ESTHER STOCKER AND DAVID HANVALD
The young Austrian artist Esther Stocker (1974) has prepared a collection of pictures which correspond with her existing work, for the Gallery on the Bridge.The young artist David Hanvald who graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague last year, where he studied in the Painting Studio of Stanislav Diviš.
Esther Stocker
In her paintings made up only of black, white and grey colors,she uses complicated grid systems, which create optically impressive structures
David Hanvald
He will present at the exhibition a cycle of pictures created at the end of his studies. The exact and precise manner of their composition sometimes shifts the paintings to geometrical levels, at the same time, however, they still remain, to a certain extent, „traditional, depicting” pictures.
- The theme, "Construction and Systems of Order",00:03:03.503
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- is based on unrealized projects of Louis Kahn.00:03:07.121
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- The objects represent a reinterpretation,00:03:11.156
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- also connected with El Lissitzky00:03:16.273
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- or Sol LeWitt.00:03:19.210
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- The emphasis on form stems from architecture00:03:28.687
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- but the colors are strictly random.00:03:32.255
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- I have some tables from which I draw colors.00:03:35.803
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- So the idea is not to match harmonic colors00:03:40.481
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- but the principle of randomness.00:03:44.406
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- I started to adhere strictly to a system00:03:48.628
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- in my third year00:03:52.215
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- when I worked on a wall painting00:03:54.600
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- by Zdeněk Sýkora and I became familiar00:03:57.761
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- with his work and personality.00:04:01.063
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- This experience pushed me00:04:03.828
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- to a system, an order, some rules of work.00:04:06.621