MICHALEK / ŠEIN

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MICHALEK / ŠEIN

Dates
27. 11. 2013 – 12. 1. 2014
Place
PLATO Ostrava
Type
Special
Starting from very different premises, the two artists jointly presented at the exhibition organized by the newly established Ostrava City Gallery – David Michalek and Miloš Šejn – both found new ways of capturing the dynamism and beauty of the human form in visually stunning images.

Curated by Ladislav Kesner

INSIDE MOVEMENT
Ever since the beginnings of representational art, deep in prehistoric times, the human body – and a moving human body in particular – has been one of the central subjects of arts of different cultures, and an inexhaustible source of inspiration for generations of artists. Starting from very different premises, the two artists jointly presented at the exhibition organized by the newly established Ostrava City Gallery – David Michalek and Miloš Šejn – both found new ways of capturing the dynamism and beauty of the human form in visually stunning images.
From Ladislav Kesner's catalogue text.

figure studies by david michalek
artalk: figure studies
artalk: příběh

Milos Šein: The Red Body, 6.8.2005

publications

Michalek / Šein by Ladislav Kesner, The Ostrava City Gallery 2013

• 01/ In front: David Michalek, from the series Figure Studies, since 2007, HD video, 300 x 180 cm / in background: Miloš Šejn, from the series Bodies of the Night, 2001 and 2003, videostill, c-print under acrylic glass, 70 x 100 cm
• 02/ From left: David Michalek, from the series Figure Studies, since 2007, HD video, 300 x 180 cm, Miloš Šejn, from the series The Red Body, 2005, 150 x 200 cm, c-print on aluminum, from a series of drawings Becoming Tree Falling, 2011, mixed media, textual drawing, paper, 100 x 70 cm, very right: drawing in situ 27th November 2013, mixed media wall installation, 400 x 800 x 400 cm
• 03/ Miloš Šejn, from the series The Green Man, 2003 and 2004, c-print on paper, 70 x 100 cm, collection of Gallery of West Bohemia in Pilsen, in background from the series The Red body, 2005, 150 x 200 cm, c-print on aluminum, in front: part of the installation drawings in situ 27th November 2013
• 04/ Miloš Šejn, from the right: Becoming Three Bodies, 2011, mixed media on canvas, textual drawing, 190 x 500 cm, in the middle: Becoming Tree Falling, 2011, mixed media on canvas, textual drawing, 190 x 285 cm, middle right: from the series The Red Body, 2005 150 x 200 cm, c-print on aluminum, , in background: from the series Bodies of the Night, 2001 and 2003 videostill, c-print under acrylic glass, 70 x 100 cm
• 05–06/ Miloš Šejn, sequence of the performance in situ on the 27th November 2013, mixed media wall installation, 400 x 800 x 400 cm
photo: Milos Sein Archives