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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Illuminating Trnava |
Illuminating Trnava To commemorate the events of November 89 in Trnava in 2011 I decided to light the welcome sign by Milan Dobeš located at the entrance to the city of Trnava. The light welcome sign by Milan Dobeš dates back to the late eighties and at the beginning of a new regime it stopped lighting and started to decay. It consists of the sign Trnava built on steel bars. Using a ladder I installed one torch under each letter of the sign to make the sign TRNAVA to shine again after many years. My intervention in someone else´s work, which was, just as most of the high-quality works in public spaces of Trnava, forgotten and neglected, metaphorically “illuminated” the grassroots attempts to change and draw attention to cultural policy of the city of Trnava. The event had a positive response in the local media and one year after the publication the work came to life again thanks to the local MP Štefan Dvorský. Inspired by my intervention and following multiple complaints he arranged that this work is functional and it lights again. Milan Dobeš (1929) is an internationally recognized author of kinetic and light-kinetic objects, he is a representative of geometric abstraction in Slovakia and Czech Republic.