Curatorial Text / Kostka Gallery / NIKOLA ČULÍK (CZ): TURNKEY EXHIBITION
GALLERY KOSTKA
presents the exhibition
NIKOLA
ČULÍK (CZ): TURNKEY EXHIBITION
curator: Lenka
Sýkorová
5. 2. - 21. 2. 2014
The only one who will do it for free is the artist. Nikola Čulík, the
promising stallion, will present a drawing system which is based on a
non-traditional framework of thinking about this medium. Inside the Kostka
gallery space the work will be created together with another artist or
non-artist, who will be controlled by Čulík.
Nikola Čulík is a well-known artist throughout
the Czech visual art scene. Čulík graduated three years ago from the drawing
studio of Jitka Svobodová at AVU and has continued to express himself predominantly through
drawing. More recently, however, Čulík has been working with his drawings in
the context of 3-dimensional spaces. For Kostka the curator approached him with
these overlaps in mind. One wonders how a very intimate medium such as drawing
could truly dominate a non-traditional gallery space. The inspiration for this
exhibition project sparked from an exhibition Čulík participated in at the
mobile gallery Jádro,
which took place last spring in Barrandov.
The author presented his drawings breaking the
traditional framework in an exhibition called Life and Work in the beginning of 2013 at Staroměstské radnice (Old
Town Hall). There, his work had moved into an intermediate plane. Since then,
however, Čulík has reached an even further shift by becoming free of
unnecessary means of expression. New perspectives of points, lines, and their
connections in the form of arrows is an ideal demonstration of the deepest
human emotions. This idea was elaborated in the aforementioned exhibition at
gallery Jádro. For
this exhibition at gallery Kostka, he has returned to this implementation
principle of his drawings inside a space. Kostka references the Jádro space,
however using a much larger area.
Turkney
Exhibition is a site-specific project that creates a new experience with
drawings into which one can enter. We present a series of interventions by the
curator Lenka Sýkorová, who
implements the complicated proces of design into the show. The artist will also
act as a curator, choosing another artisto or non-artist to realize and create
the exhibition. This game poses questions about the roles and influences of the
artist, curator and creator of the exhibition
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Nikola Čulík (*1983) lives and works
in Prague. Drawing isČulík’s
main medium of expression, and linking his life to his work is the hallmark of
his art. The artist
graduated from the drawing studio of Jitka Svobodová at the Academy of
Fine Arts in Prague, where he studied during 2005-2011. His drawings stand out
for their original concepts, which combine autobiographical remarks while
simultaneously commenting on the Prague art scene. His exhibitions especially
display these experiments of authenticity and spontaneous speech. Čulík’s
creations transcend the borders of post-conceptual drawings to the plane of
current visual trends. Some of his recent exhibitions include Intimate Fire (2009) in Prague at the
House of the Golden Ring, Člověčina
(2011) at 35m2 gallery, and Black Soul
(2012) at Altana Klamovka.
Open daily 1- 8pm
Voluntary Admission
Guided tours for the public and special interest groups and school
workshops are possible for this exhibition.
Contacts and more inforation:
Christina Gigliotti - PR & Marketing
christina@meetfactory.cz
+ 420 776 798 202
Karina Pfeiffer Kottová – Curator of Gallery MeetFactory
karina@meetfactory.cz
+ 420 732 464 434
For
the year 2014, MeetFactory is supported by a grant of 6.500.000 CZK by the City
of Prague.