ARTIST PROFILE
- Slovakia (b. 1981 in Trnava)
- Currently in Trnava, Slovakia.
- I concentrate on post conceptual tendencies in an intermedia production that mostly presents itself as intervention into public space, and I further take that creatively into another stage.
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“Patriot“, hubcap on the car, polyester, gold and blue color, 2010 | 2010
Patriot is the name of my practical diploma thesis related to the theoretical diploma thesis where I dealt with the status of art in public space in the city of Trnava after 1989. In my practical thesis I made one wheel cover for the right wheel of my parents´ car (silver Skoda Fabia). There was the historic emblem of the city of Trnava (cart wheel with a Byzantine ring and Christ´s head in the centre) on the wheel cover. I moved and displayed it in the city where I studied and presented it as a sculpture in a public space. The sculpture referred to the culture of the town I come from (Christian values, family and tradition after 1989). With this work I also tried to go beyond public art and figurative sculpture as I presented it as a whole during its migration. There are many paradoxes in my work. There is „The Good Soldier Schwejk´s” fiction of patriotism on one hand and on the other hand the mere functionality of the city emblem perishes with its movement thus getting a new, abstract, non-ideological resemblance, which I, myself, like more.