Curator: Vladimír Beskid

Opening: 28.11.2023

The solo exhibition of Marek KVETAN (1976), a leading representative of Slovak intermedia art, entitled Red Horizon, brings together three major works from his current oeuvre.

In the multi-layered work of Marek Kvetan we observe a rich register of hybrid objects and a programmatic focus on borderline 3D realisations, absurd situations and objects. Kvetan usually concentrates on a fragment, a detail, on a „fractured“ situation that metaphorically speaks of the whole. Even a slight transformation of inputs or materials brings about a change of meanings and cultural con-texts.

A key role in this triple combination is played by Cornerstone 2020, a powerful sculptural installation of six „cornerstones“ in the middle of the gallery, which is presented in the Bratislava environment for the first time. These are 6 selected black stones on a larger scale – a meteorite, a lithic coal, a pitchblende (uranite), a huge quartz crystal, a rolling stone or an ordinary „rock“ from a field. Each of them is placed vertically on a specially chosen chair or pedestal (a miner’s chair from the 17th century, a school or peasant’s chair, chairs from the Jáchymov camp, from the mining office in Handlová, etc.). Kvetan thus metaphorically brought six black stones, 6 „glowing embers“, which refer to the geology of our planet, to political-geographical power games, to the prosperity of former mining towns and to contemporary climate change, etc. 

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Curator: Kristína Zaťko Jarošová and Patrik Steinhauser

Opening: 01.10.2023

ZOYA Museum, Partizánska 2275
900 01 Modra, Slovakia (GPS: s48.35990 v17.33229)