jaroslav malík

The roots of another endless collection of prose Rose can be found in India in autumn 1999 where I stayed with the group Milan to present our project “My Space” at the Czech embassy in Bombay. I went to India with the intention to take photos. Being there I suddenly lost all my perceptions. I was fascinated by old giant sculptures of local deities, inspired by ancient culture of exotic country. Everything was new, different, suprising / I will never forget the way from the Bombay airport to the embassy /. Here I took first photos for my collection that I was creating after that for two years. I finished the collection in my studio using classical photomontage. As Martin Smekal mentioned in his review:’ In his last collection he confronts found, useless things and mummified bodies of small animals to exotic Indian artefacts. And in this way he discovers the connection between the ancient and the temporary, the near and the far, the exotic and the everyday. He leaves us wandering somewhere on the edge between the capturing beauty and the fascinating ugliness of his fanciful still lives.”
One part of the presentation is a few metre tall giant enlargement installed in suitable interiors, e.g. St. Wenceslas Church in Opava, in the theatre Husa na provazku in Brno, in the castle in Moravska Trebova, in the clinic in Ostrava…
During the opening, theatrical, musical and dance performances loosely tied to the exhibition will take place

Jaroslav Malik