The Drawing Lab part II

 

I spent two intense weeks locked in the studio working on this drawing..

"What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more''
Inspired by this quote by Nietzsche (and Rust Cohle of the True Detective series), I wanted to depict a dichotomy where the infinite cycle of time can be seen as either absolutely terrifying, "the heaviest weight imaginable", or it can be seen as beautiful.

The Drawing Lab

I am in Northampton for a two-week residency working on this large scale drawing at the Drawing Lab of the School of the Arts at the University of Northampton..

http://www.northampton.ac.uk/news/university-of-northampton-s-school-of-the-arts-welcomes-artist-svetlana-fialova-to-campus

L ND N @ Zahorian&Co gallery Bratislava

Nine artists with the common – actual or recent place of the residency – the city of London.

   Artists: Tereza Červeňová, Svetlana Fialová, Marián Grolmus, Katarína Hrušková, Jaroslav Kyša,

   Hynek Martinec, Bruno Osif, Lucia Sceranková, Ekaterina Skurikhina

   Curator: Silvia Van Espen

   Vernissage: 19 June 2014 at 6 PM

    The exhibition runs until 1 August 2014

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voyage voyage creative process open relocate addiction discover yourself limits rearview mirror distance

community visit coincidence life as a collage “double strategy“ experiences contradictory “the artist

competitive unequal world of art“ moment of truth “collaboration today“

some pictures here in Wall Street International
http://wsimag.com/art/10076-l-nd-n 

watch the video invitation below

Brilliant at diagnosis @ GPLspace4 Vienna

Diversity Required at the Slovak National Gallery

 

Diversity Required

April 15 – June 1, 2014
Esterházy Palace, 2nd floor

 I'm showing one drawing in a group show called Diversity Required at the Slovak National Gallery on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the founding of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. The exhibition is based on the confrontation of the historical view of the first academy of arts in Slovakia with a critical curatorial perspective of its contemporary form as a creative laboratory. 

From the official statement: The relationships between pedagogues and students, their mutual links, influences, confrontations and multilayered contexts, which are vitally manifested in the work of both sides, represent the focus of this exhibition. Through the curatorial selection from the history of individual academy departments we will demonstrate examples of the forming and developing of these relationships from the master and apprentice relationship up to partnership dialogue while using legendary examples of pedagogues and students.

http://www.sng.sk/sk/uvod/vystavy/pripravovane/rozmanitost-nutna-vsvu-model-2014

http://www.vsvu.sk/o-nas/aktuality/pozvanky/rozmanitost-nutna/

 

Slovak Now!

Two of my latest drawings will be shown at DSC gallery in Prague.

more information here http://www.dvoraksec.com/ and below
 
Gallery dvorak sec contemporary will present art work of several talented artists as part of a group show after some time. The upcoming group show Slovak Now! will showcase the latest work created in the studios of the most interesting contemporary Slovak artists.
Artists: Ašot Haas, Marek Kvetán, Martin Gerboc, Svetlana Fialová, Viktor Frešo, Michal Černušák, Boris Sirka, Martin Sedlák and Katarína Janečková. Parallel with the exhibition, in the lower level of the gallery will showcase the works of the most interesting of "art incubator" - from Slovak graduates and young artists.

The opening will be held on Wednesday, 19.3.2014 from 18:30 at gallery dvorak sec contemporary.

//drawn in London May 2013-Feb 2014//