Slovak painter František Demeter is interested in the possibilities and limits of hanging paintings, of painting as such. At the exhibition in the SPZ gallery, he deconstructs his large-scale painting installation entitled "Canvas on an Easel" (2014) and responds directly to the gallery space. Is painting flat? Is painting static? Is painting canvas? How does painting function in space and what frames it? Provocative questions without clear answers lead Demeter to further steps in dealing with the problems of painting and the image. For Demeter, painting is a process of layering, adding, and removing material. Viewers become actors in his installation.
Gabriela Kisová
