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Roman Košťál - BAD LUCK - Vernisáž
Roman Košťál - Bad Luck - opening
Event by: Hidden gallery, Kamil Princ
Location: Bořivojova 536/106, Bořivojova 106, Praha 3
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🎲 Roman Košťál - Bad Luck
🗓 Vernissage: Monday, April 21, 2025 at 18:00
📍 Hidden Bořivojova, Bořivojova 106, Prague 3 The chapter in the Hidden Bořivojov program - this time focused on the distinctive voices of contemporary Czech paintings. Smaller formats, raw scenes, Baroque symbolism in which concern hangs in the air like smoke. Košťál leads us to a world where happiness does not exist and bad luck has its own language - painting, ironic and subversive beautiful.
curator text was written by Kamil Prince. SAT: 15: 00–18: 00
🔮 Come and throw a cube. Alea Iacta est. canvas of their paintings. The exhibition "Bad Luck" is composed mainly of smaller formats as one big mosaic of evil, where each painting represents one clock in his magnificent symphony of tragic and melancholy.
The ubiquitous danger of combined with a high intellectual level of the chosen artistic "language". Gothic folklore on the edge between Midsommar and Lynch's psychothrillers majority shows the characters of women in sadistic and masochistic roles, when a woman is a parable of the raped Dorothy Valllens and in the blood bathing. Followed by a burning girl and a pair of amputated girls' legs. All these terrible revelations inspired by the Jungian archetype "Anima" represent the metaphorical embodiment of the dark aspects of the human psyche, and, like Braun's allegory, "vices" in the Baroque bitch materialize everything bad in us. At the same time, they are also the means of the painter's introspection and knowledge of one's self, such as the "path of the sword" (creature), followed by the "Snake" (self -development) in the Kabbalance teaching of Hermeticism. In other words, Košťál examines the soul of man by painting it. The woman looks at her own murder instead of the crime of her own murder while the deceased man with an erect penis massages the nipples. However, this bizarre scene of two ghosts representing the vanity and comicality of all human action is just a backdrop for a sinister figure of a cat with phosphorescent female eyes, who seemed to step out of Verlain's "femme et chatte", throwing a black shadow as Harpuna. The devilish feline materials to materialize a poisonous feeling, which is also the leitmotif of the whole exhibition, ie aggression. According to this hypothesis, the strength of aggression is proportional to the designs and its purpose is catharsis, which we experience in the immersion of broom images. Rolo May as a key personality of American psychology dealing with schizoid states in the book "Love and Will" names the basic human tendencies as "daimon": "Daimonic is an urgent need to confirm himself, assert himself, maintain and grow. [...] Whenever possible - we squeeze ”. The broom deliberately reminds us of these suppressed motifs on its canvas and sets us in its exhibition not just a simple mirror, but straight mirror maze that we have to go through.
So the family, etc.), there is no way to talk about life other than a perverse lottery. The broom cynically experiment on the viewer and, as a biblical snake, serves his apple of sin, just to take him again and ate himself again. Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking said that Einstein was wrong when he said that God was not playing in the dice. However, in the sphere of art and imagination, it is us who can throw cubes with the exclamation of "Aleo Iacta est". Do so!
- Kamil Prince
🗓 Vernissage: Monday, April 21, 2025 at 18:00
📍 Hidden Bořivojova, Bořivojova 106, Prague 3 The chapter in the Hidden Bořivojov program - this time focused on the distinctive voices of contemporary Czech paintings. Smaller formats, raw scenes, Baroque symbolism in which concern hangs in the air like smoke. Košťál leads us to a world where happiness does not exist and bad luck has its own language - painting, ironic and subversive beautiful.
curator text was written by Kamil Prince. SAT: 15: 00–18: 00
🔮 Come and throw a cube. Alea Iacta est. canvas of their paintings. The exhibition "Bad Luck" is composed mainly of smaller formats as one big mosaic of evil, where each painting represents one clock in his magnificent symphony of tragic and melancholy.
The ubiquitous danger of combined with a high intellectual level of the chosen artistic "language". Gothic folklore on the edge between Midsommar and Lynch's psychothrillers majority shows the characters of women in sadistic and masochistic roles, when a woman is a parable of the raped Dorothy Valllens and in the blood bathing. Followed by a burning girl and a pair of amputated girls' legs. All these terrible revelations inspired by the Jungian archetype "Anima" represent the metaphorical embodiment of the dark aspects of the human psyche, and, like Braun's allegory, "vices" in the Baroque bitch materialize everything bad in us. At the same time, they are also the means of the painter's introspection and knowledge of one's self, such as the "path of the sword" (creature), followed by the "Snake" (self -development) in the Kabbalance teaching of Hermeticism. In other words, Košťál examines the soul of man by painting it. The woman looks at her own murder instead of the crime of her own murder while the deceased man with an erect penis massages the nipples. However, this bizarre scene of two ghosts representing the vanity and comicality of all human action is just a backdrop for a sinister figure of a cat with phosphorescent female eyes, who seemed to step out of Verlain's "femme et chatte", throwing a black shadow as Harpuna. The devilish feline materials to materialize a poisonous feeling, which is also the leitmotif of the whole exhibition, ie aggression. According to this hypothesis, the strength of aggression is proportional to the designs and its purpose is catharsis, which we experience in the immersion of broom images. Rolo May as a key personality of American psychology dealing with schizoid states in the book "Love and Will" names the basic human tendencies as "daimon": "Daimonic is an urgent need to confirm himself, assert himself, maintain and grow. [...] Whenever possible - we squeeze ”. The broom deliberately reminds us of these suppressed motifs on its canvas and sets us in its exhibition not just a simple mirror, but straight mirror maze that we have to go through.
So the family, etc.), there is no way to talk about life other than a perverse lottery. The broom cynically experiment on the viewer and, as a biblical snake, serves his apple of sin, just to take him again and ate himself again. Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking said that Einstein was wrong when he said that God was not playing in the dice. However, in the sphere of art and imagination, it is us who can throw cubes with the exclamation of "Aleo Iacta est". Do so!
- Kamil Prince