Julien Maire, Robert Vlasák: Inverse Mindset
Julien Maire, Robert Vlasák: Inverse Mindset
Julien Maire, Robert Vlasák: Inverse Mindset
Julien Maire, Robert Vlasák: Inverse Mindset
Julien Maire, Robert Vlasák: Inverse Mindset
Julien Maire, Robert Vlasák: Inverse Mindset
Julien Maire, Robert Vlasák: Inverse Mindset

Julien Maire, Robert Vlasák: Inverse Mindset

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Contemporary art, New media, Screening, Installations

The exhibition uncovers and draws shadow stories of strange (optical and kinetic) apparatuses. There are works by two artists who have developed a distinctive "media-archaeological" method that overturns the established aesthetics and the ideology of the history of art and the history of technology.

French artist Julien Maire is a specialist in "rediscovery," deconstruction of various devices and applications, physical principles and processes. Changes the function and appearance of tools such as a camera, slide projector, or movie projector and shifts their meaning. The Man at Work (2014) is a device for a special kind of stop-motion animation where the illusion of spatiality of the projected image creates a slider on the belt with the shifting of the phased miniature male figures with a shovel. Instantanees (1998) is a similar para-cinematic apparatus: shadow animation of falling water drops on the wall creates a rotating disk with miniature objects located in front of the slide projector lenses. The set of kinetic structures Step-direction (2015) is inspired by the old pantograph principle: they push in and out in space and constantly change their configuration and thus the perspective of the viewer.

Robert Vlasák is also on the unclear boundary of the author's artefact and invention. He works with physical laws and technical patents, and both of his works are based on the poetics of the found object and assemblage. Sound installation Siréna (2017) is a variation of the instrument invented by Augustus Seebeck in the middle of the 19th century and extended by an old compressor. Vrtuloid (2018) is a unidirectional system of slowly rotating propellers from automobile coolers suspended from the ceiling on the drive shaft. The device drives a fuel mixture of serious playability and precision - an inverse, unconventional view of our strange, miraculous world.

Julien Maire (* 1969) is a French artist who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Metz, lives and works in Brussels. Since the mid-1990s, he has been working on performance, installation, and cinematography. It creates performative work on the boundaries of genres and media, exploring mostly the materiality of the moving image.

Robert Vlasák (* 1978) is a visual artist who lives and works in Ústí nad Labem. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Technical University in Brno (Faculty of Applied Art and Design UJEP in Ústí nad Labem, Faculty of Applied Art and Design, Prof. Jaroslav Prášil, 1997-2001). At the present time, the Studio Natural Materials at the Faculty of Art and Design of UJEP in Ústí nad Labem leads.

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