Milan Mazúr: Disappearance of Lady

An opening of the exhibition on Tuesday, September 18, 2018, from 6 p. m.
The exhibition until October 13, 2018

Curator: Lenka Sýkorová

Accompanying program on Saturday, October 13, 2018, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. – animation workshop for children, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. – commented viewing of the exhibition and the exhibition activity of Klamovka Pavilion.

Milan Mazúr graduated from the Intermedia Studio at the Faculty of Art in Banská Bystrica (prof. Miroslav Nicz, a bachelor’s degree) and continued his master’s studies in the Intermedia Confrontation Studio (prof. Jiří David and doc. Milan Salák) at the Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design in Prague. The author represents the new generation of artists who, using the Internet, very skillfully exploit digital technologies to visually express their ideas. In his project for the Altán Klamovka Gallery, he created a visual network with messages. The network shows his attempts to grasp drawing with certain layers that stem from today’s lifestyle. The entire installation contains ready-made elements – i.e. common waste (used fireworks referring to the spectacle of Western society, a fragment of artificial lawn or “sticks” from the forest symbolizing a natural element). The installation also embodies ritual elements and, in the form of video, refers to modern information media such as mobile phones, tablets, notebooks, etc. This is why a functioning tablet became the centerpiece of the installation. The tablet represents a platform for a motion image – videoart – that does not tell a story but reassures the viewer in the atmosphere of a strange situation that the author set up through his artwork. Milan Mazúr’s artwork in the gallery points out the layers of the current culture of sharing both written and visual information, through which we convey our thoughts. The viewer can thus see certain elements referring to the web platform that is the source of inspiration not only for Milan Mazúr but also for many artists who, by surfing the Internet and appropriating ready-made images, form their own, often critical, view of society in the form of a visual expression balancing on the borderline of video, design or materialized matter of the virtual environment. In his exhibition, the artist is interested in the possibilities of video bending and mostly in examining the space in which the image is projected. His artwork for the gallery focuses on grasping drawing that is hidden in the final installation and at first glance embodies “invisible” yet imaginary lines between the individual layers of thoughts and data hidden in the installation.

Lenka Sýkorová