All Alone
In his work, Cabalka is post-modernally eclectic, he combines pop-cultural motives with collage references to classic works of art.
The paintings use relatively settled list of his characteristic motives and quotations. The exhibition includes a set of his recent works, which are presented in a carefully composed installation.
Petr Cabalka (graduated in 2009 at a painting studio of FaVU) works together with a group Anymade (together with Filip Nerad and Jan Šrámek) dealing with an artistic, curator and graphic work. The name of the exhibition – All Alone – paraphrases „the event“ of the artist’s first solo exhibition and at the same time also the romantically introspective character of his paintings and drawings.
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- Kabinet Gallery / BKC00:00:05.169
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- Petr Cabalka ON MY OWN00:00:30.294
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- This is my first solo exhibition.00:00:40.274
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- I did all the previous ones together with the guys,00:00:49.199
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- namely Filip Nerad and Jan Šrámek, at Animade.00:00:56.494
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- I felt a need to change this,00:01:03.948
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- to show my works all on my own.00:01:08.898
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- This exhibition is the result.00:01:14.577
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- It presents only drawings.00:01:18.666
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- I decided to make a compact exhibition00:01:23.013
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- because the gallery space is quite small00:01:28.640
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- and quite complicated.00:01:32.489
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- So that's why it all looks like what it does.00:01:36.275
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- All the exhibits are pencil drawings on paper.00:01:41.153
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- I've been doing this type of work for 3 years00:01:48.017
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- and this is the final result of my efforts.00:01:53.857
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- The works contain several repetitive symbols00:01:58.780
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- that form various structures.00:02:06.707
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- The drawings depict strange figures.00:02:12.712
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- These figures resemble diary entries00:02:18.541
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- because I always create only one at a time,00:02:23.036
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- although that's not my usual style of work.00:02:28.804
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- But in this case00:02:33.609
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- the works follow one after another,00:02:36.109
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- like pages in a diary.00:02:40.804
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- They all reflect a certain state of my mind.00:02:44.940
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- Camera Editing00:02:54.680