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Prague City Gallery: introducing young artists
Prague City Gallery has prepared yet another exhibition as part of the 'Start up' series, which is a great opportunity for younger generations of Czech visual artists.
On this occasion, the gallery introduces the young artist Ondřej Vicena. You can visit his latest installation until the 19th of May 2019 at Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace. The thirty-year-old visual artist and designer is undoubtedly one of the most prominent artists of his emerging generation. He devotes himself to arts and crafts, as well as to fine art. His installations seek out lost beauty within the archives of visual garbage of recent history – both virtual and real trash.
Ondřej Vicena
Vicena studied at both Prague Art Schools: the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design (UMPRUM) and the Academy of Fine Arts (AVU). He gained experience in a few studios that focused on working with new media. These included visiting foreign professors’ studios –the Austrian artist Markus Huemer and the English artist John Hill; Dominik Lang and Edith Jeřábková’s Sculpture Studio, and the Tomáš Svoboda School. The aesthetics of the present, post-internet period is the starting point in Vicena’s work.
‘4D Carriage’
The exhibited installation, ‘4D Carriage’ works with beauty as a power symbol, which becomes a representation of our status, and at the same time a desire for luxury. The exposition refers to the original use of space in the Palace. It points to the importance of the coach house, which would correspond to the significance of a garage in a luxury modern villa today. Here, the carriage is like a luxury car. But the social status of beauty is also reflected in the glass bowl, the central point of the installation. The shape of its lens represents the human eye, where imaginary images adhere to the reflections of objects. This in turn resembles images displayed on social networks, which are another tool for the distribution of our personal status and the social status of beauty. It is a very interesting and topical subject nowadays, in this time saturated with social networks.
Visit Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace
Today, the palace is managed by Prague City Gallery and has been open to the public since June 2013. It includes a stunning, almost unknown, baroque dance hall with a ceiling fresco by Pietro Scotti and Giovanni Battista Zeist.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Open until 19/05/2019
Venue: Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace, Karlova Street 189/2, Prague 1, ‘kočárovna’ (coach house)
Opening times:
Tuesday - Sunday from 10am to 6pm
Admission: CZK 1
For more information, please visit http://en.ghmp.cz/