painting, post-production, Ivo Sumec

malba, postprodukce, Ivo Sumec

In this contribution, sumec’s work is confronted by a paratactic placement of metaphorical and metaphorising theses of existential character not only in the sense of their representative manifestation, or power expression, but also in the spirit of the most ordinary moments whose metaphysical essences emerge in front of the audience as lines, shapes or a spatial sketch materialised, inter alia, by asphalt, tar and coal dust, or dematerialised, for example, by salt, rust and mould. as the selected semantic marks are read and then cognitively extended, the initial visual apparatus is represented as a re-definition of traditional questions: What is art? Who is the artist?