The back wall of the functional cloakroom and Klára Hosnedlová’s art work Studio Oléne is the background or place in which we’ll gradually present one work or project from an artist, designer or photographer working with fashion, superficiality, the world of consumerism and stylization as a characteristic sign of today.
We’ve chosen Petr Písařík’s 2018 piece as a commentary on the space of the cloakroom created by Klára Hosnedlová. We’ve chosen the dialogue of a soft spatial aesthetic typical for the artist belonging to the youngest generation with Písařík’s long term interest in surfaces creating illusions and optical pleasures. We’re interested in the tension between how the world of luxury perceives the representative of the youngest generation for whom a fascination with design is part of an everyday experience in the world of consumption as well as how, on the contrary, Písařík deals with distance, deeming it powerless by desire while simultaneously problematizing it. What’s more, the name of Písařík’s object expands the field of meaning with literary references and unexpected historical depth. Surface deceives us as surface, illusion disappears in the dizziness of time and the materials out of which it was created, confirming the transience of everything.
Petr Písařík: The Name of Skin (Plato, Ostrava)
