Reports

Ice Age

In his solo exhibition for the Kostka Gallery, Ivan Svoboda presents a video installation and a series of photographs depicting the quest of the wandering Homo sapiens sapiens for better life while overcoming various traps and adversities. The desired destination is a small village nearby Česká Lípa in the Czech Republic.

artistsIvan Svoboda
curatorsJaro Varga
placeKostka gallery
tags
castIvan Svoboda
cameraMilan Mazúr
soundMilan Mazúr
editingMilan Mazúr
interviewMilan Mazúr
translationKateřina Prokešová
categoryReports
published14. 11. 2016
languageČesky / English
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Ice Age
The concept of the exhibition is based on the ideological convergence of the work of Catherine Radosa and Jaroslav Varga, which consists in revealing the physical and symbolic traces of the past. Both artists examine these relics of bygone times and eras from the perspective of collective memory and the mechanisms of its storage. A vacant lot is an empty space, a gap left by a past situation that can be filled again. The installation Colonne / Révolution captures the constant cycle of the monument in a triple projection. The period of the revolutionary Paris Commune is still a problematic period in France, similar to the period of socialism in our country: it has been and continues to be reinterpreted, tabooed, or marginalized.