Crystal Chain

/exhibition architecture/author Jakub Kopec, co-author and curator Lucia Tkáčová/photo Ján Kekeli, Ján Viazanička/Jozef Kollár Gallery, Banská Štiavnica/2019

The architecture of the exhibition interprets the work of Wenzel Hablik, an influential member of the expressionist movement Crystal Chain. The colorful and compositional motifs of the painting of the dining room of his own house in Itzehoe, Germany, underwent analysis and re-synthesis to give rise to a new distinctive fantasy space within the space of exhibition hall. Synthetically hallucinogenic, stimulating as well as making uncertain, creating a soft textile background for the chain of exposed videos with similarly ambivalent content.