Consonance

Consonance, AMB gallery, join exhibition with Andrea Uváčiková and Zbyněk Janáček, Hradec králové, 2022

CONSONANCE (or reverberation) satisfactory harmony, it is created by harmonizing differences, shifts, deviations. The triple snare of various artistic personalities meets over the theme of the line in contact with space. The line is an abstraction, because the world is constantly changing and the line represents the seam, the joint, the scar, the repetitions form the rasters and the annual rings appear. In the Shapeshift series, multimedia graphic designer Andrea Uváčiková and sculptor Zuzana Bartošová examine 3D shapes and their 2D projections. How we understand them, how we think about shapes, how we remember what we touch in the mind and real senses. Zuzana Bartošová understands the lines of “growth” of a 3D printed object as a kind of annual rings. White transparent plastic is an artificial substance, natural to man, because we created it to our advantage. The object is created by layering linear fibers and acquires properties of the outside and inside, to which daylight and artificial light also have something to say. Leonardo da Vinci has already studied the relationship between matter and time. To this day, we are fascinated by the imprint of the past, natural growth, layering, we perceive the passing of time written and stored in matter. Andrea Uváčiková asks the question: We can recognize three-dimensional bodies in two dimensions, because we load the world mostly in two dimensions, in various records and digital media. Traditional graphic gravure printing techniques can offer (albeit slight) depth and plasticity, but the author embarks on a path of generalization. The intense black surface disturbs the illusion of space built by lines and light valleys in a disturbing way. Zbyněk Janáček intensifies the gentle rhythm of both shapeshifts by layering intense colored areas on top of each other. The metallic foil further enhances the idea of ​​reflection and window. Where should the window lead? From the inside out, or vice versa, into a completely different dimension? Objects taught by Abbot Suger’s early Gothic light mysticism, De Stijl’s Dutch initiation platform, and Hugo Demartini’s exploration of chance, levitation, and gravity are essays on constant motion. Flat objects can be considered in a sense as displays or series. Shapes and their relationships with surface and space are constantly changing, settling, concentrating, sharpening in them. Permanent movement is a characteristic of the world. The world is moving towards order, but at the same time it does not stay in it. He destroys harmony with his movement and seeks a new, different, not better, not worse, alive and natural. The interest in the work of all three creators is the interest in the relationship of two and three dimensions, in the question of displaying and reading back this sophisticated speech. How we understand the world and how we can talk and think about it through concepts, signs and images.