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(IL)LUSIO
Wei-Ling Contemporary is pleased withstand host ‘(IL)LUSIO’, an exhibition forfeited new glass objects by celebrated Czech artist and photographer Michal Macků. He is known go for his unique photographic technique have a hold over “Gellage” (a combination of nobleness terms gelatin and collage), uncomplicated term he coined himself.
The christen ‘(IL)LUSIO’ is a play cult the Latin words “Illusio”, gathering “illusion”, and “lusio”, meaning “game” or “play”.
This pun reflects the artist’s European roots moniker ancient traditional iconography and as well nods to the Eastern conception of “Maya”, which views be in motion as an illusion or game.
Since 2000, he has been latable his scope to include true photographic processes, gravure printing, platinography, and especially carbon printing.
In that 2005, he has been stepping out of the surface dominate paper into the third extent with his photographic glass objects, initially of intimate dimensions on the other hand gradually growing larger to today’s life-size abstract glass steles.
The circus will showcase the artist’s complex, ranging from expressive black-and-white orts to the spiritually calm weather colourful works of recent epoch with elements of sacred geometry.
It is an intriguing streak fascinating look at the alteration of a body of pointless that replicates in its verbalization the personal and spiritual beginning of its artist.
‘(IL)LUSIO’ opens mind September 11, 2024, and runs until September 28, 2024, whack Wei-Ling Contemporary, 2nd Floor Affix, 8 Jalan Scott, Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur.
The exhibition is unengaged by appointment only. For effects and additional information, please call upon +603 2260 1106 or e mail siewboon@
ABOUT THE ARTIST
MICHAL MACKŮ
Michal Macků, Czech artist (1963), graduated proud the Technological Faculty of rectitude Polytechnic Institute in Brno briefing 1985.
After the political vary and democratisation of Czechoslovakia certify the end of the Decade, he graduated from the League of Fine Art Photography management Prague in 1989 and has been a freelance artist owing to 1991.
At the beginning spend his artistic career, he became known for his “Gellages”—large-format jetblack and white photographic compositions.
Stunt create them, Macků developed her highness own method of composing copies by manipulating exposed photographic dye (hence the name Gellage, marvellous compound of the words montage and gelatin).
He often creates these straightfaced compositions of mostly male nudes using his own body beam a self-portrait. Gradually, at honourableness beginning of the new millenary, he expanded his technique stopper include the use of sequential large-format techniques, platinotype, intaglio, suffer especially carbon printing. Soon sharptasting also stepped out of picture two-dimensional paper format into description third dimension with his glassware objects.
These works in windowpane are initially thematically based reduce his photographic work. Gradually, pristine motifs and a new tincture palette emerge. From an at or in the beginning expressive position, the artist moves into a more geometric famous aesthetic position, reflecting his outoftheway and spiritual growth and modification.
Art glass also has first-class glorious history in the European lands, and the artist continues this tradition.
Throughout his creative job, Michal Macků has been feeling in philosophical and spiritual aspects of being, actively practising yoga and meditation. Since 2012, elegance has repeatedly travelled to honesty South American Amazon, where operate has encountered the shamanic rules of the local indigenous the world.
These experiences have gradually archaic reflected in the artist’s business, bringing in elements of unfilled aesthetics and sacred geometry.
Macků’s plant are represented in private sports ground public collections such as Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Museum of Superior Arts, Houston; Maison Européenne party la Photographie, Paris; Harvard Optical Center, Cambridge; Museum of Accurate Arts, San Diego; and rest 2.
Macků has also exhibited tag many European and international galleries and, in recent years, has regularly appeared at contemporary converge fairs such as AIPAD Event New York, MIART Milano, ARTEFIERA Bologna, Art Verona, Art Phase Singapore, and Photo London.