The Rise and Fall of a Quantum Brat
Lumir Hladik at Nevan Contempo, Prague / April -July 2022 / curator. Pavel Svec All my life, I hear that science has triumphed. Since I was 10 years old, I was told that humanity is very close to a full understanding of the laws of nature. Yet, 120 years elapsed since the discovery of quantum mechanics, 70 years since we heard about quantum biology and 30 years since we got introduced to quantum consciousness. Let’s [.....]
Ritualia
Modernfuel Artcentre, Kingston / January 14 - February 24, 2018 / curated by Matthew Kyba According to theorist Jane Bennett, our culture is widely understood to be devoid of a sense of enchantment, which is the experience of being “struck and shaken by the extraordinary that lives amid the familiar and the everyday.” Using different strategies to symbolize modern-day rituals, artists Lumir Hladik, Dagmara Genda, Anna [.....]
Jiří Kovanda / Lumír Hladík – Polar Transference
21.09 - 11.12.2017 Gallery1718 Ottawa Canada How do critical discourse and grand narratives become transferred over global distances to be understood between people? The cultural“Zeitgeist”, a propped up promise of fully encompassing universal modes of thought, usually fares as an enticing ideal that never fully matures. Yet even though thousands of kilometers separated them, artists Jiří Kovanda and Lumír [.....]
NEEDLES
NEEDLES On December 29. 2013, on a sidewalk near my studio, I picked up two discarded Xmas trees. After I dressed up their trunk stumps with gauze, I kept them, in a secluded, safe space outdoors. Once they have lost all their needles, I fully wrapped the trees with gauze. It took them 917 days to loose all their needles. INTERVENTION / INSTALLATION Location – The Junction, Toronto, Canada 2013 - 2016 Photo [.....]
GARGOYLES
LUMIR HLADIK AT WALNUT CONTEMPORARY,TORONTO,CANADA / OCTOBER 22 - DECEMBER 8, 2016 curated by Ibérina (Raquel) Vilhena, music by Jacob Soma of PROGRAMM, soprano by Alessandra Paonessa GARGOYLES Gargoyles are a celebration of the Kosmos’ unity in complexity, a mockery of ignorance of ignorance as well as a despisement of the human mind’s erring mentation and disorienting languaging.Gargoyles are opening the bizarre, [.....]
Lumír Hladík and Matyáš Chochola at GAVU – museum of fine arts – city of Cheb, Czech Republic
Colours Totalitarian Czechoslovakia jiggling incessantly on tender wavelets of shades of gray. Primeval forests, shopping centers, the ocean, Costa Rica, Munich, gold mines in Ontario, a gallery in Chelsea, an aboriginal dump site and its proprietor, selling bear skulls, vistas of uncontrolled color explosions all the way from the almighty mammon’s usurpation of one’s attention via advertising politics of the world [.....]
LUMIR HLADIK – “BASTA!”, SEPTEMBER 21 – NOVEMBER 4, 2014
Elements and methods used: aspen branches, diapers, steel pipe, young pine trunks, wood, deer fur, tropical wood eroded by ocean water, acrylic paint and gauze. BASTA! is the fourth installation piece of Lumir Hladik presented by corridor213, following the display of “The Great White” and “Pining in White”, BASTA! is the darkest of his VANITAS series. This installation consists mostly of “treated” natural [.....]
RYAN BRIGGS – “BELOW AND BEYOND” –, JULY 19 – 27, 2014
Ryan Brigg’s first exhibit at Corridor 213 consists of three oil paintings. The largest, titled “ Nothing serious” is quite an anomaly in his oeuvre, for it is the largest canvas he ever painted. BRIGGS is, however, no stranger to large surfaces. His previous artistic life included several years of graffiti work and this experience has, in our opinion, paid off. BRIGGS is a portrait artist, and… a very unusual one. [.....]
LUMIR HLADIK – “PINING IN WHITE”, JUNE 3 – JUNE 11, 2014
Elements and methods used: native (Canadian) beaver pelt stretchers, rope, vintage horse bit, cedar wood knot, steel pipe, vintage wallpaper, acrylic paint and gauze. ‘Pining in White’ is the third installation piece of Lumir Hladik presented by corridor213, following the display of “The Great White” in January 2014.Yet another dark and puzzling sequel of his VANITAS series, this new installation consists of [.....]
ANNA PANTCHEVA – “INFINITE TRANSFORMATIONS” –, MARCH 28 – APRIL 1, 2014
Anna Pantcheva's first exhibit at Corridor 213 consists of 3 oil paintings paired with a set of 4 drawings from her on-going works on paper series titled "Fly Fishing Sirens" – the result of Pantcheva’s daily practice of automatic drawing. Urged by an insatiable drive for on-going discovery, she reaches beyond our standard subconscious through uninhibited mark making and penetrates the realm of meta-consciousness. We [.....]
KAL MANSUR – “PRELUDES” –, March 7 – 11, 2014
Kal Mansur is a visual artist specializing in acrylic sculpture. His work is borne out of a love of architecture and kinship with Minimalism. He deconstructs the functionality of light and space, encapsulating them in familiar yet unrecognizable objects. Contrary to standard architectural practices that divide space in order to create habitable voids, his sculptures fill voids with tactility. Mansur’s second corridor213 [.....]
JULIAN MICHAEL MAJEWSKI – “THANKYOUF..KYOU” –, February 22 – 28, 2014
Julian Majewski’s work experiments with compositions displayed as contemporary installations created through varying elements of sculpture, graphic elements, video projections, sound and commercial processes. His work could be categorized as urban grunge, offering a wide dose of ambiguity and context. Majewski’s first corridor213 exhibit consists of four “confined”, 3D graffiti assemblages. His repurposed, grimy, [.....]
LUMIR HLADIK – THE GREAT WHITE, January 18-20, 2014
Elements used: vintage bedpan filled with milk, handmade silk flower girl dress (9 month), burled pine trunk from a forest fire near Timmins, Ontario; grouse feathers and gauze. ‘The Great White’ is the second installation piece of Lumir Hladik presented by corridor213, following the display of ‘White is Good’ (September 6-9, 2013). Similar to his first “White” exhibit, the artist dives into the ambiguity of [.....]
JACQUELINE TRELOAR – “THE CHILD” – CROWNS FOR THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN, November 18 – 20, 2013
Elements used: Canvas, paper, beads, stitching, trinkets and decorations from southern Spain, images taken in the Santa Maria la Blanca synagogue in Toledo, the Mezquita in Cordova, the Plaza de Toros de la Real Maestranza, the Archeological museum and Real Alcazar gardens in Seville, and the Nasrid palaces and Generalife gardens in Granada. Jacqueline Treloar’s “Crowns for the Queen of Heaven” is an [.....]
KAL MANSUR – KRYSTAL KLASH, October 6 – 8, 2013
Acrylic sculpture Civilization-forming angles and rhythms collide with natural symmetries: an intense dialog between axiomatic principles in both “mass and light”. Kal Mansur is a visual artist specializing in acrylic sculpture. His work is borne out of a love of architecture and kinship with Minimalism.For many, the materials chosen limit the artist’s creation. Kal Mansur is an exception. He has broken the limit [.....]
LUMIR HLADIK – WHITE IS GOOD, September 6 – 9, 2013
Elements used: vintage 19th century scythe with a wheat cradle, gauze, wild blueberry juice, vintage bedpan and milk. Two decades ago, in his early action art oeuvre, Lumir used derailed situations to get his message across. In his current work he is derailing objects and histories. White is Good installation at _Corridor213 is an example of this formula. The antique scythe is a bizarre object to begin with, with a [.....]