An introductory lecture of the new visiting pedagogue Florian Pumhösl. Florian Pumhösl has been creating new reference systems based on avant-garde graphic design, painting and architectonic references. In his 16mm films and animations he uses techniques and motifs of early experimental films. At the exhibitions he often confronts his film works with minimal geometrical paintings on glass and historic hints. He focuses on the strategies of appropriation, quotations and montages, he examines European, Russian and Japanese art and architecture of avant-garde as an aesthetical equivalent of an industrial production and mechanization. He is a great admirer and an expert on Czech avant-garde and Ladislav Sutnar’s work.
Florian Pumhösl exhibited solo for example at a large retrospective exhibition in the Viennese MUMOK, in MUDAM in Luxembourg, Kunstverein Cologne, Salzburg, Graz and Geneva, Secession in Vienna etc. He showed his works also at colllective exhibitions in Raves Row London, MUMO Warsaw, Generali Foundation, Witte de With Rotterdam, MOMA Chicago, MACBA Miami and Barcelona, Venice Biennale etc. He worked as a visiting teacher in Copenhagen. Florian Pumhösl cooperates with a prestigious Lisson gallery in London, Daniel Bucholz Gallery in Cologne, Krobath in Vienna/Berlin and others.
He is one of the most outstanding contemporary artists and his pedagogical activity in Prague is an exceptional occassion.
