Jiří Černický, "VAZBY / BINDS", 2005-2006
Opening: Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 6pm
>> Photos of the Opening & Installation Views
Meeting with the artist: Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 4pm
Jiří Černický,
"VAZBY / BINDS", 2005-2006
Opening: Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 6pm
>> Photos of the Opening &
Installation Views
Meeting with the artist: Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 4pm
If we look at the oeuvre by Jiří Černický from the mid-1990s to the present, we can clearly see a line of artifacts, which draw the viewer’s attention by an almost iconic power. Such works include the object "Heroin Crystal" (1996) reflecting the uncontrolled emergence of phenomena of social pathology in the Czech post-totalitarian environment, the Gesamtkunstwerk "The First Mass Produced Schizophrenia" (1998) – an allegory of deep economic and cultural contradictions of the global society, as well as "Bin Ladin Lamp" (1999-2000), a number of psychedelic paintings anticipating the escalation of Islamic terrorism. This also applies to the installation "SONY Garden" (2002), a paradoxical haiku reflecting a conflict of traditional values with the rapid technological development, and the video "The Invisible" (2005) documenting a painful crisis of integration models in the Western world.
The urgency of all these projects consists of the unique mix of social perceptiveness,
symbolic visual appropriation and a rhizomatic narrative structure. Černický
models the structure of his artifacts somewhat unwittingly, calmly outlining
the theme and weaving a web of connections around it. This gives rise to multilayered
probes combining semi-documentary principles with designer forms. Cernický
in fact produces items, graphic signs or visual messages which simulate a practical
function in order to enhance the feeling of uncertainty in the process of their
designation. Vigilance vis-à-vis these ambivalent items raises not only
questions connected with the issues of perception and interpretation but in
a certain sense evokes a new discursive situation occurring at the verge of
reality and myth.
Duration of the exhibition: 6.3.2008 - 19.4.2008
Opening hours: MO - FR, 10:00 - 13:00, 14.00 - 20:00, SA, 10:00
- 14:00
Address: Emil Filla Gallery, Velká Hradební str.
19, 400 01 Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
Further information: www.gef.cz