ANYTHING GOES
(jan 23- March 8 2019)
curated by Michal Stolárik
read more about the show here
The international curatorial project Anything Goes is a probe into the art work of the young generation of active female artists from Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Austria. The art work of Svetlana Fialová, Pavla Malinová, Nana Mandl and Titania Seidl reflect the latest trends in contemporary 2D pictures, with possible extensions into spatial art work. These artists work with traditional media (painting, drawing, collage, embroidery) and adapt them to the needs of the contemporary (world of) art. Whether working with intentional visual deformation or combining different and often uncombinable media, their works take the best from tradition while simultaneously underlining inexhaustible original techniques amidst current events.
SVETLANA FIALOVÁ (1985) SK
The latest trends in Svetlana´s work are captured by her series Prostřeno (Come Dine With Me). In 54 drawings on various coloured A4 papers, she continues to demonstrate her interest in the realm of pop-trash culture and its bizarre connections. She pays equal attention to substantively challenging and visually complicated large-scale drawings and works of “sketchbook” size that do not offer room for developing her typical visual and ideologically multi-faceted compositions. She uses this limited space for making psychological portraits of real participants in a gastronomy show that illustrates the status quo of contemporary society more than any culinary skills. She combines her critical perspective with bizarre humor and irony, demonstrating it through symbolic motifs like the mirror, her masked face or putting on a glove. She turns from general topics back to personal mythology, to stories from her own life or intimate notes in her diary, as when incorporating newly-discovered family members into a series of anonymous portraits, or reflecting personal topics and interests in the large-scale drawing Krava (The Cow).
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