Zatepľovanie
Výstava Zatepľovanie predstaví najnovšie práce Martina Kochana, ktoré vznikli počas jeho mesačnej rezidencie v centre PROGR vo Švajčiarsku. Rezidenciu zorganizovali Banská St a nica Contemporary v Banskej Štiavnici a združenie residency.ch z Bernu za podpory Ministerstva kultúry SR a Stadt Gallery Bern.
Ako táto séria, tak jeho spontánne práce využívajúce každodennú banalitu, však skrývajú aj hlbšie obsahy. A to napriek tomu, že autor sám radšej rozpráva o tej abstrakcii. Kochan svojimi prácami, či už zámerne alebo nie, upozorňuje na rôzne problémy svojho okolia. Ako napríklad v práci, kde svojim skokom do kopy mincí pred švajčiarskym parlamentom podporil protesty za zavedenie nepodmienečného základného príjmu. Kochan je chuligán, abstraktný umelec, ľavičiar a aktivista.
- Thermal Insulation00:00:00.000
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- It is the subject of working people in Slovakia, we can observe00:00:16.233
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- our housing estates changing from socialist form to modern "candy"00:00:24.767
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- capitalist form. Thermal insulation is a new visual people are seeing,00:00:32.740
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- it was interesting to me, so I responded to it.00:00:40.702
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- I think the exhibition represents the turning point in his work,00:00:48.889
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- it is much different from his previous work, we were discussing it -00:00:55.406
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- Martin starts to think more in abstraction, he is an abstract artist.00:01:02.929
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- I think this exhibition fully confirms it. Despite the tangible base it comes from,00:01:07.730
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- and the idea is clear, as there is also criticism of society to certain extend,00:01:18.706
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- unnecessary thermal insulation of houses, new colours of houses in Petržalka,00:01:24.922
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- probably you all know it there or here around, and despite all this,00:01:32.262
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- he is able to get a simple visual experience out of it.00:01:43.831
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- First I started to do grey painting, I didn´t use the canvas,00:01:47.020
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- but handkerchiefs representing the periphery and housing, allergy00:01:54.832
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- as people sniffle into it, it´s a symbol of periphery as well as graffiti and rap.00:01:59.897
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- First they drill through the polystyrene, then the drilled holes are fixed by mortar.00:02:07.956
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- Then the block of flats is dotted all over in an uneven way, so I tried00:02:22.059
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- to imitate it on each handkerchief intuitively, thinking of the colour it might get00:02:33.489
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- while I was on residence stay in Switzerland. I didn´t know the colour,00:02:40.269
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- so I decided to paint them white with oil paint which made an aura.00:02:48.711
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- In overall impression it looks as a block of flats to me.00:02:58.193
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- I had two weeks time before coming to Slovakia and also the handkerchiefs00:03:10.008
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- needed to dry out and during this period I was working with comics of 1950s,00:03:17.815
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- which I obtained from my friend, Swiss artist. I put the comics together with00:03:27.136
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- the visual of the magazines of contemporary art,00:03:37.101
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- so there is a free style collection of collage works and that is all.00:03:40.920