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(magyarul)
Tomás
Pospech
2 November - 2 December 2006
Opening : 2 November 2006, 8 p.m.
Small sceneries.jpg,
(2002 – 2005)
20 large format contact photographs, in size 12x16cm
and 12x24cm
The series is based on
the long tradition of Czech landscape photography.
Its imagery quotes classics, like Josef Sudek or Jan
Reich. Technique used still is traditional: technical
camera, large format negative. The photographed scenery
only exists virtually. Rendered mountains, forests
and meadows from computer games.
The photographer takes a picture of the monitor. This
work implies several question, beyond the present
roll and significance of the medium. It reflects on
basic conflicts of our contemporary and future existence,
eg.: credible and created space-time representation,
real and virtual identity,…
Castle owners
(2004 – 2005)
This project deals with a specific Czech phenomenon:
The making of garden models of real as well as imaginary
castles and mansions and their utilization as part
of an aesthetical stressing of gardens, village greens
or squares or railway stations. The extensive photographic
collection pays attention to the relations between
these buildings and their owners and the original
adumbrations: Panegyric, patriotic publications on
Czech castles and mansions, teaching about the Czech
lands.
Tomas Pospech was
born in 1974. Earned a Bachelor´s degree in Art History
in Art Hostory and Theory from the Palacký University,
Olomouc (1995), a Master´s degree in the same discipline
from the Charles University, Prague (1999), and a
Master´s degree from the Institute of Creative Photography,
Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Silesian University
in Opava (1998). Teaches at Institute of Creative
Photography, Head of the Theory Section at the Faculty
of Multimedia Communications, Tomas Bata University,
Zlín, since 1997. An active critic and researcher
in photography, visual arts and history of architecture.
At the centre of Tomas Pospech´s creative work is
documentary photography (see his contributions to
projects People in the Hlucin Area in the 1990s, and
The People of Zlín, personalised documentary series
Islands, the Rýnovice prison series, his book showing
the construction of a Philips factory in Hranice in
2001, etc.), contemporary still life, and occasionally
happenings and performance art.
The exhibition is part of the program of the Month
of Photography, 2006.
www.fotohonap.hu
Támogatta: Cseh Centrum
www.photolumen.hu
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