GUEST
VIKTOR FUČEK
Author of the photo: Ján Kostolanský
Viktor Fuček vo svojej tvorbe analyzuje tematiku zložitých pradív ľudských vzťahov a príbehov v širokom spektre výtvarného výrazu, siahajúceho od spriadania vlákien v závesnom obraze až po performatívne gestá. Ide o hľadanie možných interpretácií súčasnej posthumanistickej ontológie, ktorá sa ponúka ako alternatíva k súčasnému prístupu v antropocéne, črtajúcu líniu úniku v podobe nečakaných asambláží hmoty, ideí, dát. Práve posthumánna teória ukazuje, že problémom je celý čas „človek“, ako kategória, ideál, predpoklad, norma. Preto autor využíva a akceleruje tendenciu brať na seba rôzne, často nečakané podoby. Nedokončenosť, premenlivosť, neistota zacielenia, sú niektoré prívlastky, ktoré popisujú nielen jeho tvorbu, ale tiež naznačujú možnosti vývoja samotnej posthumánnej situácie.
Viktor Fuček’s work analyzes the themes of complex skeins of human relationships and stories in a wide spectrum of artistic expression, ranging from fiber spinning in a hanging painting to performative gestures. It is an exploration of possible interpretations of a contemporary posthumanist ontology that offers itself as an alternative to the current approach in the Anthropocene, drawing a line of escape in the form of unexpected assemblages of matter, ideas, and data. It is the posthumanist theory that shows that the problem all along has been ‘human’, as a category, an ideal, an assumption, a norm. Therefore, the author exploits and accelerates the tendency to take on different, often unexpected forms. Incompleteness, mutability, uncertainty of targeting, are some of the adjectives that not only describe his artwork, but also suggest the possibilities of the development of the posthuman situation itself.
EDUCATION
2019 – 2021 ArtD, Department of Intermedia and Digital media at Academy of Arts, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia | 2021 Angewandte Performance Lab, University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria, Scholarship | 2007 – 2012 MgA., Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Czech Republic | 2010 Studio IN, AFAD, Bratislava, Slovakia, Scholarship | 2009 School of Arts, Australian national University, Canberra, Australia, Scholarship | 1995 – 2001 Ing. Arch., Faculty of Architecture, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
AWARDS
2019 – Bloomers Award nominee | 2018 – Novum Foundation – Finalist | 2015 – Oskar Čepan Artprize of Slovak emerging artist – Finalist | 2014 – Arte Laguna Artprize, Venice – Finalist
Prices of the artworks – Viktor Fuček