Jiří Staněk / Noise 1

8 June – 11 August 2024
White Unicorn Gallery (Galerie U Bílého jednorožce), Klatovy, CZ
Curator: Jiří Machalický

Jiří Staněk works with repeating elements, signs, and symbols. He experiments with various paints and pigments, and sometimes layers his reliefs made of folded paper or even casts them in plaster. In his installations, he works with the relationship to the given space. He makes use of various kinds of lighting, which plays an important role in his work. His art also draws on sound, an approach that places him on the interface between two different fields that nevertheless can closely relate to one another. Each exhibition becomes a new work of art in which he contends with the relationship between various parts and the whole. He naturally follows on certain tendencies from th past, in particular concretism and minimalism, two artistic styles that pay attention to strict order. But he also draws on art informel and its use of gesture. Despite its focus on order, his art is free, and he can vary his shapes in response ti his imagination. The placement of his objects creates a strange rhythm depending on their mutual interaction.