Matěj Smetana
Matěj Smetana, (born 1980) studied the School of Creative Arts (FaVU) in Brno at the Painting 3 studio of Petr Kvíčala as well as the Intermedia studio. He is the creator of installations, comics, and videos. He expresses opinions on artistic institutions, focusing on the themes of error and inappropriateness. For example, he photographed scratches in works of minimalistic classics by Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt and John McCracken. He often addresses the relationship between purposefully set limits and happenchance. He sorts out the spatial relationships of 3D bodies, created from a specific shift from existing symbolic shapes. His series of wooden objects, Flags / Vlajky (2002) is based on the form of four national flags elaborated with the help of an intersection of geometric bodies. The object, Czechoid / Českoid (2003), stems from the premise of a rotating surface for the Czech Republic; the piece Hradčanoid (2006) builds upon it. It is an extended cylindrical mesh object, created based on the rotating silhouette of Prague Castle.
He worked his way into the field of motion pictures with the video, It’s Only a Film / Je to jenom film, when he redrew three trailers for classic horror films on tracing paper and complemented them with their original soundtracks. The themes of coincidence can also be found in the installation, Remix, which toys with the idea of the existence of a special intelligent conscience in media reports. Their decoding takes place with the help of selecting and marking word or letter order from copies of books, photographs of film subtitles or from a label on a lawn mower, which together create an „existential“message.
Author of the annotation: Lenka Dolanová
CV
2001-2007 VUT v Brně, fakulta výtvarných umění (at. Intermedia, Kresba a Malířství 3)
2008-souč. AVU v Praze, doktorandské studium (at. J. Příhody)
Scholarships:
2005 Magyar Iparmuveszeti Egyetem, Budapest, Maďarsko
Solo exhibitions
2009 Návody / Instructions, Atrium, Pražákův palác, Moravská galerie, Brno
2009 Schody vedoucí do nikam / Off-road (s Filipem Smetanou), galerie Benzínka, Slaný
2008 Vysílání, galerie Pavilon, Praha
2007 Hradčanoid, Pražákův palác- prostor pro jedno dílo, Brno
2007 Kino, Galerie Mladých, Brno
2007 Neobyčejná místnost, galerie G99, Brno
2006 Dědičné postižení (s Filipem Smetanou), galerie Jelení, Praha
2005 Remix, galerie Půda, Jihlava
2005 Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt a John McCracken jsou jako my + Je to jenom film, A.M.180, Praha
2004 Řez, Pražákův palác- prostor pro jedno dílo, Brno
Group exhibitions included in ARTLIST.
Street for Art
UMAKART (U Make Art), 2010
Group exhibitions not included in ARTLIST.
2010 PAF PARIS, Eglise Saint Merry, Paris, Francie
2009 Videomedeja, Muzeum Vojvodiny, Novi Sad, Srbsko
2009 Teleskopické studio, Galerie Václava Špály, Praha
2009 So Much More, Meet Factory, Praha
2009 Revised Edition, GUMstudio, Carrara, Itálie
2009 V. Zlínský salon mladých 2009, KGVU Zlín, Zlín
2009 100perCENTO, GUMstudio, Carrara, Itálie
2009 Hlava, Karlín studios, Praha
2008 Bienala Tinerilor Artisti, la MNAC, Bucuresti, Rumunsko
2008 6. bienale mladého umění Zvon 2008, Dům u Kamenného zvonu, Praha
2008 L’art en Europe, Vranken Pommery, Reims, Francie
2008 Cargo 2008, Budapešť, Maďarsko
2008 Fetisch Versus Evocation, Galerie der HBK, Braunschweig, Německo
2007 Neexistuju když mě nevidíš, galerie Futura, Praha
2007 Kaleidoskop, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Španělsko
2007 Vylepšený model, kulhavý efekt, NoD, Praha
2007 Collector's Live Re-Edit, Dům pánů z Kunštátu, Brno
2007 Finalisté ceny Start point, Galerie Sýpka, Klenová
2007 Výstava diplomantů FaVU, Galerie Brno, Brno
2007 Friendly film from the Czech Republic, East Coast Amiens, New York, USA
2006 Eastern Alliance 3 / Teledivision Show, Centrul de Artă Contemporană KSA Chisinau, Moldávie
2006 Eastern Alliance 3 / Teledivision Show, Muzeul national de arta contemporana, Bucharest, Rumunsko
2006 IV. Zlínský salon mladých 2006, KGVU Zlín, Zlín
2006 Shadows of Humour, BWA Wroclaw, Polsko
2006 Land Locked, Well Gallery, London, Velká Británie
2006 Play-time, galerie Entrance- Karlín studios, Praha
2006 Playtime, galerie Brno, Brno
2005 V. bienale mladého umění Zvon 2005, Dům u Kamenného zvonu, Praha
2005 ENTERmultimediale 2, Palác Akropolis, Praha
2004 10 let Favu, Galerie Václava Špály, Praha
2003 10 let FaVU, Dům umění, Brno
2003 Nejmladší, NG Veletržní palác, Praha
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