{"id":5420,"date":"2006-11-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gmk.esbe.com.hr\/news\/jii-cernicky-ce1ka-republika-metapop\/"},"modified":"2006-11-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T23:00:00","slug":"jii-cernicky-ce1ka-republika-metapop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/news\/jii-cernicky-ce1ka-republika-metapop\/","title":{"rendered":"Jiøí Černický : Metapop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Notorious Humanity<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n

Contemporary visual arts, in past as well as today, reflect the realities of life. Today’s frantic exchange of the images on the screen dictates our everyday reflection and behavior. History is reduced to the short segment of time, lasting as long as the still frame exists. Each and every preceding image and its references are immediately placed and memorized in history, useless and forgotten until command ‘search’ brings them back to the surface of present. The image of yesterday’s event, no matter how important or fascinating, has equal importance as the painting of every day life from Altamira. <\/p>\n

The scenes used or manipulated by Jiøí Černický present a sequence of strange and attractive images. There are: strange teardrop collectors installed in the gallery, white motorcycle helmets with grotesque openings for eyes and mouth. Heroin addict’s kit produced in the finest elaborately cut crystal. The housewife in the kitchen posing with the freakish hairdo suspended by syringes. The manicure set installed in the glass jar full of liquid. The hairbrush full of tender white hairs. The baseball glove with glass bead attachments. Sausage served on plate, decorated with tattoo and metal rings….. If we start to browse through the memorized images and references, the answers we got are webbed notions consisting of the traces of preceding civilizations, fragments of contemporary urban life and glamour of the global culture. Tears, once obligatory supplement of the Roman graves, in this case are shed in the north Czech city and collected in the thermometer. Černický carried it to his pilgrimage in Africa. He gave it as a gift to the monks of the Ethiopia’s sanctuary Lalibela, where it is kept as a relic. The designer team of the German car factory developed the motorcyclist’s helmet after Edvard Munch’s “Scream”. Černický uses it while driving around Prague on the motorcycle or strolling around Dubrovnik. At the same time he recorded perplexed passersby with video camera. The heroin kit executed in the finest crystal has no practical use, but it points to the connection of the traditional culture and global spread of drug abuse. Housewife in the kitchen ambient is contemporary Medusa, dangerously seductive mythical creature. Manicure set and tattooed sausage are made of industrially non-prefabricated skin; subject and object of beautification and adornment are equated. Hairbrush filled with tender white hairs was a personal object of a dying man: visual beauty of the sight is confronted with feelings of fear, horror and death. Baseball glove is decorated with glass pearls that make it more beautiful but unfunctional… Gathered information raise new questions. Could pilgrimage be equaled with tourism, have a helmet and baseball glove taken a role of fetish, could pleasure today be reached only by synthetic narcotics, are grooming and tattoos necessary corrections of ugliness, and should the World finally be perfect and beautiful. Mass production shifted from the fulfillment of need to satisfaction of desires, correction of ugliness, beautification of the world. The sights we found in the Jiøí Černický works at first glance look like TV advertisements, video spots or enchanting commercials: does that imply that artist is no more than slick media manipulator? Diametrically opposite answers are within the nontransparent spaces of body, consciousness and subconsciousness. All the images and all of the knowledge incorporated within, have one center, body, simultaneously mighty and vulnerable. Body conceived through the prism of culture, society, politics, sex and religion. Skin\/screen\/surface, their visual seductiveness and desire towards ideal beauty and perfection often hide the real contemporary pains: suffering, manipulation, hunger, death. In the time when pilgrimage is no more than profitable tourism and the meaningless object of the collective ritual and frenzy, synthetic pleasure and trade with dead souls and live people global business, culture commercial product and death just one more branch of enterprise; what might be a position of the artist, one among many creators of images. Highly developed technologies and production of the beautified reality are universal phenomena that dictates lives of the consumer mass thorough the aggressive seductiveness. Individual with his problems and happiness is object of assault and more vulnerable than ever. Černický, according to his personal agenda is trying to create seemingly impossible effect: combination of the visual aspect of the industrial design with something he calls notorious humanity. His aim is to position all typical characteristics of human nature: emotions (sorrow, happiness, fear), death and sickness, under the dead and immaculately designed surface. His intent is to infect industrial design with the vital beauty of human misery and imperfection. That is not easy at all; the armor of the Industry is far more powerful than artist’s skill. But, in my opinion, Černický has succeeded.<\/p>\n

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Darko Simicic<\/em> <\/p>\n

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Jiøí Černický <\/p>\n

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1993 – 97 Academy of Fine Arts in Prague 
1990 – 93 Academy of Applited Arts in Prague 
1987 – 90 Pedagogical Faculty in Ústí n. Labem 
1983 – 87 School of Applied Arts in Jablonec n. Nisou
Exhibits since 1987.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Notorious Humanity  Contemporary visual arts, in past as well as today, reflect the realities of life. Today’s frantic exchange of the images on the screen dictates our everyday reflection and behavior. History is reduced to the short segment of time, lasting as long as the still frame exists. Each and every preceding image and its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}