Jiri Svestka Gallery is hosting a joint exhibition by young Slovakian artist Katarína Poliačiková and renowned American photographer Stephen Shore at its new premises at the center of Prague. The curator is Jiri Svestka. This exhibition reflects the gallery’s motto of introducing Central European artists in the international arena and simultaneously exploring the linkage between artists of different generations, namely Katarina Poliacikova and Stefen Shore. This exhibition opens to the viewers a part of Shore’s famous road-trip images “Uncommon Places.”The style of creations of both the artists are similar: randomness and commonplaceness on the one hand and aesthetic interpretation of our everyday world on the other hand; although they do not flinch from showcasing the ugly realities of life.Shore’s photographs shown in the exhibition present an overall image of America in the 1970s. Katarína Poliačiková’s images tell us stories about our lives. “The latest work by Katarína Poliačiková, whether it be photographs or objects, appear as if we are picking the remarkable details from Shore’s universe and giving them a new life,” says curator of the exhibition Jiří Švestka. “Sometimes it is on the image level, sometimes on the formal level, but there’s always some kind of defamiliarizating perspective. Poliačiková is one of the most interesting Slovak artists of the new, post-Roman Ondák generation.”Katarína Poliačiková was born in 1982 and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. Her works have been exhibited in Prague, Bratislava, Berlin, New York, Lisbon and other cities. She works with versatile media: installation, video and object. Stephen Shore was born in 1947 in America. He is a pioneer in use of color in art photography. Shore spent the 1970s crisscrossing the country to assemble his two best known bodies of work — “American Surfaces” and “Uncommon Places.” In words of another New York photographer, Joel Sternfeld: “What may ultimately beat stake in his pictures is the pure condition of sight itself.”Katarina Poliačiková | Stephen Shore’s exhibition is on display from November 16, 2017, through January 20, 2018, at Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague.For details visit: http://www.jirisvestkagallery.com/Click on the slide show to have a sneak peek of the artist’s work.
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