Publication details
Martin Skalický, V podzemí
| Title in English | Martin Skalický, Underground |
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Exposition |
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| Description | In the last few years, Martin Skalický's (*1976) work has been determined primarily by material experiments with textiles, which have taken the shapes of historical sculptural forms and introduced new morphological and semantic aspects. In the Pitevna Gallery, however, the sculptor presents works made of glass and paper, materials that appear in his work for the first time. The exhibition addresses the negative socio-political aspects of our present. Deformed portraits of homeless people made of glass, a noble and highly aesthetic material, find themselves in a bizarre neighbourhood of sculptures made of newsprint and adhesive tape. The subversive nature of Skalicki's work here connects in a new way with themes that the artist has long worked with, such as questions of fragility, lability, recycling, but also beauty and ugliness or kitsch. |