial digital illusion constitutes a reality that is physically stored for eternity, as if in an active stratum. This is the sediment of our present era, of one stage of our superorganism’s natural development. In this work, a video consisting of a randomly selected television programme disseminates through rock according to a principle similar to those guiding a tremor propagating through the earth or communication between the smallest particles in nature. A principle akin to that of a relay, or the chain reaction of tumbling dominos.

Exhibitions:

Solo exhibition:

2009

Sediment, „Interlinked Sediment, Active Sediment, Cultures, Generator p-730“, Galerie Alain Le Gaillard, Paris, France
Processes, „Active Sediment, Labo Relief, Auras of Communities”, Trafo gallery, Prague, CZ

Group exhibitions:

2009
Spectator Novus, „Trip, Active sediment”, Palace Adria, Prague, CZ
Nanoscope, „Ayahuasca, Active sediment”, DOX, Prague, CZ
Nanoscope, „Active Sediment“, University of science, Pardubice, CZ

2008
New & Diferent, „Active Sediment, Sediment Sphere”, Galerie Vernon, Padova, Italy

Art Fairs

2009
Pulse Art fair, „Active Sediment, Reactor“, New York, United States of America

2008
Sanghaj Art Fair, ”Ayahuasca, Active sediment”, China
Beijing Art Salon, Ayahuasca, Active sediment”, China

I randomly selected a broadcast television programme. For me that serves as a kind of symbol or artefact of our time. Its effect, spread around the entire world, in principle has an unfailing influence on a lot of people and has the potential powerfully to change the collective consciousness of our planet.

The television emitter that people sometimes powerlessly and unwittingly stare at, sometimes even as though gazing at an omniscient light, is overcharged in this hypnotic vortex. A fundamental difference, for example, from the Internet is that we can only listen to this one-way vortex but there is no way that conversely through it we can respond. Thus I aim to emphasise it here with respect to the position of the ordinary viewer as something that is an already uncontrollable natural phenomenon, full of colours, rhythms and authentic sounds.

Exhibitions:

Solo show:

2009
Sediment II, „Sediment Sphere, Cultures, Reactor, Trip, Generator p-730“, Arthobler gallery, Porto, Portugal
Sediment II, „Sediment Sphere, Cultures, Reactor, Trip, Generator p-730“, Arthobler gallery, Lisbon, Portugal

2008
Reactor, „Reactor“, Vernon Project, Prague, CZ

Group exhibitions:

2009
Zlínský salon mladých, „Reactor”, Zlín, CZ
Waldburger gallery, „Reactor”, Brussel, Belgium

2008
Tina-B, ”Reactor”, International festival, alternative space in Prague, CZ

Art Fairs:

2010
Art Basel Art fair, „Sediment Sphere, Reactor, Ayahuasca”, Basel, Switzerland
Arco Art fair, „Sediment Sphere, Reactor, Labo relief ”, Madrid, Spain

2009
Pulse Art fair, „Active Sediment, Reactor”, New York, United States of America

Sculpture with two different perspectives on the representation of time.

Exhibitions:

Group exhibitions:

2010
Across today nebo-li napříč dneškem, „Time Crust”, Veletržní palác, NG, Prague, CZ

Art fairs:

2008
Arte Fiera, ”Brainstorming, Time crust”, Bologna, Italy