MICHAL CIMALA: TLAKOVÁ VLNA

The exhibition for the Villa Pellé premises is a project of a balance sheet, contradictory generational feeling. The installation assumes work with the intertwining of several conceptual planes. The so -called black series of paintings from 2022–2024 thematizing "slowly expiring skepticism even in the field of art" will be dominant. The themes of the works reflect the themes of shock, isolation, false emancipation, media manipulation, crowd culture and mass sport. Due to its generational affiliation, which is characterized by the immediate experience of the Velvet Revolution and the regime changes in 1989, it is one of the authors sensitively connected to their time and its transformation twists. In 1989–1993 he graduated from SUPŠ in Turnov (Zlatník/Stříbrník) and in 1994–2000 AAAD (Atelier Metal and Jewelry, Prof. Vratislav K. Novák). In 2006–2024 he worked as a professional assistant in the studio of the statue I (Jaroslav Róna, Lukáš Rittstein). He has had a number of internships and residential stays abroad (Milan, Berlin, San Francisco, etc.). He belongs to the founders and authors of the successful Gallery Trafo. Together with Petr Voříšek he works in the musical ensemble Roxorrm3n, which in November 2024 released a new album Vysočany.

Exhibition curator: Petr Vaňous
The exhibition will last: 𝟮𝟰. 𝟭. 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 - 𝟮. 𝟯. 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱