Michal Černušák - LET YOUR TROUBLES OUT
KROKUS Galéria, Bratislava
Krokus Gallery is pleased to present the solo exhibition of a young Slovak artist Michal Černušák called "Let your troubles out". Černušák (born in 1982 in Zvolen, Slovakia) studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (in the studio of Prof. Ivan Csudai) where he is currently doing his PhD. studies. In 2007 he was awarded a Special Prize at Essl Award CEE, in 2009 he became a finalist of VÚB Painting Prize. His works are included in many major collections at home and abroad (GMB, Sammlung Essl, ECB Collection, Wannieck Gallery etc.) The author lives and works in Bratislava. The current exhibition shows his latest body of work.
The centre of attention for the artist has been a growing globalization of a contemporary society that brings radical changes into the spheres of communication, technology and science. Černušák works with media outputs, news or newspaper articles and all information for which conspiracy theories or brainwashing have become commonplace. Drawing references to science and religion, two competing systems that control our knowledge and offer different worldviews the artist raises our awareness to the structures that aim to monopolize the distribution of information in a modern knowledge society.
The life in a contemporary world is complex. Michal Černušák is an artist being aware of it and his rather demanding visual language reflects the complexities of the world today. In his monumental compositions the artist draws the historical references to the periods of a renaissance and baroque while applying airbrush technique that has its origins in a car industry and advertising. Coloured and stained surface is combined with a severed mode of painting. Černušák re-uses the tradition and brings it together with the new forms stemming from a digital age, some of his paintings flash like advertising light boxes. The same principle of layering that rules his technique and painterly approach also governs the story based upon the narrative fragments. Seeing them one cannot help but ask: “Which figure is a real hero and which just figures in someone else story following its interests?”
Gabriela Kisová
invitation
The life in a contemporary world is complex. Černušák is an artist being aware of it and his rather demanding visual language reflects the complexities of the world today. In his monumental compositions the artist draws the historical references to the periods of a renaissance and baroque while applying airbrush technique that has its origins in a car industry and advertising... 