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Email PageCzech and Austrian Photography
April 28, 2006- June 17, 2006
Miro Svolik, Paul Ickovic, Helmut Grill
Remy Toledo Gallery
529 W 20th St Helmut Grill 1.dez.2004, Astarte series (2006) |  Helmut Grill 13.okt.2004, Astarte series (2006) |  Miro Svolik Education (1986) |
 Miro Svolik Untitled, My Life as a Man series (1986) |  Paul Ickovic Paris 1964 |
Miro Svolik also manipulates his images by staging his photographs or assembling them in collages. The pictures he creates overflow with warmth and sudden poetry of a favorite tale retold by a new imaginative storyteller. They provoke with their wit and the seeming simplicity of their message. Svolik's works remind us that photography is about the contrast between the straightforward documented truth and the implications that the curves make as they transform themselves from nudes to landscapes to sketch-like silhouettes.
According to Paul Ickovic himself, the artist works with "formal, yet humorous portrayals of humanity and the romantic – I am interested in people in the margins. I often shoot people waiting for something to happen." His photographs are honest in their unmanipulated technique as well as in their use of the decisive moment in which he captures his subjects.
Helmut Grill works with the medium rather than the technique of photography, composing his pictures from fragments of images that exist in the public domain of the Internet. In the Alphapeople series, the pieces fit together to form a face that radiates with a haunting familiarity of a distorted ideal. The Astarte series, on the other hand, offers us a glimpse of sex and violence that is as synthetic as the pop culture that overindulges in both of those universal drives.
About the Artists:
Slovak-born, Czech photographer, Miro Svolik is a well-known artist, whose works can be found at major museums in Europe and the US, like the MoMA and International Center of Photography, New York, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Born in 1960, Svolik trained at the FAMU Prague (1981 – 1987) and played a major part in the Slovak New Wave of photography in the 1980s. He currently resides and works in Prague.
Paul Ickovic's works can be found in the collections of MoMA, International Center of Photography, Harvard University, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, and National Gallery of Art, Prague. He lives and works in Sag Harbor, NY.
Helmut Grill lives and works in Vienna. His works have been exhibited in galleries in Europe and North and South America since 1995, including the Westwood Gallery in New York.
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