Annotation
The catalogue for Petr Písařík’s exhibition SPACE MAKER (6. 9. 2018 – 25. 11. 2018) in the Rudolfinum Gallery is a representative selection from one of the most difficult to classify Czech artists. Písařík presents his critical thinking primarily through material, colour, shape and composition. In addition, over 100 pages of richly colored images are complemented with texts from the exhibition curator David Korecký and Marek Pokorný, an art critic.
“The beauty, impressive technical ingenuity, brilliant form and often touching, on the verge of paralyzing beauty of the artist’s solutions are all reasons why we do not realize that, on the ruins of our modern civilization and its art, Písařík creates – again and again – something between a memorial and utopia in progress,” writes the art critic Marek Pokorný in his paper “Bez lešení čili Několik postřehů k dílu Petra Písaříka” (“No Scaffolds or Several Observations on Petr Písařík’s Art”).
“Petr Písařík’s work is connected, above all, with the transition from the postmodernity of the 1980’s to the uncertain situation and the differing sensitivity of the 1990’s of the last century. Along with other members of the art group Pondělí (Monday), the artist established not only new conceptions of the artist’s role in an era of transition from normalized socialism to a fragile and illusory liberal societal consensus, but also the possibility to exponate this transposition connected to the topic of artistic practice. That is, what is the possibility in the conditions of a disturbed and discredited discourse to return to the play of intimate (personal political or social) experiences in the world through individual creative strategies and obsessions? In the past Písařík’s work already had the nature of a pre-lost affirmative effort aimed at absorbing the signs and phantoms of a society coping with the deram of the end of history,” says Marek Pokorný.
