Opnun fimmtudag 3.nov.kl.17.00-19.00
Einnig opið Föstudag 4 nov og Laugardag. 5.nov. Kl. 14.00-17.00.
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Þau hafa dvalið í gestavinnustofu Artak350 í Grundarfiði í october mánuði og er þessi sýning afrakstur þeirra vinnu á meða á dvölinni stóð.

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Þetta hafa listamennirnir um dvölina og sýninguna að segja.
Einnig er stutt ferilskrá í lokinn:

Þar sem þau eru bæði vön að vinna með ýmsa miðla frá ljósmyndun, vídeó, gjörninga, hljóð o.s.frv.,

er samanstendur sýning af mánaðar löngu hugsunarferli, umræðum, tilraunum og mistökum,

misheppnuðum hugmyndum, drögum, líkamsrækt og kannski líka glansandi efni … mánaðar langt ferli að leita að enda regnbogans …
Þau vita aldrei hvernig ferlið endar, en njóta alltaf útkömunar.
Að lokum er alltaf von. Það verður allt í lagi. Þetta reddast eins og íslendingarnir segja!

Martina Mäsiarová and Ľuboš Kotlár have been close friends since their studies at Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava,

Slovakia. Although Martina studied at the Department of Painting whereas Ľuboš graduated in Photography and New Media,

they both have expanded to other media and art forms (visual and performative) and in many ways their approach to artistic

practice is very close. Since they finished their studies in 2018 they have already collaborated on several projects and

exhibitions in collaboration with other artists together (exhibitions Attic in City Gallery of Bratislava, mountain2 in New

Synagogue in Žilina, Future perfect Simple Continuous in Slovak National Museum and theatre play Death of Mr.T

produced by theatre ensemble GAFFA in Bratislava).
Although their art practice might seem leading to different directions, there are issues and topics where they overlap.

They like to perceive and explore the nature and bodily experience within the landscape. What they both find unbelievably

appealing is the power of the Moon and other celestial objects, they’re closeness and distance, sky, clouds, darkness,

non-linearity of time, mere existence of the body within that time and space, ephemeral and elusive phenomena.

As they both are used to work with various media from photography, video, performance, sound etc., the final installation in Artak105 Gallery is a result of a month long thinking process, discussions,

trials and errors, failed concepts, drafts, fitness and maybe also shiny stuff…a month long process of looking for the end of a rainbow…
They never know how it ends, but they always enjoy how it goes.
Eventually, there is always hope. It will be okay.

Supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council

Ľuboš Kotlár (*1991) is a photographer, visual artist and curator. He is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, department of Photography and New Media. During his studies he did student exchanges at Aalto School of Arts Design and Architecture in Helsinki and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. He is one of the founders and active members of the dsk. artist collective, founded in 2012. His main focus is his own artistic practice, photography, editorial and curator’s work. He is currently teaching at Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava.
Martina Mäsiarová (*1991) graduated in the Department of painting in the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia. She attended numerous foreign internships and residencies (Wroclaw-Poland, Porto-Portugal, Not Quiet – Sweden, Fish Factory – Iceland…). Her main focus is in creating inter and transmedia projects with observation through drawing as a usual starting point, which later leads to extension to spatial installations, site-specific interventions, creating complex environments, atmospheric situations. She is a member of art collective 1+1+1+1=1. Currently she is active as a lecturer of art education and curator in Žilina, Slovakia.