Daniel Hanzlík (CZ), Eberhard Havekost (DE), Adéla Matasová (CZ), Pavel Mrkus (CZ), Frank Nitsche (DE)

Speed is proving to be a great cultural revolutionary.

(Peter Borscheid)

The international Czech-German project is based on the mutual permeability of traditional (painting, drawing) and new media (projection, video, audio-visual installations), which are close to each other in terms of expression, because, by sharing certain social conditions and thought principles, they also generate a related aura of testimony. As a rule, this is an analogous movement of forms – static or dynamic, which on the one hand inform of the “state of affairs” through digital means (Pavel Mrkus), on the other hand, return new impulses and different ways of “formatting” to traditional means of expression, such as the image (Daniel Hanzlík). The human experiential potential is expanded by new, purely visual strategies (Eberhard Havekost, Frank Nitsche) or emotionally powerful audio-visual and photographic explications (Adéla Matasová).

Each of the selected works either re-establishes an attempt at the verifiability of the physically existing world, thereby testing the limits of human perception, or, on the contrary, reflects the disappearance of physical presence (representation) in art, albeit vicarious or symbolic, as we know this “presence” from artistic manifestations of the past.

CACHE neutralizes shocks to ensure the functioning of human consciousness, but also obliterates the traces of what caused the shock. It is an ongoing, chained state of dialectical counterpoint from which human beings cannot escape. That is why they must constantly reflect on it.

Curator: Petr Vaňous