2013 is the year when visual art records the 100th anniversary of the first assisted readymade object, created and exhibited as an artwork by the foremost representative of Dadaism, Marcel Duchamp (Bicycle Wheel, 1913).
The independent exhibition by the postconceptual artist Stano Masár (*1971) in Bratislava’s Dom umenia not only recalls that momentous and historically path-breaking event, which changed the paradigm of art, but also (in)directly reflects upon it at a century’s remove. The exhibition summarises and presents Masár’s visual work over the past 3 years, highlighting the most recent works, unveiled here for the first time, particularly in the fields of object, installation and intermedia.
Masár is one of the younger-middle generation of Slovak post- and neoconceptual visual artists whose work is focused on thinking about the immanent sphere of art, hence proceeding from reflection on art history and the specifics of the exhibition space or running.
