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  Landscape | 2016

Landscape painting (lenght: 28minutes, cut: Ján Šebík) by Martin Kochan is a multi-coded play. Title of the work is based on the historical genre of painting reinterpreted and updated by author. Traditional genre is here interpreted literally as naive and „raw“. Kochan enters the countryside, paints the surface of the trees with lime and therefore multiplies the colorful fracture of birches. Applying lime on the surface of trees is commonly used in horticulture as a protective layer. In this sense, Kochan becomes a kind of healer, who takes care of the forest. He repeats the duct natural color of bark, respecting nature and the countryside. That is a non-violent intervention and revelation of a strange lyrical expression. It is a melancholical and romantic gesture, presented in the senselessness of conducting an action. Another level of understanding the work is opened at the moment, when Kochan operates with terminology of art history and thus enters the sphere of institutional practice. The record as a relation to the „painting“ can be seen as a secondary output documenting intervention in the countryside. With this work, Kochan enters the land of the institutional debate on the specifics of media paintings, which ultimately allows us to state intervention itself called painting.