Lubomír Typlt - Turbína v noci
15.7.2009, Prague
LUBOMÍR TYPLT (1975)
The paintings of Lubomír Typlt (1975) are specific for the rawness of their form and the coarseness of their content. The artist elaborates his myth of the human individual through expressive painting, a refined drawing-like quality, and absurd spatial installations. Absent from Typlt’s dynamic world, which contains elements of metaphysical speculation that work on the level of figuration and abstract expression, is any traditional linear temporality or distinguishable space. He works with motifs of recurring recycling, cyclicity, multiplication, and so on. The artist studied at Czech universities (VŠUP Prague, FaVU VUT Brno) and abroad at Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf (Prof. Markus Lüpertz, Prof. Gerhard Merz, Prof. A. R. Penck). He has been exhibiting since the end of the 1990s at home and abroad, mainly in Germany and the Netherlands. His works were included as part of the important art projects Perfect Tense / Painting Today (2003-04), Intercity: Berlin – Prague (2004, 2005), Happy Days (2005), Skull Collectors (2007), and Resetting / Other Paths to Eternity (2007-08).
TURBINE AT NIGHT
The title of the exhibition for Vernon City Gallery is derived from the title of one of the artist’s key paintings. TURBINE AT NIGHT (2008) is a Duchampesque absurdist construction that with its signal dichromatic quality oscillates between abstraction and objectivity, flat painting, and a designed technical outline, to realise a kind of utopian object. The meaning of the title is a reference to the ‘life of technology’, which, unlike man, works constantly, without rest, day and night.
The project follows the structure of the exhibition spaces and is thus divided up into three parts. The first, opening part presents large-format paintings and drawings that contain dynamic motifs of mechanical abstraction creating interconnected structural links. The second part comprises a selection of figural, sarcastically toned and vividly coloured gouaches and temperas. The third room is dominated by a spatial installation made out of found useful objects, which appear in parallel as motifs in Typlt’s paintings.
The human individual and the individual’s consciousness is here confronted with nature’s laws of birth and death, as well as with the technical and technological processes that are mechanically repeated so that humanity obtains all its requisite services on a macro and micro scale. Human energy is here sceptically measured against the more powerful ‘life of technology’, which, however, draws on other, strategic, natural sources; thence the absurdity of the entire cycle, starting with the bicycle and ending with the turbine or power plant.
The curator of the exhibition is Petr Vaňous
CONTACT
For more information, photographs, and other materials, please contact:
Markéta Faustová/PR
+420 773 915 501, marketa.faustova@tina-b.com
LUBOMÍR TYPLT (1975)
The paintings of Lubomír Typlt (1975) are specific for the rawness of their form and the coarseness of their content. The artist elaborates his myth of the human individual through expressive painting, a refined drawing-like quality, and absurd spatial installations. Absent from Typlt’s dynamic world, which contains elements of metaphysical speculation that work on the level of figuration and abstract expression, is any traditional linear temporality or distinguishable space. He works with motifs of recurring recycling, cyclicity, multiplication, and so on. The artist studied at Czech universities (VŠUP Prague, FaVU VUT Brno) and abroad at Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf (Prof. Markus Lüpertz, Prof. Gerhard Merz, Prof. A. R. Penck). He has been exhibiting since the end of the 1990s at home and abroad, mainly in Germany and the Netherlands. His works were included as part of the important art projects Perfect Tense / Painting Today (2003-04), Intercity: Berlin – Prague (2004, 2005), Happy Days (2005), Skull Collectors (2007), and Resetting / Other Paths to Eternity (2007-08).
TURBINE AT NIGHT
The title of the exhibition for Vernon City Gallery is derived from the title of one of the artist’s key paintings. TURBINE AT NIGHT (2008) is a Duchampesque absurdist construction that with its signal dichromatic quality oscillates between abstraction and objectivity, flat painting, and a designed technical outline, to realise a kind of utopian object. The meaning of the title is a reference to the ‘life of technology’, which, unlike man, works constantly, without rest, day and night.
The project follows the structure of the exhibition spaces and is thus divided up into three parts. The first, opening part presents large-format paintings and drawings that contain dynamic motifs of mechanical abstraction creating interconnected structural links. The second part comprises a selection of figural, sarcastically toned and vividly coloured gouaches and temperas. The third room is dominated by a spatial installation made out of found useful objects, which appear in parallel as motifs in Typlt’s paintings.
The human individual and the individual’s consciousness is here confronted with nature’s laws of birth and death, as well as with the technical and technological processes that are mechanically repeated so that humanity obtains all its requisite services on a macro and micro scale. Human energy is here sceptically measured against the more powerful ‘life of technology’, which, however, draws on other, strategic, natural sources; thence the absurdity of the entire cycle, starting with the bicycle and ending with the turbine or power plant.
The curator of the exhibition is Petr Vaňous
CONTACT
For more information, photographs, and other materials, please contact:
Markéta Faustová/PR
+420 773 915 501, marketa.faustova@tina-b.com
