THE POWER OF THREE / Maupicová, Šimíček, Véla

CHATEAU KLENOVÁ
7 April – 9 June 2013

These three young artists are brought together by having studied at Prague's Academy of Fine Arts and their common tendency to abandon the certainties acquired during their art education. Under the pressure of personal experience, fields as diverse as classic painting (Vladimír Véla, born 1980), drawing (Michaela Maupicová, born 1982) and sculpture (Pavel Šimíček, born 1981) are transformed into tools for taking a different, newer direction. To simplify today's situation, beauty and ugliness as purely aesthetic categories are in conflict with ethical categories (truth, lies, etc.) because they are passed through postproduction workshops where they are designed according to momentary need and intent. New formulations corresponding to the depiction of truth (in the sense of depicting reality) must be sought in previously indefinable interspaces drifting about before observant brokers of human dreams.
These new formulations allow for a different approach to material, shape, color, natural laws, and time itself. It becomes necessary to uncover in particular the fissures of an encapsulated world that, inebriated, falls asleep in the warmth of a frightening media sleeping-bag, and to use these fissures to shed light on the mechanisms of the false consciousness that is being continually generated, reproduced and distributed all around us. This web can be pierced through well-aimed or highly concentrated actions that synthesize the actor's conscious with his unconscious. Such is the case of color, which is in search of contours and thus a “body” with which it can identify (Véla); such is the case of the manically divergent structures that teach the viewer to contemplate the act of transformation systematically, in organizational waves, and through the genetic formula hidden on the bottom of each ornament (Maupicová); and it is the case of an object that is transformed into a malleable material that combines various cultural codes and hardens into aesthetically and ethically open (or, on the other hand, extreme) situations (Šimíček). Put simply: gesture and concentration to the power of three. All this awaits you at the exhibition at Klenová.
Petr Vaňous, exhibition curator

Video Václav Vojta