MEN IN THE GARDEN
In a new exhibition entitled Men in the Garden Prague based painter Daniel Pitín transports us to a special world suggestive of backstage film sets or the wooden huts of a garden colony.
In the exhibition, the artists combines painting, collage, sections from a personal diary from the 1960s, video and architecture, completely transforming the gallery space thorough the use of wooden panels, boards and various materials and props.
„I was inspired in this exhibition by studio film set designs and constructions. I am also fascinated by how people manage to inexpensively construct garden huts or bungalows. They find some materials and then use them to put together a roof, or a table. These buildings are thrown together from various materials, which previously had another function and history. I work in much the same way; I find various images from films, or from my surroundings, which I then compose into the space of the painting. I imagine a world that is deconstructed and then rebuilt into a new composition and complex; a world where everything is in continual movement and mutual confrontation. The wooden huts, and the way in which they are slapped together from various panels and lumber, remind me of the principal of how our memory works. It is also determined by what has lodged itself there in the past – these memories then become rearranged and move towards the front of our consciousness, where they are confronted by our current perception. For me, Men in the Garden is a metaphor for our collective memory: they stand in a (un)protected place in the garden, always on the lookout for something or someone“.
- I would like to welcome Daniel here and00:00:23.332
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- at the beginning I would like to ask you some questions about his last project.00:00:27.609
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- For this exhibition I´ve prepared an installation containing paintings and videoprojections.00:00:40.883
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- It is inspired by props or sheds that are built in suburbs.00:00:49.712
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- I use this principle of finding planks, and making of them dwellings in my paintings.00:01:06.281
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- I work with this found material, either cinematic or my own one, I build my paintings in space, and00:01:18.671
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- I put together things that couldn´t meet normally because they are from different time period,00:01:31.100
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- one figure is a film character, another one from my own life.00:01:41.416
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- Pictures are accidental meetings of these things.00:01:46.772
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- My question is if this last cycle presented here under the title "Men in the Garden"00:01:53.466
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- I admit that the title is very poetic. It has just evoked me some atmosphere.00:02:03.528
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- And that is the reason why I´ve chosen it. It does not have any explicit meaning.00:02:13.819
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- If it refers to its theme he has dedicated so far, to some parallel with film, fiction and illusion.00:02:19.112
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- If this relates to it?00:02:34.122
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- That I was afraid of. That the educated man names everything in his question beforetime,00:02:38.931
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- in fact he answers his question, and from an artist he expects just an approval.00:02:45.580
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- I present here my diaries from 1967 where I projected myself into the past.00:02:54.593
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- I wrote my own stories in an automatic style on the basis of film frames that I printed out.00:03:02.615
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- When I put them together, they created a continuous story that viewers can read here.00:03:15.745
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- Here I took a passage from a film, I hid faces of actors, and in the streak above,00:03:25.678
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- I started to write my story related to my diaries, which also copies partially the plot of the movie.00:03:42.236
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- So it is a manipulation with the movie, the past,00:03:53.112
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- and with the plot that I borrow and use for my own expression.00:03:58.768