Peter Fabo — Heaven on Earth

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Václav Špála Gallery

The exhibition Heaven on Earth is a pervasive evocation of diversity that both creates and spontaneously reflects a sense of the present. The irrationality of cracks and in-between spaces embodies sight. It refers to its vulnerability, which threatens when attentively "looking", when "seeing".

The melancholy of the unplaces and forgotten folds in which something is encapsulated is drowned out by sonorous gestures. Logos and emoticons overlay the world of dirt. A diamond as hard as power, a banana as soft as a man. Heaven on earth (English translation) can be perceived in sharp ambivalence. Serious, ironic and visionary. Visionary, but rather hopeless – as the collapse of the vault of heaven, in whose rubble something new may be born.

Peter Fabo works with photography as an impulsive tool of compulsive registration. It is either external or internal. For the external, he uses appropriations of real situations with all possible crude descriptiveness, which subliminally settle in human consciousness and tick there like a feverish doubt in the temples or a waiting, well-placed detonator. The second type of registration – internal – takes into account the processes of creation itself, the current surging outwards. A valve that collapses under pressure. Here the author delves into the technological process of photographic “materialization” of the image. He merges with it. He himself becomes the substance, the medium, the developer and the material to be valorised. For the immediacy of recording, the most suitable medium is the photogram. Because it is about the authenticity of expression, which is born out of a kind of manic self-ritual, the form is secondary. Peter Fabo talks about the dirty path of technology in which he places his gestures, images and messages.

 

Curator: Petr Vaňous

 

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