Stano Masár: Rozostrená pravda - vernisáž výstavy

We invite to the opening of the exhibition Stano Masár: Aimed Pravda. The author opens up the question of how our memory works - something remains in us a firm, lively memory, while most of the images of the past slowly melts in the unclear forgotten fog. This phenomenon shows that truth is not a solid entity, but rather a fragment that is constantly changing under the influence of time, context and personal experience. We ourselves be responsible for how we perceive, keep and interpret reality.
Masár transforms the known reality into new meaning and visual planes by manipulating common objects. Exhibited objects and installations are not only documents of the past, but rather by living carriers of memories that call on the viewer to actively engage in exploring their meaning. An adapted reading room with a newspaper, a set of postcards on the wall, or the shipping boxes in the corner of the room consists of a site-specific environment in which history encounters personal experience. The blurred newspaper Pravda visually symbolizes the uncertainty and contradiction between real events and political propaganda, between clearly the truth and its blurred, fragmentary imprints in memory. This month, in the context of Slovak and Czechoslovak history, it refers to the events of 1968, which are an important milestone in the collective memory of the country. Subsequently, November 1989 and the tender revolution are another point where the meaning of the truth and its far -reaching message is examined.

Stano Masár (*1971) is an important Slovak post -conceptual artist. His work is known for the strategy of manipulating and transforming ordinary items into new contexts within the site-specific installations. Masár draws influences from dadaism, conceptual art or flux, moving the history of art to the current social and institutional framework. From 1991 to 1996 he studied at the Faculty of Education of Comenius University and in 2012 he graduated from a doctoral studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. In 1994 he carried out a scholarship stay at Thames Valley University in London. He was the ESSL Award and the Oskar Čepan Prize. He regularly exhibits at home and abroad. His works were presented at well -known fairs of contemporary art such as Viennafair Vienna, Pulse New York and Miami, Kunst Zurich, Kunstart Bolzano and so on. He lives and works in Bratislava.