MITRÍKOVÁ & DEMJANOVIČ – MYTHOLOGY OF THE ATOMIC AGE / TATRA FUTURISM

The exhibition project deals with the topic of mythologies (religious, political, historical), in the context of a specific moment of the peak of the use of atomic energy, as a symbol of human progress and control of nature and energy in the 20th century. The artists focus on our domestic cultural and geopolitical region with the Tatra Mountains as its center. Formally inspired by museum exhibitions in the former aristocracy residences in castles and manors, as well as modernist morphology, Jarmila Mitríková & Dávid Demjanovič continue to update the medium of modeled ceramic sculpture. In the second half of the 20th century, it was used in our environment as a kind of living propaganda and a form of art available to the masses. The topics, which were mainly processed by state ceramic and porcelain factories, copied the assignments of the ministers of propaganda or enlightenment. Using a similar methodology, the authors insert utopian and suggestive optimism about the future into the plastic, but also harmless melancholy from the past, which never really happened.

Duration: 19.8.2020 – 04.9.2020

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