| Roman Ondák | Czech Pavilion | ||
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| With “Loop” he has developed a sculptural in-situ work for the Venice Biennial that expressly deals with the relationship between reality and art by taking a section of this reality – the park landscape between the exhibition pavilions with their greenery, the bushes, trees and paths – and closely replicating it, then shifting this copy, so to speak, into the interior of the pavilion. This is a shift that could also be called a continuation of external reality into that of the art space. The path to the pavilion leads without interruption or obstacles into the building on one side, crosses through it and leads out of it again on the other side. Crossing an art space and thus a zone of altered conventions of attention, perception and interpretation would remain almost unnoticed, if there were not this external encasement of the pavilion, which in this setting is suggestive of an over-sized empty container, open at the bottom and arbitrarily placed over a piece of nature. When entering the space of art, one usually leaves everyday reality behind and takes this step expecting and aware of the altered rules that apply in this territory. Here, however, it is unclear in every respect which territory the space we enter belongs to. | “His works can be readable even if they are not recognised as works of art. Even more, he sometimes uses art as a means to sharpen our attention to every-day life and to situations in it that can often be readable, metaphorical and poetic too.“ (Igor Zabel) |
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| Roman Ondák was born 1966 in Zilina (Slovakia). |
53.Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte - La Biennale di Venezia - Making Worlds/Fare mondi - Padiglioni nazionali |
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