March 2 to April 6, 2011
Museum of Modern Art | Café87
The basis for large-scale colorful collages became black and white photos Jindrich Streit. “The cycle of 13 paintings – fotopláten dimensions 100 x 70 cm created from original photos Jindrich Streit – Calendar 2000. He offered me their pictures to strain, causing the contents of the individual photographs got into a different context, in some cases to absurd situations, strange stories. Black and white photo gets fragments of color, highlighting some parts, or vice versa suppression or cut out. Thus manually created collages are minimal after adjustment for PC printed on canvas, “describes his work Iveta A. Dučáková with the fact that with this technique began already during his studies at the Academy. “At the present time, it deepens and seeking new opportunities. Deal with the identity transformation, deformation and atmosphere of the time in unusual connections, issues of distance, differences instability. The people in the paintings are a reflection of our times, are eerie, conceal various inner feelings – fear, anxiety, hope, loneliness, innocence … “