Salvavit
Názov výstavy je latinským ekvivalentom slova SPASENÉ. Hlavnou témou prítomnou vo všetkých dielach je vzťah jednotlivca k spoločnosti, jednotlivosti v mnohosti.
Momenty vyčlenenia, ako aj zrovnoprávnenia. Radením jednej tváre k druhej sa zo zdanlivo jednoliateho davu stávajú jednotlivci, individuality.
- When I paint a portrait I strive to also make it in some sense universal.00:00:45.828
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- When you paint a portrait of someone, a connection is automatically created.00:00:54.477
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- So, in a way, any portrait is universal.00:01:00.015
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- It allows me a wider interpretative context.00:01:03.660
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- I use it to comment on socio-cultural events,00:01:09.574
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- situations, or personal and inter-human relationships.00:01:16.883
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- Sometimes I draw on the idea of the "black sheep",00:01:24.662
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- which isn't a clearly positive or negative figure.00:01:28.092
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- This idea came to me during walks in country side.00:01:33.018
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- I once came across a huge herd of sheep which stopped and surrounded me.00:01:42.791
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- My paintings are about stopping and meditating on a situation.00:01:47.907
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- They also can ponder whether to continue with the herd.00:01:53.230
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- But this already verges on poetry.00:02:03.199
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- For a while now I've been using airbrush technique.00:02:08.496
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- Originally, airbrushing was used to retouch photographs00:02:14.471
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- and that's how I use it.00:02:19.592
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- I want the paintings to feel like photographs.00:02:22.192
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- This impression is stronger in smaller formats.00:02:27.221
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- The base layer is also adapted to the photographic feel.00:02:31.257
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- The surface is smooth00:02:36.220
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- and you can't tell immediately that it's canvas.00:02:40.003