ARTIST PROFILE

Bretislav Maly

  • Czech Republic (b. 1985 in Hradec kralove)
  • Currently in Brno, Czech Republic.
  • Education : 2011 Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava MgA. Klaudie Kosziby (traineeship) 2007 Academy in Poznan prof. zw. Wlodzimierz Dudkowiaka (traineeship) 2006 - 2012 Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno, Fisherman 125/13/15, by doc. Vesely and doc. Lahoda
Mere space of green color

Mere space of green color

  • 2016
  • Oil on Canvas
  • 200 x 500 cm

  • I have always been fascinated by the border between image and object. For me is a balance between color, light and shadow.
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    Mere space of green color | 2016

This object was created at a symposium in Mikulov, in which I took part. It was my response to an intergenerational debate about what is sculpture and what is painting. It seemed important to comment on this absurd discussion, and I wanted to create a piece of art capturing the essence of both genres. This hanging object is a classical painting responding by its form to the play of light and shadow like a sculpture, while not being one or the other: it is a soft object levitating optically. It is an object about the dialogue between painting and sculpture. I installed it in a cloister connecting the studios of the symposium, which has the potential of being a point of both meeting or conflict.