Pavel Matoušek
Born in 1989, works and lives in Ústí nad Labem and Prague, Czech republic
Student of FAD UJEP – Department of Photography, prof. Pavel Baňka, Ústí nad Labem
Co-founder of In Vitro Gallery, Ústí nad Labem
Pavel is mostly focused on the story behind story. This said, he captures everyday motives from environment around him, letting it to unfold it´s tale. He tends to lyrical attitudes and at the same time abolishing clichés of visual language. However, his language is not a chaos, yet well build collage of symbols. Symbolism is the important part for this artist. He uses photography freely, often mixed with installation works. Similarly, his story lines are not strict, rather well suited for a viewer to immerse into.
Selected shows
„Na hranici – Grenznah“, Školská 28, Prague
15th Symposium Strömungen: „Kraut und Rüben“, Dresden
„NAD ČAROU – Jednosměrná zpátky“, DOX Gallery, Prague
Medium Loci
The title of this exhibition project – “Medium Loci” is a combination of words medium and genius loci. We use it this way to point out the fact that place or region itself, through it’s genuine qualities can represent visual medium.
We have decided to deny the general concept of transporting the same artworks around several art venues and showing them over and over. Instead, we prepare the entire show specifically for the selected location. We visit it in advance so we can react in our personal way. Exhibition usually consists of photographs, video installations and figurative reactions to the gallery space.
In each city, artists dig in local history,current political and cultural situation. This way, they often provide local people with new point of view, both socially and aesthetically.
Artists: Marie Fišerová, Alžběta Kočvarová, Jana Koroleva, Tomáš Lumpe, Pavel Matoušek, Jáchym Myslivec a Daniela Šrámková
Curators: Silvie Milková, Jana Stejskalová
7. 5. 2015 Oranžerie Václava Havla, Ostrov nad Ohří
9. 2. 2015 Společenský dům, Neratovice
28. 1. 2015 NoD Mini, Praha
5. 11. 2014 Galerie NF, Ústí nad Labem
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Contact: jana.stejskalova01@gmail.com