Dispositions

Dispositions | 17. 7. – 18. 8. 2021 | Ondřej Filípek and Stella Geppert /D/

Curator: Iva Mladičová

Opening: 17. 7. 2021 at 17:00

The exhibition collaboration between ONDŘEJ FILÍPEK and STELLA GEPPERT / D / is an opportunity to dialogue, intergenerationally between two significant artistic ensembles, whose common denominator lies in the inventive transformation of the psychology and corporeality of the human figure and the definition and reflection of human space. Both authors work with figural corporeality, Filípek in a direct sculptural way and Geppert transforms corporeality through the recording of movement action.

The dynamics of psychic expressiveness within the artworks of Ondřej Filípek is present in the apparent closedness of the shape, explicitly in the deformations and delimitation of the environment by means of objects. Geppert also works with the environment, with the real dynamics of living corporeality, from which drawing records of an expressive character are created and remain. There are two ways to transform psychic dynamics. The reciprocity of both approaches will allow distance from the common perception of the sculptural installation precisely by confrontation with the absence of corporeality in conceptual drawings and performances.

Ondřej Filípek creates a suggestive community of objects of an industrial nature and deformed figural torsos, treating the imaginative space of anxiety about the pathological nature of the environment. In the figures, the liveliness of the organic shape allows it to blend with the technically cold shape. Torsion figures are both static and unstable. The expression is humanly disturbing and at the same time detached. The whole is alive and inanimate. The figure transforms into an object, the object acquires an anthropomorphic character. The author points out the need to revive the human dimension of the current way of existence, to the borderline moment of the situation.