ARTIST PROFILE

Matěj Frank

  • Czech Republic (b. 1989 in Opava)
  • Currently in Wien, Austria.
  • Matěj Frank is a visual artist interested in slow transformations and transience. Frank's measure of time and space is often a human body.
present / absent

present / absent

  • 2018
  • Performance, Drawing
  • Charcoal, Elevated Floor
  • 4 hours

  • Repetition, layering, continuity. Patterns are created, broken up, reconfigured, and create forms. This live work, with its visual & sonic elements, invites to a meditative performance action, which leaves a remnant in form of an immersive drawing behind.

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  • 6 20d
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    present / absent & Spaces | 2013 - 2021

The series present/absent consists of performative actions and sculptures and builds on the Spaces series. In the performances, the focus from depicting the reach of a body shifts to taking up an entire space through movement and drawing. In the sculptures, the surrounding area becomes part of the composition.