Past Residents
Past Resident2013: BRNO University of Technology
Petr Šprincl
Petr Šprincl transforms his own memories into atmospheric, experimental documentaries. Strange, decadent individuals and mysterious phenomena form the basis for his screenplays. His early works focused on performance and art in public space, but since 2008 he has worked primarily in installation and experimental film.
In 2006, Petr Šprincl began to study Art history at Palacký University, Olomouc. There he discovered a studio of intermedia lead by Vladimir Havlik. In 2008, he began to study in the Department of Intermedia, Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology. Aside from visual projects, Šprincl participates in music projects and bands – including the black metal project Ďábel (Devil) and the witchhouse band ◊►≈. As a co-creator and video operator, he is part of the experimental theatre project DOCTOR.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Ruth Campau and Petr Šprincl
October 29, 2013
Petr Šprincl, Warped Jan, 2013, Super 8mm film, 17:08 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Petr Šprincl, Warped Jan, 2013, Super 8mm film, 17:08 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Petr Šprincl, Warped Jan, 2013, Super 8mm, 17:08 min. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Mladych, Brno.
Petr Šprincl, Hollywood, 2012, Super 8mm film, 10:58 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Petr Šprincl, Hollywood, 2012, 8mm film, 10:58 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Czech Republic
Past Resident2013: Foundation for a Civil Society
Saša Tkačenko
Saša Tkačenko’s work examines his attitude toward the social phenomena that affect the environment in which he works and lives. Starting from the visual manifestations, symbols and representations of the occurrences that he aims to understand and analyze by deploying the method of reduction of formal language, he translates the given phenomena into reduced images, simultaneously playing with their content and given meanings. Through sculpture, installation and video he then develops reduced visual settings in a tense dialogue with the space and creates situations for the observer to experience the uncertainties of his persistent reexaminations of symptoms that strongly affect his everyday realities.
Saša Tkačenko (born 1979) is a visual artist based in Belgrade. He holds an M.A. in Sculpture from Belgrade University of Arts, Faculty of Applied Arts. Saša participated in many group, as well as solo shows internationally and locally including the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade; Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg; Garaj, Istanbul; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea del Castello di Rivoli; PerAspera Festival, Bologna; Lukas Feichtner Gallery, Vienna and Lage Egal, Berlin. His works are in the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade and Telenor Collection of Serbian Contemporary Art.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Henrjeta Mece and Saša Tkačenko
October 1, 2013
Saša Tkačenko, Is This Real Life, 2013, 138 × 98 × 59 in. (350.52 × 248.92 × 149.86 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Saša Tkačenko, Perfect Ride, 2012, Video, looped, 5:04 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Saša Tkačenko, Horizon, 2012, Installation, 157 × 157 in. (398.78 × 398.78 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Saša Tkačenko, Fence, 2012, Installation, 88 × 236 × 30 in. (223.52 × 599.44 × 76.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Saša Tkačenko, Handicraft, 2011, 2-channel video installation, looped, 2:30 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2013: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Tung-Lung Wu
For years, Tung-Lung Wu has worked on the manifestation of geometric and organic signs and symbols, adept at shaping the use of space and lines to pursue pure, simple, and abstract representation. His works carry both the calmness of classical paintings as well as the ingenuity of contemporary art. With his accommodating techniques and unique skills, Wu boasts of a distinct artistic style which belongs to a league of its own.
Tung-Lung Wu’s (born 1976, Taipei) works are minimalist abstract paintings, adopting minimal, simple and rationalistic genre, which are filled with his own style. The formation of his paintings consists of a majestic composition interlaced with a delicate and tasteful color palette, delivering a powerful visual tension as well as an underlain calm emotion, and each aspect of semiotic spirit, image space, psychology of forms, and color aesthetic has been prospected and incorporated in his creations. He is one of the few young artists who are devoted to abstract paintings in Taiwan. Wu lives and works in Taipei.
Tung-Lung Wu, Installation view, 2013, ITPARK Gallery Space, Dufftown. Courtesy of the artist and ITPARK Gallery Space, Dufftown.
Tung-Lung Wu, Symbol-66, 2010, Oil on canvas, 48 x 48 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Tung-Lung Wu, Colorlines-10, 2013, Oil on canvas, 60 x 96 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Tung-Lung Wu, Color Lines-12, 2013, Oil on canvas, 72 x 142 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Tung-Lung Wu, Symbol-83, 2012, Oil on canvas, 36 x 36 in. Courtesy of the artist.
