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Email PageFace Lift: 3 Contemporary Czech and Slovak Artists
May 1, 2007- May 26, 2007
Reception: May 3, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Lucie Nimcová, Alena Kotzmannová, Kateřina Šedá
A.I.R. Gallery
511 W 25th StA.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce, Facelift: 3 Contemporary Czech and Slovak Artists, curated by A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship Award Recipient, Marni Horwitz. The exhibition will be on view May 1 - May 26, 2007. The Opening Reception will be held Thursday, May 3 from 6pm to 8pm. Artist panel and open discussion with Charlotta Kotik, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, will be held Monday, May 7th from 6pm to 8pm.
Facelift showcases the work of three prominent contemporary Czech and Slovakian women artists: Lucie Nimcová, photojournalist; Alena Kotzmannová, photographer and installation artist; and Kateřina Šedá, video artist. Conveying the new “globalized” atmosphere, the artists address personal and political changes in their native Czech and Slovakian Republics. Alena Kotzmannová’s “Station to Station,” propels us back in time, presenting a distinctly post-soviet landscape, while Lucie Nimcová’s photographs depict Czech and Slovakian women remodeling themselves based on modern and western norms, with both sad and humorous results. In Kateřina Šedá’s “NIC TAM NENÍ” (There Is Nothing), a project that includes 300 small village inhabitants, the villagers at first seem connected only by their common claim that “nothing happens”. In response to the sense of decay in their community, Šedá creates a game which synchronizes the villagers’ daily routines so that everyone does exactly the same things at exactly the same time, renewing the villager’s sense of unity.
Kotzmannová, Nimcová and Šedá each question what is now considered “normal” in the Czech and Slovak Republics and confront the precarious balance between having a strong cultural and national identity while also identifying with the global community. Facelift weaves these poignant and specific cultural questions through today’s broader global challenges.
Books and DVDs related to artists in this show
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