2024-06-29 16:34:47
Rock bands are inclined to have songs that they need to play at each live performance. Slovak artist Viktor Freš, however, is predicted to characteristic a sculpture known as Picus or Nýmand on the exhibition of his works. A number of variations of the work, which he has already created many occasions in numerous kinds and sizes, are additionally included within the new retrospective of Freš’s works ready by the Gallery of Fantastic Arts in Ostrava.
The present will be seen on the Ostrava Home of Arts till August 18. It’s being held on the event of the fiftieth birthday of the creator, whom a gallery spokesperson describes as one of the exceptional up to date artists. “He normally works in intensive cycles, recognized for instance are his initiatives Who’s The King? from 2008, when he had himself photographed by media celebrities, or I Was Right here from 2019, throughout which he sprayed the wall of the celebrated Ludwig Museum in Budapest,” he reminds.
Viktor Frešo relates his most well-known sculpture of a small man with an enormous head known as Picus, which with lightness and wit depicts somebody from the standpoint of a pinched, offended individual. “Pičus is my self-portrait, and at all times has been. I similar to individuals with large, spherical heads. I did not make him to observe deep ranges of that means. He is like me on some degree: he is acquired an ego, he is boastful.” described to Hospodářské novinám years in the past.
Nonetheless, the Ostrava exhibition known as Future Reminiscences turns to the roots and pays tribute to the artist’s household. It presents objects, work or her manipulated images from the final three a long time. Some works will be seen in Ostrava for the primary time, others the creator has already introduced with variations in Slovakia or the USA.
Within the Artwork Home, he additionally reveals the artifacts of his kin – father, mom, each grandmothers and grandfathers, with whom Frešo continues to work and revives them together with his artistic interventions. He delivered to Ostrava, for instance, the mated purse of his grandmother, who was a well known Slovak opera singer, his grandmother’s assortment of lighters from the second department, or maybe objects manufactured from wooden for guitars, the manufacturing of which Freš’s father made a residing throughout socialism. Considered one of this stuff known as the Pinch of Reminiscences and is situated on the staircase of the Home of Arts.
“I’ve at all times added a chunk of myself to the artifacts of my kin. I additionally needed to exhibit household photographs, however I haven’t got a lot of them or I am not in them. So I as soon as employed doubles of my grandmothers and grandfathers to take footage with them. However the exhibition can be a bit retrospective,” Frešo stated.
Curator Vladimír Beskid on the Ostrava exhibition of works by Viktor Freš. | Photograph: CTK
Born in Bratislava, he studied on the Academy of Fantastic Arts in Prague, acquired his diploma in 2003, and later ran a industrial artwork gallery for a number of years. “It was very profitable, maybe one of the profitable in Czechoslovakia,” he commented on the account.
Frešo was one of many 4 authors of the well-known Entropy by the artist David Černý, i.e. a satirical sculpture created in 2009 on the event of the Czech presidency of the Council of the European Union. In keeping with the organizers, it’s typical for him to create subtle ideas and initiatives. He’s usually vital of the artwork scene and playfully expresses his dissatisfaction with it.
“One of the vital attention-grabbing components of his work is the obvious distinction of an enormous, grandiose ego and a disarming self-ironic humility. Recent’s capability to disclose the darkish facet of his soul and his errors and the flexibility to launch them into the world whatever the penalties strikes the creator’s ideas to wider potentialities of perceiving his artwork.” acknowledged exhibition curator Vladimír Beskid.