Exhibition opening
Reinhold Zisser: Lavka-Notgalerie with introduction of the art intervention by David Přílučík

We cordially invite you to the ceremonial unveiling of the Reinhold Zisser installation: Lávka-Notgalerie in Koliště Park behind the House of Arts. At the same time, there will be a presentation of the first art intervention My Sun, My Sun, What have you done? David Přílučík.

LAVKA-NOTGALERIE

The exhibition title refers to two art projects. The first is Notgalerie, both an art centre and a work of art, which came into existence in 2015 through the appropriation of an abandoned wooden church in a suburb of Vienna. Through this act, Reinhold Zisser demonstrated his idea that in relation to institutions, an artist resembles a hermit crab slipping into an empty shell, only to leave it after some time and to move into another one.

During his residence in Brno, Zisser met the artist Martin Zet who was then completing his exhibition Sculptor Miloš Zet: Walls, Pedestals and Models in the Brno House of Arts. The exhibition included LÁVKA, a wooden bridge approximately 30 metres long running through the exhibition. When Zisser returned to Austria,, he and Zet prepared a joint project in which they transported LÁVKA to Vienna in summer 2020 and installed it next to Notgalerie, on the edge of an expanding satellite city.

LÁVKA-NOTGALERIE echoes this artistic communication. Its central points are now parts of the bridge whose half was dismantled and transferred back to Brno. It thus embodies a moment of separation as well as the connection between Vienna and Brno. To complement the project, artists from the Czech Republic and Austria are invited to develop the symbolic level of the work by means of various interventions (performances and temporary installations) on both halves of the bridge.

MY SUN, MY SUN, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?

The installation My Sun, My Sun, What have you done? by David Přílučík is the first installation at the new Meta-art object Lávka-Notgalerie. This was created as a cooperation between Czech artist Martin Zet and Viennese artist Reinhold Zisser and was originally erected as part of Martin Zet's solo exhibition at the House of Arts Brno. In the summer of 2020, the 30-meter-long installation was translocated to the Notgalerie project in Seestadt Aspern, and recently half of it was moved back to Brno, where from now on, it will establish a connection between the Vienna Seestadt location and Brno.

David Přilučík's intervention works with the motif of insect light traps. His work My Sun, My Sun, What have you done? is shifting the logic of hunting and extermination not only to attract visitors's attention, but also to those we have tried to consistently and systematically pull out of our interiers, wardrobes, meals and bloodstreams. With the use of UV light he attracts moths and other nocturnal insects that now bring the installation to life. The inverse light trap thus functions as an ambivalent space for interspecies meeting and asks questions about the form of our mutual coexistence. Radiation from UV lamps is called black light, and like this phrase, these black rays shining through the exposed objects carry a contradiction: they must shine to want darkness.

David Přílučík graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. During his studies he went through the studios of Jiří Lindovský, Tomáš Vaněk, Ruth Noack and Simon Waschmuth. He was the member of Studio Without Master initiative (2015 -2019), a also cooperates with NGOs and activist organizations. Works as a member of the editorial board of Artyčok TV platform for contemporary art. The central motif of his work is that of posthumanist thought which reflects the human’s (subject’s) crisis of identity in living among the ruins of the great figures of Western thought (Culture x Nature). His work has been presented in USA, Israel, Germany, Russia, Hungary,Slovakia and Czech Republic. His video Blind Bidding won the main prize of the competition Other Vision CZ at the 16th Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art PAF Olomouc.

https://www.works.io/david-prilucik/curriculum-vitae
https://artycok.tv/en/director/prilucik-david