Olomouc Museum Night is back and we are opening the gates of the GAME OWNER exhibition. From 5 pm to 10 pm, the exhibition is available to view for free.
The Game Owner exhibition presents a dialogue between the artistic approaches of Danish artist Søren Dahlgaard and Czech artist Jakub Janovský. The works of both artists, although different in method and artistic strategy, share a similar interest in the game and all its attributes. Both of them often work with references to childhood depicted in a bouncy castle or the remains of a housing estate playground. The faces of the actors of the games are often indistinct in their paintings or photographs. In Janovsky's case, these are archetypes of persons into which the author or viewer can project his or her own existence based on the pillars of collective memory and the reliving of memories, whereas in Dahlgaard's work they are concrete persons who are anonymised only during the process of creating the work. The collaborative exhibition is a playground built by children's imagination and playfulness.
The work of conceptual artist Søren Dahlgaard (*1973) is built on interactive projects with playful collaboration and creative engagement. He transforms participation, often realized in public space, into a game with set rules that meet the individual creativity of the participants. She applies this approach not only in the case of her performative happenings, but also in painting, where process and action are an integral part of the work itself. Photography plays a significant role in his work - he uses this medium in particular to document his projects, such as Inflatable Island or Dough Portraits. The exhibition at Telegraph Gallery presents two series of dough portraits created specifically for the occasion. The first series consists of portraits of visitors to the Telegraph and the Olomouc public, while the second documents art collectors from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, along with artefacts from their collections.
Jakub Janovský (*1984) explores personal and collective memory, and his works often bear the hallmarks of the past, particularly from the socialist period in which the artist grew up. His work features figures and symbols that function as archetypes, conveying to the audience their own experience and thus providing a space for reinterpretation of historical and contemporary themes. His work is characterised by its playfulness and use of different media, from painting and drawing to collage, sculpture, installation and video. This diversity allows Janovsky to experiment with different approaches, providing him with limitless possibilities for visually expressing themes such as memory, identity and collective history.
Curated by Erika Kovačičová, Mira Macík
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