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At Kostka Gallery, Jozef Mrva Jr. presents new and earlier paintings within a spatial installation developed in collaboration with Ondřej Doskočil. The title fuses the name of the mathcore band The Dillinger Escape Plan with a reference to the tragic crash of the American Space Shuttle Challenger on 28 January 1986 – exactly forty years ago – an event that became a globally shared image, circulated and scrutinised down to the smallest detail.
Mrva Jr. describes his painterly method as collage-based: the works often begin in graphic software and are only later translated into paint. Central to his approach is the collision of two kinds of visuality: on one plane he places technical imagery – diagrams, blueprints, or vector based mathematical models – while alongside it he layers bitmap photographic material set into fields of colour. This bitmap layer functions as a fragmentary internet zeitgeist of the present social reality, composed of obsolete memes, pop-cultural references, and…
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At Kostka Gallery, Jozef Mrva Jr. presents new and earlier paintings within a spatial installation developed in collaboration with Ondřej Doskočil. The title fuses the name of the mathcore band The Dillinger Escape Plan with a reference to the tragic crash of the American Space Shuttle Challenger on 28 January 1986 – exactly forty years ago – an event that became a globally shared image, circulated and scrutinised down to the smallest detail.
Mrva Jr. describes his painterly method as collage-based: the works often begin in graphic software and are only later translated into paint. Central to his approach is the collision of two kinds of visuality: on one plane he places technical imagery – diagrams, blueprints, or vector based mathematical models – while alongside it he layers bitmap photographic material set into fields of colour. This bitmap layer functions as a fragmentary internet zeitgeist of the present social reality, composed of obsolete memes, pop-cultural references, and…
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