Vernisáž | Zuzana Svatik: Dating Mr. Proper

We invite you to open the exhibition Zuzana Svakik Dating Mr. Proper on Wednesday, July 9 at 7 pm

We look forward to you along with the author and curator Lucia Gavulová.

"Dating Mr. Proper/Dating with MR. Property is the first separate exhibition of Zuzana Svatík in Bratislava. He walks from the chamber ceramic media to large format and multifunctional sculptures, on the field of free visual creation. Through the sculptures presented in the interior and exterior of the gallery, he tells like through the bodies - stubborn, injured, grotesque, unclean, connected by a drifting desire to survive. In his work, programmatically demolish the idea of ​​benefits, cleanliness, gender stereotypes, but also about the current visual art and its means of expression.

At the White & Weiss Gallery exhibition, mostly bodies that "flow" will be presented harmoniously, in the opposition to the contents that spew out. It is a comprehensive manifestation of the author's resistance to the standards: the role of a man/father, conventions, a model of a nuclear family, a collective stereotype on "female role", masculinity as power standards and cultural trauma, associated with childhood and adolescence in the post-social state of Eastern Europe.

All this Zuzana Svatík is coming through the pearl penises, hyperrealistic logos, labutes from a funfair, nudity in boats, a means of extinction of the Raid and Brand Mr. Proper, as a universally known figure of a strong, muscular, pure, fragrant and flawless man, as a symbol of capitalist authority over the body, household, aesthetics and language. The relationship between the artist and is subversive and uncompromisingly critical. " She graduated in Berlin. Belgium, France, Italy and Israel were awarded the Category of the Year category in 2018. VŠVU. - 18.00, closed during public holidays


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