In the Studio Andrej Dúbravský, Rastislavice, Slovakia
Where to meet art, culture and creativity
METABOLICA leads us into the factory of life and tells a molecular story of metabolic cycles across five chapters – from the Industrial Revolution to the present and future, from whaling and the petromodern age to current and emerging scenarios of the bioeconomy. Algae and bacteria become artistic collaborators, forming a new visual and aesthetic practice through microbiological processes.
Born in Linz in 1971, Tobias Pils is among the most exciting painters working today. Employing a heavily reduced color palette, he creates paintings and drawings that weave abstract and representational elements into associative pictorial worlds. What in terms of subject matter can be interpreted as an investigation of both elementary and personal themes like birth and death or becoming and passing, also negotiates central questions in painting at large. For in Pils’ visual cosmos, one painterly mark leads to the next, one image to another, as if painting were constantly staging its own death and rebirth.
Máret Ánne Sara, Kautokeino, Norway
In the Sámi culture, reindeer play a core role in almost every aspect of living. For artist Máret Ánne Sara the skulls and other body parts of these animals, mostly dead, are the center of her work.
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