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Michal Gabriel in the MINI Gallery: The Heart Opener – exhibition opening
The exhibition offers an unconventional view of the work of one of the most prominent Czech postmodern sculptors – Michal Gabriel. It invites you into the landscape of stories and memories, which the author materialized using 3D printing in the form of dioramas. The exhibition Opener of Hearts, which was originally presented at the Karpuchina gallery in Prague in 2022, will be presented again by Michal Gabriel on November 21. at 18:00 in the MINI Gallery on the premises of the Faculty of architecture of the BUT at Poříčí 5 in Brno, where it will be on view until December 15. The curator of the exhibition is Radek Wohlmuth.
The Heart Opener exhibition presents a different work than what we are used to seeing from Michal Gabriel. It is based on the author's many years of experience with 3D printing, and the classic medium of sculpture is replaced here by dioramas, which are based on visual thinking about the hybrid format of the sculptural image, which gradually transformed into the form of "sculptural postcards". This resulted in works created without the intervention of human hands, which in this case have been replaced by digital technologies. The medium of 3D printing thus becomes more than just a technique that can be used to create models in the process of realizing classical sculptures. In this regard, Gabriel transcends his own shadow and focuses his work precisely on digital sculpture as such.
The romantic 3D views of people staring at the landscape are at the same time a personal reflection on the dematerialization of the sculpture as well as an effort to rediscover the meaning of a walk as an experience that can be used to step out of everyday life. Gabriel's sculptural paintings work with the motif of the romantic suspension of a person facing the landscape, which in this case is inspired by Šumava mysticism. A synthetic landscape distilled from polygons appears to be artificial in every way, but the opposite is true. Not only is it anchored in Michal Gabriel's personal mythology and resonates with his experiences and memories from his childhood, but it is also modeled on real Radek Wohlmuth (born 1967) is a Czech art historian, art critic and publicist. motifs from forest interiors – trees, mushrooms and Šumava menhirs with names handed down for generations: Goddess, Moon Monk and Wind Stone, Opener of Hearts, after which the entire project was named.
Gabriel's "sculptural postcards" thus create a spatial album of separate pilgrimage stops or unexpected natural encounters of specific people taken out of their daily routine and ordinary civilized environment. However, these romantic motifs of pilgrimage also take on less traditional forms here, for example in the form of cycling. Sorting the dioramas one after the other in a circling line can evoke precisely a gradual pilgrimage through the landscape, which the visitors can experience through these "sculptural postcards".
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